“As a teenager, I saw a movie about somebody who healed people and loved people and was so kind. And at the end of the movie, he ended up dying, nailed to a cross, with a whole bunch of people who he had helped and loved watching him, and he fo...

Usually, when I share the gospel with people, I don’t yell at them. But in that car, as I was being yelled at, I don’t know what happened. I got emotional, and I started yelling back.“Remember this day! Not only your son, but YOU

He tore down his room in searching for his Bible, pretending he was making some renovations in his room so that his parents wouldn’t suspect anything.                        &nb...

“By blocking the wheels of a foreigner’s car, it is more than just an aggressive move. It is a symbolic accusation of being a thief. In our West African culture, that is a serious insult to a guest. You are not only making yourself look bad, yo...

Once upon a time, in a far-away village up in the mountains of Palawan, lived a polite but eccentric old witch doctor. . . .                                &...

“Hmmm. What’s going on? Why such a long prayer over cucumbers?”Listen to Alisha Taylor tell several stories from her time on the Himadri Project.                     ...

At the top of the hill, we parked, and . . . our brakes went out. The truck started rolling backward through traffic down the hill, and there was nothing we could do to stop it. I opened the door and started waving frantically and shouting, “Ge...

“No one was expecting us. Women and children ran screaming into the jungle, never having seen a white man, but soon came creeping back to see the unusual visitors.”                    &n...

For some reason, Leonda George, mother of four, seemed to attract creatures.“I saw this rat coming across a two by two and headed toward me and my bed. . . I started screaming, and the rat got startled.”What’s a mother to do?<...

We didn’t have a Christmas tree this year, so my brother and I made one from banana leaves and a coconut branch.                                  &n...

“Do not welcome into your homes the young people camped nearby. Do not study the Bible with them, and do not attend the lectures. If you go to that church, your firstborn will die.”Accused of causing trouble in a Tongan African village, ...

Jet had made the decision to be baptized. But he hadn’t counted the cost of what it would mean to tell his family. This would require full commitment.                        &n...

Oh, no, what am I going to do? I bought a 25-pound bag of sticky rice . . . and I don’t know how to cook it. Oh, what a mistake!                              ...

One day I want to ask them, “If you hate the cross so much, why is that image on your uniform?”                                       &nb...

Ham knelt down beside me, got close and said in a low voice, “Are you a Christian? I have some friends who are Christians and they have been telling me that I should be a Christian.”               ...

"Who in his right mind would hike into a den of thieves just for the sake of curiosity? They come here at night and steal our cattle and our pigs. Watch out, they’re all thieves and murderers!"            &...

All of a sudden, I felt a hand on my shoulder shaking me, and I pried my eyes open. I thought I saw my son Enoch standing there.Daddy, I’m sorry. I think I killed the camera.                ...

“I don’t want to change sides,” she stated.“Then I will make you,” came the reply.Hannah doesn’t remember what happened next.                            ...

Part two of our story “Ahmed and Akachi: From Folk Islam to Christ.”                                                &...

I am sick. I am alone. I am rejected by my family. God, I’ve never smoked or drank. My mother had never gone hungry when I had money. Why is this situation happening to me?                 &nb...

So she induced the mother, who had her baby very quickly, probably an hour later. We were hoping that would help save the mother, that it would stop all the convulsing. Unfortunately, she continued to decline, and the baby was born, weighing ab...

Silhouettes of trees and floating grass reflecting in the mirror-like water loomed around us like black ghosts, ready to swallow us up should our boat miss a turn. Mother and daughter huddled around the expectant woman, tending to her needs by ...

Cough. COUGH!  Robert’s poor wife was vomiting up hookworms.“Oh, dear! I don’t have any worm medicine to treat her with,” Laurie thought. “Hmm, I wonder . . .”               &n...

Tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tukah! Tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tukah! It’s the three-legged gecko again. . . singing. It has no reason, in my opinion, to do that in the middle of the night.              &nb...

An elderly man sitting in the back of the room raised his hand to speak. His question haunts me to this day.                                    &nb...