Noah’s Ark Still Afloat Brazil Noah’s Ark Christian School (NACS) is located in the small town of Rio Preto da Eva in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. The closest city, Manaus, is also the state’s capital and is located one hour away. The school was founded in 2009 by Rio Preto resident Vania Scheffel and American Sandy De Senna. …
Angry Man Becomes Calm in Chad Before I arrived in Chad, the Adventist church in town had put on an evangelistic effort in Dabgue, a small village nearby. A small group of believers was meeting there under the shade of a mango tree, and that was where I spent my first Sabbath in Chad. With rare exception, we drive …
Finding Yaneth Bolivia “Fatherless and motherless children are thrown into the arms of the church, and Christ says to His followers: Take these destitute children, bring them up for Me, and ye shall receive your wages.” The Adventist Home, 167. God has really been blessing us here in Santa Cruz, Bolivia! Recently, we were fixing up the house, using donated …
“Lord, Give Me Senegal!” There are times that we read things that touch our hearts. This happened to me recently with an email sent to me by a friend. The email was about being a champion for God and included the story of John Knox who, after seeing the sleepy state of the church in Scotland, prayed, “Lord, give me …
I am so thankful we are not just a happenstance, but we have been chosen for the greatest mission of all time–not a clandestine operation in which hangs the destiny of nations, but rather participation in a task that will bring eternal security to the universe. We are “a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people.” …
What Does God Need to Complete the Work? Brazil Before becoming a missionary, I had a deep impression that God wanted me to perform a great work in His cause. I had the opportunity to be a Bible worker with a ministry in Sao Paulo; I preached in Adventist and Evangelical churches, participated in radio programs, made a few mission …
Medical Missionary Opportunity In Rural Thailand Last May I had an opportunity to go to the mountain village of Piyotha (Beyota). The villagers are very poor and many are addicted to opium. One lone Seventh-day Adventist church stands as a beacon among fifty similar villages. It takes several hours by truck to reach some of these villages, and a …
Faithful Under Trial Philippines We had been visiting a family here in Impasug-ong, Romeo and Norma Sayusay and their six children, Marvin, 19; Michael, 16; Honey, 14; Aiai, 11; Tonton, 8; and Ronron, 6. They were active members of Fundamental Baptist Church. One morning as I was washing my clothes, a man wearing a robe came to see me. …
Lord, Send Me Botswana My name is Loago Setswalo, and I am currently 28 years old. I was born in the small village of Shakawe, in the northwestern part of Botswana, Southern Africa. I had prayed for about three years to be trained in a Bible-based training school to be an evangelist for the Lord. The burden I had was …
Do you ever ponder how the Lord is going to finish His work? As we survey the teeming multitudes circling the globe, the magnitude of the work can seem overwhelming, but praise God, He “will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness.” (Romans 9:28) How can every person on this globe be given the gospel invitation before the …
