Strength For A School Teacher Thailand Excitement and anxiety swirled inside me as I looked ahead to the new school year at the mission school where my family and I volunteer. Although I had been preparing my English lesson plans for weeks, I didn’t feel ready to start teaching again. I loved teaching. More than teaching, I loved my …
Pictures from a baptism in Mindanao, Philippines in April 2016. Praise God! (Click any photo to see it larger.)
A fascinating verse of Scripture is Matthew 11:12, “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.” How does the Kingdom of Heaven suffer violence and how do the violent take it by force? Certainly, we desire to be part of Jesus’ Kingdom, so we need …
HELP ECUADOR! Pra del tor was miraculously preserved in the earthquake that occurred this past Sabbath evening. It is more than amazing to us to have lost only a flower vase, when the rest of our province has been devastated, and people are dying every minute for lack of food, water, medical help, and shelter. The Lord hasn’t bestowed such …
The Lord is continuing to work in the Dominican! Early in March, our SDA university held a region-wide evangelistic campaign conducted by various pastoral major students. One of the students, a native from Mexico, led out in a week-long series of meetings hosted in the community where our ministry project operates. This evangelistic effort brought six lovely souls into the …
Seeking the Lost Honduras Going Afar in Honduras by Christopher DeMary Our family went to Honduras for our first mission trip. Thank God, I now understand fully the significance of the lyrics of the beautiful hymn, “Seeking the Lost.” As I stood outside the small home of a family in the village of Cerro de Toro singing these words, …
Jesus gave a message that is even truer today than when He spoke the words nearly two thousand years ago. “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. . . . Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.” Matthew 24:42, 44. Watch and be …
Bringing Light into Hard Lives Russia My husband Andrey, my daughter Samantha, and I experienced another amazing Medical Missionary (MM) school in Russia. Just like the last time, all of us, students, teachers, cooks, and the house residents, lived in a large two-story house owned by Ivan and Irina Galagyov, with their two teenage sons. The family and staff …
The Work of Restoration Thailand Earlier this year, we introduced you to Pa Lee Loo, the Gominit village spirit doctor. Our Karen Bible students, while seeking an opportunity to share the light of Jesus, found him hopeless and dying in his bamboo home. His wife had given up caring for him and was basically just waiting for him to …
Gunnel’s Last Days Sweden “Do you have a dog? Are you interested in dog food?” It was a cold, rainy, and very windy day in the marketplace. Before it was even ten o’clock in the morning, most of the vendors had already returned home, having realized that the storm was not abating. Giannantonio, Aaron, and I had decided to …
