Articles published in the monthly Together in Prayer newsletter.
What will the next generation of WMPL missionaries look like? I suspect you’ve heard the reports about the shrinking nature of the church in North America, and you very well may see it happening from where you sit on Sunday … (read more)
It is good to mark the end of one year and the beginning of another. In 2017 some of our workers completed their assignments and returned home; others retired. With them we celebrate persevering faith and the advance of the … (read more)
Big changes. Generally, we like to avoid them, but we can also acknowledge that they might just be part of God’s plan. After all, our God is unchanging, but he most definitely is not unmoving. We can count on both … (read more)
Have you ever been anxious about something to the extent that you lost sleep, or had an upset stomach, only to discover that there really wasn’t anything to worry about, that everything was going to work out anyway? I know … (read more)
The angel said, “Don’t be afraid. I’m here to announce a great and joyful event that is meant for everybody, worldwide: A Savior has just been born in David’s town, a Savior who is Messiah and Master. This is what … (read more)
Over the past few months, we have marked a series of important historical milestones… • the 80th anniversary of those heady days in which we created the South American Mission Prayer League; • the 150th anniversary of the famous “Ebenezer … (read more)
In Business School we are taught about “financial leverage.” A lever, of course, is a tool designed to produce output force greater than input force. In the area of finance, a very common “lever” is debt. Investors will use OPM … (read more)
The Prayer League Handbook uses an interesting term: “Intentional Dependence.” The Handbook portrays this as the core principle of something we call “The Prayer League Way.” Jan Tollefson, one of our seasoned missionaries with many years of experience within our … (read more)
Organizations like ours don’t simply descend from the sky. We are immersed in a story larger than ourselves. We are threads in a larger fabric. We have “taken root downward,” to borrow an image from Isaiah, that we might “bear … (read more)
While driving through the farmland of North Dakota, my father would sometimes comment on how the soil seemed less black than when he was farming. He attributed this unfortunate fact to erosion and the depletion of nutrients over years of … (read more)