“Then he said to them, ‘So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.’” (Matthew 22:21b) Tax exemption for religious charities pre-dates the United States. Some say that the English “Statute of Charitable Uses of … (read more)
“’Truly I tell you,’ Jesus said to them, ‘no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age, … (read more)
Can you picture it? A band of students, pastors and friends gathering together to pray for the nations. Imagine – young people sharing their lives, their hearts, and a passion for the lost. This is exactly how the World Mission … (read more)
We are excited to update you! We have had so many blessings come our way that we are sure many of you must be praying for us. God is so good! Our new home on campus is a real gift … (read more)
Last month we reviewed the remarkable growth of the church here and there around the world: 50,000 sisters and brothers in Mongolia, up from a handful three decades ago; a million more in Nepal; nearly half-a-billion on the continent of … (read more)
Ten days ago I visited a friend who several weeks earlier had told me about the gossip going around concerning “religion spreaders.” She had wanted to warn me to “be careful.” Now we were alone in the single, cluttered room … (read more)
May I be perfectly frank? Sometimes I wonder what, precisely, we have accomplished in seventy-five years. We have prayed many prayers, it is true. We have sent many hundreds of missionaries. We have received the donations of faithful sisters and … (read more)
When the children were very small, Dave and I used to take the family camping in a remote area of national forest in Oregon. We would load up the ’69 Ford pickup with everything imaginable. For two nights, we would … (read more)
In July we implemented our new system for covering missionary fielding cost. This new system was the topic of this article in the June issue of Together in Prayer. The motivation for changing the system was primarily to allow a … (read more)
The plane accelerated down the runway and lifted off. We looked down on Mindanao for the last time. We could see the checkerboard pattern of rice fields stretching out to the east, the rich farmland broken up only by coconut … (read more)