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)
How are we to share the Good News of Jesus Christ and plant churches among people who are bound by the spirit of fear, darkness and hopelessness? People who have lost their traditions and who seem rootless? People who all … (read more)
It is estimated that one third of our human family has yet to hear the Good News. More than two billion persons. The Good News is not broadcast on their radios. The Good News is not available in their bookstores. … (read more)
“When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel … (read more)
On 26 September 1867, the pioneers of the Santal Mission knelt by a stone in the middle of the mission compound of Benagaria and dedicated their lives to serve the Lord among the people of India. That was 145 years … (read more)