Mark Ellis
Mark Ellis worked in the commercial real estate industry before he answered a call into full-time Christian ministry. For 9 years, he served as Asst. Pastor at Church by the Sea in Laguna Beach. He began writing about the church around the world in 1999 with the assistance of Dan Wooding of ASSIST News. After a mission trip to the southern Philippines in 2004, God gave him the vision for the God Reports website, which supports and encourages Christian Missions. He also serves on the boards of Morning Star News and the Birtcher Family Foundation.
Angels protected pioneer missionaries in Tibet
When Russell Morse and his wife Gertrude first went into “the closed land” of Tibet in the 1920s, they traveled on pack animals and...
CNN’s ‘Redemption Project’: Could you forgive your loved-one’s killer?
ORLANDO, FL (ANS) When someone offends you, do you get even? Ignore? Seek to reconcile? Suppose their offense were killing your loved one or...
‘Amazing Grace’ movie: recording Aretha Franklin’s best-selling album
ORLANDO, FL (ANS) After the Queen of Soul's 2018 death, her family released the long-mothballed 1972 documentary about recording her bestselling album at a...
‘Breakthrough’ movie: Miracle on Ice?
ORLANDO, FL (ANS) Ever meet someone who died…and lived to tell about it? Breakthrough tells a startling, back-from-the-brink recovery story that's sure to leave...
Best of Enemies movie: Klan leader, black activist; race, religion, reconciliation
ORLANDO, FL (ANS) What happens when you assign a Ku Klux Klan president and a Black civil rights activist – in the racially charged...
‘Palau’ movie: Big dreams, remembering roots
ORLANDO, FL (ANS) When you see a famous and popular person on television, in the movies, or in person, the glow of success can...
History Channel’s ‘Jesus’ TV series: Who was he, really?
ORLANDO, FL - Jesus is one of history's most controversial personalities. Was he a good man spreading love and peace? A rabble-rouser stirring rebellion? ...
Midwife at Auschwitz delivered 3,000 babies, watched infanticide
This Polish midwife was ordered to murder all the babies she delivered at Auschwitz. With God’s help she was able
to rescue a few from...
Van Gogh film, ‘At Eternity’s Gate,’ unknowingly displays Christian themes
Filmmaker Julian Schnabel’s immersive film about the final years of Vincent Van Gogh’s life portrays the artist’s
descent into madness, even as his artistic achievements...
Run the Race movie: dreams, despair, romance, redemption
ORLANDO, FL (ANS) Ever had a dream die? Or a loved one? Perhaps you struggle with why bad things sometimes happen to good people. ...