For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
Living the Book of Acts – Pastor Chris Fletcher’s Message
About this episode
Pastor Chris Fletcher of Manna Church joins Philip Cameron for a wide-ranging conversation about living with an eternal perspective, radical obedience, and what it truly means to be the hands and feet of Jesus in the 21st century. Manna Church, headquartered in Fayetteville, North Carolina — home to Fort Bragg, the largest U.S. military installation in the world — has planted campuses in 21 states, with a vision to establish a gospel presence near every U.S. military base worldwide. Chris unpacks the danger of shrinking God's purposes down to the span of a single lifetime, drawing on Jeremiah 29:11 in its full context — a letter written to God's people in exile — to challenge the idea that blessing is only for "this little blip of time." He reminds listeners that "our arms can't even wrap around eternity," and that Paul's arrest in Jerusalem was, in fact, the center of God's will. The conversation turns practical as Chris describes Manna Church's "Serve Days," where red-shirted volunteers flood their city with acts of service, proving that "there's no such thing as small outreach" — even a water bottle handed to a stranger can alter someone's eternal destiny. If you're near Fayetteville, North Carolina, visit Manna Church at www.mannachurch.com. Let this episode expand your eternal vision.
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Quotes worth sharing
“The craziest thing is that God might be pulling you in a direction that you don't want to go. And it may be the very thing that God's got for you.”
“A missionary couple spent years on the mission field and they retired and came home by steamer. And when they got to New York Harbor, there was a marching band. And as they're watching this marching band, they're thinking someone's come to meet them. But a movie personality was carried shoulder high past them down the gangway to where the marching band was. And everyone went away. And the man and his wife with a little tired suitcase walked down the ramp. And he said to his wife, I never thought this would be the end. And the Lord said to him, 'You are not home yet, son. You are not home. Wait until you get home. If you think this marching band's a big deal, wait until you get home.'”
“Fasting today does not lead to necessarily a breakthrough in 12 minutes. Sometimes it leads to a breakthrough in 12 years.”
What's Discussed
Pastor Chris Fletcher, senior leader of Manna Church — based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, adjacent to Fort Bragg — discusses the church's vision to plant campuses near every U.S. military installation in the world, a mission that has already reached 21 states. Drawing on Jeremiah 29:11 in its full exile context and the example of Paul's arrest in Jerusalem, Fletcher argues that God's purposes extend far beyond a single lifetime. He challenges believers to adopt an eternal lens, warning against chasing 'big bang magical moments' while neglecting faithful daily obedience. He also highlights Manna Church's annual 'Serve Days,' where volunteers mobilize across their city, demonstrating that no act of outreach — even handing someone a water bottle — is too small to carry eternal significance.
- Manna Church Vision and Military Planting Strategy
- Kicking and Screaming Into Your Destiny
- Jeremiah 29:11 and the Eternal Context of Blessing
- Paul in Jerusalem: God's Will in Unexpected Places
- Light and Momentary Affliction Through an Eternal Lens
- The Missionary Couple Parable: You Are Not Home Yet
- No Such Thing as Small Outreach and Serve Days
- Faithful Small Beginnings and Long-Term Fruit
Scripture in this episode
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Hey, welcome to Daily Faith Today. My name is Philip Cameron, and I am delighted to have you with us. God has a purpose and a plan for your life. I am — the older I get, and I'm now in my 70th year and I can hardly believe it, but the older I get, the more Calvinistic I become.
Philip:In other words, not hyper Calvinism, but I do believe that God has a plan, that he is working all things together for my good, that he guides me and protects me and leads me. And if you and I could only understand how much God is in control and how much he loves you and how much it is his desire to bless you, I think we could relax more in our walk with the Lord. I've got news for you. You are not holding onto him. He's holding onto you.
Philip:I've got this darling little granddaughter. She's driving me crazy. Her name is Annabelle. And she just — she is the princess of the whole family. She's got us all completely snowed. It's embarrassing, actually. And we'll go out somewhere and the thrill of my heart is I'll put my hand down and I'll just leave my finger dangling and she'll grab my hand with my one finger. And she's going along beside her granddad, wherever we're walking. And she just thinks she's holding onto this little finger.
Philip:If only she knew my eyes and my heart and my mind are all concentrated on her. And I've got news for you. God's got a hold of you. There's a chorus that I never can get out of my mind. It sings inside my spirit all the time. He works in ways I cannot see. He will make a way for me. And I mean to prophesy and talk past your circumstance, past your pain, past your disappointment, that he is working in ways you cannot see. Trust him.
Philip:And if you trust him, do you know that trust is the highest form of faith? I can get my faith all worked up, you know, I'm believing God for this. Let me tell you what real faith is. I trust you, Lord. You got this. I may not see anything on the outside, but I know that you are working on my behalf.
Philip:And I wanna tell you that God loves you. You can take this to the bank. God loves you with a love that will never let you go. He will not let you go. He's gonna see you all the way through to the end. And you're gonna live in victory. And I pray over you today in the name of Jesus that peace will be your portion, that grace will fill your heart, that you'll know that he works in ways — say it out loud — he works in ways I cannot see. He will make a way for me.
Philip:Oh, well, that's been on my heart ever since I grew up early this morning. Share this broadcast if you will. Help us. I keep getting things from Facebook telling me that because of the high standard and call of your program, we're expanding your view. And that's very nice. But the quickest way to expand our view is you doing it by liking the program and sharing it. And there's a bell on your screen — if you activate that bell, when we start Daily Faith it'll ding on your device and you will join us.
Philip:We've got a great friend with us today, Chris Fletcher. He and I — he's been our guest many times on the program, but we have a passion for football. Now, I'm not talking about the paddy waddy ball that you all play in America. That's not the kind of football. This is the kind of football that God likes, and that is the real football. And we both are agonizing over our home team called Manchester United. They're abysmal right now. And they used to be the greatest in the world. And now they're getting beaten by fourth division teams.
Philip:It's absolutely — he works in ways I cannot see. Maybe that's where the song's coming from. He works in ways I cannot see. He's telling me that Manchester United — he is gonna heal Manchester United.
Philip:Oh, Philip, behave yourself. Daily Faith is on YouTube and you need to go and subscribe there and help us grow those numbers. We've kind of neglected that. And I produce every couple of days some reels, just thoughts that God gives me. And folk really appreciate the input on their life and the blessing that these are for them. And our home base is called Daily Faith. And you can go to YouTube — it's YouTube, Daily Faith, or you can go directly to dailyfaith.org. And our programs are there and these reels are there.
Philip:Listen, I'm delighted to have you with us. You're gonna love Chris Fletcher. He's gonna be talking about the church of which you are part. Football teams may come and go, may rise and fall. Dear Jesus, I'm asking, Lord, please help my United. Amen. But I wanna tell you something, he is gonna reach his church, his bride, and the gates of hell will not prevail against us. So stay with us. Welcome to Daily Faith.
Philip:Hey, welcome to Daily Faith. My name is Philip Cameron and I am so pleased to have you with us today. We have got a great program, a great man of God with us today. Chris Fletcher pastors Manna Church. It has campuses in 21 states. How crazy is that? And we're going to talk about the church. And I believe that God's gonna give you a word if you're a pastor, or if you love your pastor, you need to give them a call and say, hey, listen, tune Daily Faith in. And they can get us on the device, dailyfaith.tv.
Philip:I think that is correct, Andrew. Dailyfaith.tv. I've got a son that's behind this camera that I'm talking to just now. And he normally keeps me right, but this time he's failed in his task. But God loves him anyway. But we have got a great program for you. God's gonna speak to you. And I suggest that you call your pastor and say, hey, watch Daily Faith. They're gonna be talking about the church today.
Philip:And if you would, it'd be a blessing. 35 years ago, I adopted Andrew that I'm talking to right now. I had no idea that God was gonna put me on a lifetime's journey. My dad called me from Scotland and said that our baby is dying. And I said, what on earth are you talking about? And he told me about what he was watching on the BBC taking place in Romania when Nicolae Ceaușescu, the dictator, had been deposed and a revolution had freed the country from communism. And they discovered thousands, tens of thousands of orphans dying and starving in orphanages.
Philip:And the BBC was showing this long before America saw it. And my dad was recovering from a melanoma cancer, and there was a wound that burst on his back. And he could hardly move. Everything moved, the wound grew bigger. So they put a brace on him and all he could do was watch TV and call me. And he called me and he said that our baby's dying. And I said, leave it alone. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't wanna talk about it.
Philip:The next night he called me weeping. I said, dad, you are sick. I'm busy. Don't be upset. And then the next night he called me and said, I'm going by myself. If you won't go with me, if I go there by myself and I die, it's your fault. And he dragged me to Romania and he dragged me to my destiny.
Philip:The craziest thing is that God might be pulling you in a direction that you don't want to go. And it may be the very thing that God's got for you. It was for me. We go into this place — filthy place. The smell of human waste made me — I literally gagged and I was carrying — I dropped the box I was carrying, ran outside. And he came out and he said, get in there. I said, no, no, no, no, no, no. You wanted to see an orphanage. There you go. He said, these people live like this. Don't embarrass them. Get in. I said, no. I said, if I stay here, I'm innocent. If I went through those doors, I'm guilty.
Philip:And he grabbed me and he hauled me through the doors. And he said, well, you're gonna have to be guilty. I hated it. I walked around behind him and these babies rocking in their cribs covered in waste. And I'm thinking, oh, please God, just let me get out of this place. And he said, there's an upstairs. I said, no, no, no, no. We've seen enough here. Let's go. He said, no, let's go upstairs.
Philip:He went up the stairs with me walking behind him complaining. This is ridiculous. We've got 2,500 miles to drive home and you're making me walk around this place. It's the same upstairs as it is downstairs. This is nuts. And he kept on walking. Up at the top of the stairs, Salon Number Five written on the door. Opened the door, walked in, and I walk in behind him complaining and then walked past him, because he stopped when he saw the kids.
Philip:A glass wall and all the windows rattling because they hadn't been put in place with putty. And every time the door opened, everything rattled. It was terrible — freezing cold, filthy. And as I'm standing, I looked down this row of cribs and there's a little face, and the wee face is up, tiptoeing, looking back at me with his cheeks sucked in, looking at me.
Philip:And the Holy Ghost said, that's your son. And I went down and picked him out of the crib and said, I don't know who you are. I don't know how you got here, but I'm not gonna stop until I adopt you.
Philip:I said, look, dad, look at that. I said, oh, is that a bonny boy? I said, no, God wants him to be my son. You talk about life feeling like two kids. And I was done having any more kids. I was young. I wanted to travel with my wife. We had all the plan set out.
Philip:It took me a year to adopt him. But in that year, the roof leaked, apparently the beds were painted with lead paint. And by the end of the year, when I finally got him home — Andrew, the guy I am talking about, that's him. He's in the room with me right now as I'm talking to you — kicking and screaming towards my purpose. And you have a purpose with God that you may be kicking and screaming about. Don't fight God, because you can't.
Philip:And that began a 35-year journey that we are still on. And we rescue kids from being trafficked. One girl is worth $300,000 to the trafficker. They use them 30 to 50 times a day. And we've got this amazing place called Vatra Village. And these kids — there are parts of the year that we can take them in. And we've just had 20-plus girls come to Vatra Village.
Philip:And they come in literally carrying a bag, sometimes not even carrying a bag. And we tell them that if you're born, God has a plan, God has a purpose for you. Every girl you're looking at right now is worth $300,000 to a trafficker. And I think they're worth way more than that for the kingdom of God. And they just sent me a video of them coming in to Vatra Village. Watch this.
Philip:You are watching a miracle. You are watching a miracle. Those kids have been abused. We hear from their house parents once they come into the house and they start telling their stories. One of our house parents — and each house has got a house parent — he called me and said, dad, you should hear some of these new girls' stories. They come to us with nothing. And my wife is making, right next door to us right now, she makes big Rubbermaid tubs, and a whole wardrobe is in that tub. And they have a party, a welcome party. And that's what you're watching.
Philip:We need your help to continue this. We are expanding right now. We've just bought two new homes for little kids between the age of four and 16. A terrible thing happened. We took a girl in — we are allowed to have them 16 and older in Vatra. But they contacted us and said, there's this wee girl from a horrendous family background. Will you take her in? Her name was Maria. We took her in and then we had to put her back. She went back to her village. We drove her back to her village.
Philip:And within a week she was gang raped by 10 men, lost her mind. And the girl that drove her back, one of our staff, said, dad, I'll never do that again. I'll never drive a girl back to hell. And we've been looking and we found two homes. They'll hold 50 kids between the age of four and 16. And this will never happen again. And we need, for each house with this new ministry, 300 people to give a dollar a day.
Philip:You can change 50 kids' lives for $1 a day. And if you feel led to help us, you can contact us. We are still paying for these homes. We are $150,000 short right now of a payment for them. We're paying in stages — $600,000 total. And then we're gonna fix them. This first house is finished. It needs new furniture and a different paint job, because I can't stand that pink color. But the second house is unfinished and a one-time gift would be a tremendous help right now.
Philip:But if you could promise God to say, I'll help these kids hear the gospel and be kept safe from being abused, a dollar a day won't change your world, but it sure will theirs. You can contact us at Orphan's Hands, PO Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. It'll be up during the program or under my name right there. And you can also go to dailyfaith.tv and you can just give a gift online. It's a secure portal. If you dial 1-833-DAILY FAITH, a real life person will talk to you. You can make the difference in someone's life. Please pray about that today.
Philip:I am delighted to have Chris Fletcher with me today. He is a great friend and a great man of God, pastoring a church that is reaching and wrapping his arms around America. Chris, thank you for joining with us today. God bless you.
Chris Fletcher:Bless you too, pastor. It's good to be here always. Thanks for having me back.
Philip:Great to have you. Tell us, tell the folk about the church and your unique ministry that God's called you to.
Manna Church Vision and Military Planting Strategy
Chris Fletcher:So it's a vision that began — I served my dad. My dad was the senior pastor of Manna Church from 1985 until 2021. I served on his staff.
Philip:You're just like me. I'm in the mess I'm in because of my dad and you are in the mess you were in because of your dad. You were telling that story and I was thinking, yeah, if only everybody knew — suckered in by papa.
Chris Fletcher:Anyway, I served my father's vision. We're in Fayetteville, Fort Bragg, which is the largest US military installation in the world. And we are an ascending base — people come here. And so in 2014 we started, we believe the Lord spoke to my father to plant an expression of Manna Church near every US military installation in the world. And that's what we've been about. So we've been planting — planting in homes, planting in CrossFit gyms, planting in church buildings. My brother planted, a year and a half ago — really my brother stepped into a situation where we were able to help transition a church that was already there into a Manna Church. And so it's just been a wild ride.
Chris Fletcher:But I can really identify — I wanna honor you, Pastor Philip, for what you said a second ago about kicking and screaming into your destiny. I wanna honor that obedience in you and at the same time challenge people that there's more to that word than you realize. Because I've yet to meet people really doing something for the kingdom that don't have a little bit of that in their testimony.
Philip:True. It seems to be that every testimony includes some little bit of, I had another idea, I had another plan.
Chris Fletcher:And then the Lord showed up and said — Jesus in the garden would say, if there's any other way.
Philip:If there's any other way.
Chris Fletcher:But not my will.
Philip:Absolutely.
Chris Fletcher:But your will be done. That is the most dangerous and effective prayer that a believer can pray.
Philip:I was on TV. I'd preached, I'd written a book on household salvation. I was on every major television network. We were flying high. We'd fly out there on a Saturday afternoon, preaching on Sunday, fly home Sunday afternoon. I went to Hawaii for two weeks. I mean, I had clicked all my boxes. All my boxes were checked, until that blessed phone rang. And my dad said, there are babies dying. And that's the obedience. What we lack in the church today is that level of obedience.
Jeremiah 29:11 and the Eternal Context of Blessing
Chris Fletcher:Nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done. And this is something I'm pretty passionate about right now because of the challenge that people feel and the difficulty of the world in which we live. We tend to think of God moving and God's promise. So Jeremiah 29:11 is a great promise. He promises a future and a hope. But you don't often like to read the context of Jeremiah 29, which is a letter to his children in exile. There's gonna be another 70 years.
Chris Fletcher:Because I think that we think about our lives and even our blessing as if this is my life — 80 to a hundred years on the planet. My arms can't even wrap around eternity. So we take all this — God's plan and his purpose is not just for this little blip of time that you spend on the planet. It's for eternity.
Chris Fletcher:So I actually said to our church on Sunday, I sometimes wonder, do you want blessing to fit in this little tiny blip, or would you rather have blessing that you can't even wrap your arms around? Because we tend to think of purpose and we tend to think of call and we tend to think of all those things as if God requires my body to keep breathing in order for that to be accomplished.
Chris Fletcher:And so I think that's so true. When you look at what you just said, how many people would love that? Kinda reminds me of Paul in the first century, right before he goes to Jerusalem. Paul's got it all going on. He's planting churches, he's on Mars Hill preaching sermons. They're gonna put a plaque on that hill to commemorate his sermons forever. And yet he goes to Jerusalem because the Holy Spirit says, I have a plan for you. Now, how many of you think that the best place for God's super apostle to be is arrested and in chains?
Philip:Not a good place.
Chris Fletcher:That's the center of God's will.
Philip:Yeah.
Chris Fletcher:There are times where the center of God's will leads you into something that was not on the script, that was not on the plan. Because the blessing even that you think you're gonna get this side of eternity is not the fullness of what he has for you.
Philip:Yep. That is so true. And the thing is, we have our own prism and our own grasp and understanding of what we think God's will is for our life. And that is so powerful — that our world is this, compared to eternity. And we act as if this is the reality.
Philip:There's a cartoon — I don't know, it's a Dr. Seuss book. Horton Hears a Who. I don't remember, have you ever seen that film? And you've got this whole world — Whoville is on the top of this dandelion. And they think they are the center of the world. And they've got this big elephant looking at them because he's got big ears and he heard them having a marching band. And the church is like Whoville when God's saying, no, no, no, no, no, no. Expand your vision. It's a bigger deal than you think.
Chris Fletcher:It's a bigger deal than you think. Yeah. It's tough because it's hard to believe when you feel pain. It's hard to read scripture talking about our light and momentary affliction — that almost feels insulting sometimes.
Philip:Yeah.
Chris Fletcher:But that goes back to the viewpoint. If this is all there is, then light and momentary affliction — this isn't light and momentary. This is horrible and the end of the planet. But if that's not all there is, if this is not all there is, then it's really truly —
Paul in Jerusalem: God's Will in Unexpected Places
Philip:It puts this in perspective — light and momentary affliction.
Chris Fletcher:Because look, I have nice things. I have a wonderful marriage. I have wonderful children. I have a wonderful family. I have some great relationships. I have a garbage football team.
Philip:Garbage.
Chris Fletcher:But I have history with that football team. I have some wonderful memories and wonderful things. They're a blessing from God. But they pale in comparison to what he has for me in eternity.
Philip:Forever. Yeah.
Chris Fletcher:If we will live on this earth as signposts pointing to the king who is on the throne and the king that has come but will come in its fullness, if we lived all of our lives through the lens of the eternal, it would change everything.
Philip:The way — not the pain. We would still have pain, but it would change the way I experience that light and momentary affliction. It would change and shape the way that I thought about the world and what's happening.
Chris Fletcher:A missionary couple spent years on the mission field and they retired and came home by steamer. This is years and years ago. And when they got to New York Harbor, there was a marching band. And as they're watching this marching band — there are a whole bunch of people down there — they're thinking someone's come to meet them. But a movie personality was carried shoulder high past them down the gangway to where the marching band was. And everyone went away. And the man and his wife with a little tired suitcase walked down the ramp.
Chris Fletcher:And he said to his wife, I never thought this would be the end. And the Lord said to him, you are not home yet, son. You are not home. Wait until you get home. If you think this marching band's a big deal, wait until you get home.
Chris Fletcher:And we tend to think that it's all about this gangplank and that marching band. But the truth of the matter is that it's way beyond this gangplank and that marching band. It's eternity. And what we're doing — what you do watching us today — if you catch what God's speaking to you today through us, that you can make an eternal difference, not just a momentary glitch, but an eternal difference for the kingdom of God, by realizing that there is an eternal kingdom in the kingdom of God.
No Such Thing as Small Outreach and Serve Days
Philip:That's right. And I tell our church all the time, you know, if we're called to be the hands and feet of Jesus, for many people their first experience of the kingdom is because your feet got you in the proximity to give them your hands.
Light and Momentary Affliction Through an Eternal Lens
Chris Fletcher:Absolutely. If people's first experience with Jesus is you being his hands and his feet, then we need to grab a hold of the moment that he has given us. And there's no such thing as small outreach.
Chris Fletcher:We have big serve days — we call them serve days. We do three a year where we put on red shirts, so we've got a uniform. But we take to the city and we just do whatever thing our city needs. Whatever we'll do, we do anything on that day. And the thing to remember is it sometimes feels like, why am I cleaning up this park? How could this possibly be the hands and feet of Jesus? And I'll remind our church every single time we do this, guys, there's no such thing as small outreach. You have no idea the number of people over the years who've come and said, I was lost, there was all manner of things going on, and someone handed me a water bottle.
The Missionary Couple Parable: You Are Not Home Yet
Philip:A water bottle.
Chris Fletcher:Yeah. Can be the step into a conversation that changes someone's eternal destiny. There's no such thing as small outreach. There's no such thing as, I wanted to do this with my Sunday afternoon, but then I read this and so I made a choice to do something seemingly insignificant that altered someone's eternal destiny. That happens more than you realize.
Chris Fletcher:Because even though we wanna live with an eternal view, there's only one who's currently living with the eternal view. And that ain't us. That's him.
Philip:That's the truth. Oh my gracious me. That is the truth. As you're talking, I was thinking — when I was a kid, how I started was every Sunday afternoon after Sunday service in our church in Scotland, we would fast our lunch and we would go to little villages and set up a PA system and I would have a street service and I would sing and preach. And some of the young folk that the Lord came with me — and I had no idea when I was there.
Philip:And then on Sunday night at midnight, the boats went out — the fishing boats, the fleet left. So I'd go down to the harbor and sing to the boats going out, let the lower lights be burning, or there's a lighthouse on the hillside. And I'd sing and I'd preach the gospel to these boats. I had no idea in those days that these days existed. I had no idea that I would be on nationwide TV and I'd own my own studio and do all this mission work.
Philip:I had no clue of that. All I knew was that my car had a battery and I got this little amp that I bought and a microphone and two little tinny speakers that I put on the roof of my car. And that was my only reality at that moment.
Chris Fletcher:But if you're faithful there, that's when your return expands. Outreach is a two-sided coin. We typically think of one side of the coin — it's my job to share my faith. That is true. At the same time, the other side of the coin is when I share my faith, the Lord does something in my life equally as he does something in their life. Because what I can't forget is the time and training now, the time on my knees now, the time in preparation now, the time in my prayer closet now. Fasting today does not lead to necessarily a breakthrough in 12 minutes. Sometimes it leads to a breakthrough in 12 years.
Faithful Small Beginnings and Long-Term Fruit
Chris Fletcher:I could go on and on and on. But I think — the last thing I want to be is found critical of Jesus's bride. So let's be careful when we get critical of the church. You're being critical of Jesus's fiancée. So let's be real careful here. But it saddens me when I see people who have neglected the basics because they're looking for the big bang magical moment.
Chris Fletcher:I can't tell you how many times the result of what God has done years and years and years ago — you don't see the fruit until either at the end or maybe in eternity.
Philip:But when we — you saw that video of the girls coming in. The first thing we do to these girls is we give them something to give away. Take them out to a village and they go to a neighbor's house and they bring more food and more clothes and more blankets and more hope than they've ever seen in their life before. And it takes them out of this to let them see — your world has changed. And they walk differently. They hold themselves differently because they've seen that God's bigger than their circumstance.
Philip:And that's what it is. We've got less than a minute to go. Chris, I really feel that God is doing something in and through you and your church. You told me the other day that you had a whole bunch of folk, over a hundred people baptized. Every one of those were small things when they got together and became a big thing. And if you are watching today, whatever you are — Chris pastors Manna Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina. There you go. That's the address of it. If you are anywhere in that area, you go and visit my friends, will you?
Philip:And the website is www.mannachurch.org. Thank you so much for being with me today. I hope you are blessed. Chris, thank you for just blessing me. And I just — today has been a great blessing. Thank you for watching Daily Faith. Please help us in those homes in Moldova. We can change the world together. Bye-bye.
For over 25 years, the Cameron family has been changing the lives of orphans in Romania and Moldova — from providing running water, flushing toilets and clean wells, to coal for heat, new windows, as well as food and clothing. They champion the physical needs of the orphans in these broken and desolate countries. Many of Moldova's orphans are saved from the horrors of trafficking through homes founded by the Camerons. And in the process, orphans become daughters and sons.
They come to know their heavenly Father and are forever changed by the love of Jesus. God helped the Camerons lift these amazing young men and women out of darkness, now no longer orphans. They wanna return and invade that very same darkness with the light of Jesus Christ. Orphan's Hands equips these daughters and sons to become missionaries. Your monthly gift of $31 will allow us to rescue and take in more girls and boys, saving them from the hell of human trafficking.
Your monthly partnership will allow us to care for those in the Orphan's Hands homes in Moldova and the Ukraine. If you want to join Philip and Chrissy in taking care of these precious young people, please contact us today by calling 1-833-DAILY FAITH. You can also give by going online to www.dailyfaith.tv or by writing to PO Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. So many lives depend on what we do. Thank you for loving the lost.
Common questions
What is Manna Church's mission and why does it have campuses near military bases?
Chris Fletcher explains that in 2014 God spoke to his father — the church's founding pastor — to plant an expression of Manna Church near every US military installation in the world. Because Fayetteville/Fort Bragg is the largest US military installation in the world, the congregation is an 'ascending base' where people constantly come and go, making it a natural launching point for that vision. They've been planting in homes, CrossFit gyms, and church buildings ever since, now spanning 21 states.
What does Chris Fletcher mean when he says God's plan stretches beyond our lifetime?
Fletcher challenges the idea that God's purpose is limited to the 80–100 years a person spends on earth. He argues that God's blessing and plan are eternal, so believers shouldn't squeeze everything they expect from God into this 'little blip of time.' He uses Paul's arrest in Jerusalem as an example — being in chains was not on Paul's script, yet it was the center of God's will because the payoff extended far beyond Paul's earthly timeline.
How does Chris Fletcher explain 'light and momentary affliction' when life feels really hard?
Fletcher acknowledges the phrase can feel almost insulting when you're in real pain. His point is that it only makes sense through an eternal lens — if this life is all there is, suffering feels catastrophic and endless. But if eternity is real, then even severe hardship genuinely is light and momentary by comparison. He says living through that eternal lens 'would change everything' about how we experience pain, even if it doesn't remove the pain itself.
Why does Chris Fletcher say there's no such thing as 'small outreach'?
Fletcher says people often wonder whether a seemingly trivial act — cleaning up a park, handing someone a water bottle — could possibly matter. He tells his church repeatedly that small acts have repeatedly turned out to be the moment that changed someone's eternal destiny. He also notes that outreach is a two-sided coin: while you're sharing your faith, God is doing something equally significant in your own life at the same time.
What is Chris Fletcher's warning about criticizing the church?
Fletcher says he never wants to be found critical of Jesus's bride, and he urges others to be careful too — because criticizing the church is essentially criticizing Jesus's fiancée. His concern is specifically with believers who have neglected the basics of prayer, fasting, and faithfulness while chasing a 'big bang magical moment,' not realizing that the fruit of those disciplines may not show up for years, or even until eternity.
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