About Us
- The Director
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Tom Zurowski is the founder and director of Global Response Network (GRN). GRN serves as a messenger to awaken, inspire and motivate the Church. GRN is also a worldwide outreach of compassion that aids suffering Christians as they take up their cross and follow Jesus.
Tom has been in full-time ministry since 1991. He is well known for his prophetic voice to the church in North America and his missionary outreach to suffering Christians around the world. His travels have taken him to over a dozen nations on four continents, including China, Mexico, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Uganda, Kenya, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and Sudan. In the past fifteen years, Tom has made nearly fifty international ministry trips.
He and his wife, Elli, and their four children, Megan, John, Jeremiah and Matthew Stephen, currently reside in Somerset, Kentucky. - Who We Are
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GRN serves as a voice to awaken, inspire, and motivate the Church and is a worldwide outreach of compassion that aids God's people as they take up their cross to follow Jesus.
As children of God, all of us are called to do something significant in our generation. Many years ago the Lord gave us a clear mandate to be a messenger to His church. Since 1991, we have had the privilege of motivating thousands of people to serve the Lord with all of their heart, mind, soul and strength and to love their neighbor as themselves. We have had the joy of watching countless people make a choice to turn from their sins and follow The Messiah. We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God has called us to encourage Christians everywhere to live an obsessed life, with hearts possessed by the Lord Himself.
This message in part has been fueled by a relationship with Christ's suffering church around the world. As we have interacted with our brothers and sisters in countries like Sudan and Pakistan, we have been reminded that there is a great cost to being a follower of Jesus. Through their scars, bruises and willingness to suffer for Christ's namesake, they have inspired us to embrace a form of Christianity that goes beyond mere religious activity. The suffering church challenges us to not only live for Jesus, but to die for Him if necessary. They have shown us how to love, forgive and serve. We believe what they have displayed before us is "the normal Christian life" in its simplest form. They have taught us that loving God and loving people is what really makes a man rich.
As a result of the fellowship we have shared with suffering Christians around the world, we have made it our aim to connect people of privilege (us) with our extended family (We do this through specific projects and by partnering with other like minded ministries). Their lives serve to challenge and encourage us, and we have the joy of responding to them through our gifts of prayerful and financial support. In this reciprocal relationship, all of our lives are changed for the better. Together we add value to each other's lives.
Please pray for us as we take this life-changing message to the Church, and as we reach out with various projects to serve fellow saints across the globe. - Statement of Faith
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We Believe:
- That our all-wise God has revealed Himself and His will in a complete revelation through the holy scriptures (the 66 books of the Old and New Testament) - Which is fully adequate in both content and clarity for "everything pertaining to life and godliness" including the ordering of the church and the family. (2 Peter 1:3&4; 1Timothy 3:15)
- That almighty God is the sovereign Creator and Preserver of His people and all the institutions that bring blessing to mankind such as the church and the family and is thus deserving of our highest honor and humble obedience.
- That Jesus is God and the Head of His church, having purchased it with His own blood. (Col. 1:18) That He alone is the Savior of all mankind and that there is no other way to Heaven but by Him. (John 14:6) That He was born of a virgin, lived among men, was crucified, died, buried and on the third day He rose again from the dead. That He ascended to the Father and is seated at His right hand.
- In the Holy Spirit, who is sent of the Father as a gift to all believers and to give them power to be witnesses of Jesus Christ to all the world.(Acts 1:8) That the infilling of the Holy Spirit is evident by living a holy life, walking in the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:19 - 26) and exhibiting the power of the Spirit in a fallen world. (1 Cor. 12:7-11)
- In the Godhead which is made up of the Father, The Son(Jesus) and the Holy Spirit. That the Father testifies of the Son (Matt. 3:17) ; and the Son testifies of the Spirit (John 14:26) and that the Spirit testefies of the Son (John 15:26)
- That God's character consists of love, mercy, wisdom, grace, forgiveness, peace, holiness, anger, patience, wrath, joy, compassion and jealousy.
- That we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ (Eph. 2:8) That repentence from sin is necessary for salvation and that one must accept Jesus as Lord and not just Savior. That we serve Him based on the fact that He is worthy of our obedience.
