Fervent Continent, Deep Roots

They worship with fire - but hunger for the Word.

Across Latin America, Protestant Christianity is exploding. Yet behind hours of fervent worship stands a fragile church: pastors set into ministry with almost no training, congregations rich in emotion but thin on Scripture, and a faith that too often stops at the sanctuary door. As Catholicism recedes and the "nones" surge, people are searching for a more personal experience of God - and knocking on doors the church is not always ready to open.

Drawing on two decades on the ground in Guatemala, missionary and mission strategist Richard Kim tells the story of a "seminary that goes to the student" - beaming theological education by satellite to mountain and seaside villages where books, money, and roads run out. Through a field survey of 365 working pastors and the timeless insight of Jonathan Edwards, he presses one conviction: sound theological education raises healthy pastors, healthy pastors build biblical churches, and biblical churches transform society.

Part missionary memoir, part practical blueprint, Fervent Continent, Deep Roots also asks how the unchanging gospel meets the changing tools of the digital and AI age - and what any church, anywhere, can learn from a continent that is fervent but shallow-rooted.

For pastors, seminarians, missionaries, and every believer who longs for depth beneath the fervor.