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.
‘Overcomer’ movie: What defines you?
ORLANDO, FL (ANS) What defines who you are? Your job? Your spouse, your partner, your accomplishments? Does your sense of well-being and satisfaction come...
HBO’s ‘Alternate Endings’ doc: How do you want to die?
ORLANDO, FL (ANS) Got your burial plot picked out yet? How 'bout your casket? Planning on cremation? So where will your ashes go? A...
In her near-death experience, Jesus and Satan disputed over her life
At a summer swim party with her youth group after church, the unthinkable happened to Steffani Besch. A young
prankster gave her a shove as...
Algeria: Church grows 50-fold in 10 years
The world’s largest Arab country, once home to the Phoenicians, Romans, Ottomans, and French is now home to a
growing number of Christian believers, despite...
The day a reporter of little faith met a boxer of...
At first, L.A. Times reporter Dylan Hernandez was shocked by the size of the breakfast gathering arranged by Filipino
boxer and senator Manny Pacquiao. Then...
‘Emanuel’: Steph Curry movie documents Charleston church shooting forgiveness
ORLANDO, FL (ANS) Do the frequency and horror of mass shootings ever overwhelm you? Sometimes my mind struggles to process the details: Virginia Beach,...
Christian mom let son decide his religion; he chose Islam, joined...
Canadian mom Christianne Boudreau let her son Damian explore other faiths as he grew up in Calgary, Alberta.
“I have always been a firm believer...
After missionary plane crashed in Bering Sea off Alaska, God brought...
They called it the “Miracle on the Hudson” when Captain Sully Sullenberger landed his US Airways flight on a
placidly flowing Hudson River in 2009...
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...