Source: Assemblies of God Missions, May 6, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Civil Air Patrol Capt. Leia Eisenhower says her father\u2019s church planting efforts led to her own innovative spiritual path: an online Instagram discipleship ministry reaching over 100,000 people with the gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eisenhower, 47, grew up in Bahia, Brazil. Her father, Eugenio Felix, launched more than 30 churches and also served as an Assemblies of God presbyter in South America\u2019s largest nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy father taught me that I couldn\u2019t just read the Bible. I needed to explain it,\u201d she says. Eisenhower says God answered her father\u2019s prayers for her by calling her to ministry at the age of 14. She went on to attend Assemblies of God Brazilian Theological Seminary and served as a Brazilian missionary before coming to the United States in 2002 [and eventually became a chaplain in the Civil Air Patrol, currently based in New York].<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eisenhower wrote a book in 2019 called My Neighbors: The Theology of Relationships<\/a>. The book, available in Spanish, Bemba, and English, uses the parable of the Good Samaritan to discuss relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After [a] pandemic lock down, Eisenhower looked for the best way to teach classes based on her book. She chose Instagram\u2019s platform for its worldwide reach and accessibility of communication through direct messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI started to record a class with the Bible as my foundation, and the discipleship part began growing so fast I had to assign people to do things,\u201d she says. \u201cI began recording the class in different languages and having it translated. Every night I would get on Instagram and do a midnight prayer live.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Within a year, she says over 100,000 people followed her discipleship messages and more than 100 have accepted Christ as Savior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more on the ministry of military chaplains, see Burkina Faso\u2019s Seven Army Chaplains Struggle Amid Jihadist Attacks<\/a> (Christianity Today).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Assemblies of God Missions, May 6, 2021 Civil Air Patrol Capt. Leia Eisenhower says her father\u2019s church planting efforts led to her own innovative spiritual path: an online Instagram discipleship ministry reaching over 100,000 people with the gospel. Eisenhower, 47, grew up in Bahia, Brazil. Her father, Eugenio Felix, launched more than 30 churches … Continue reading USA: Trailblazing Chaplain Makes Disciples Through Instagram<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10160,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10155\/revisions\/10160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}