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...

Are you a Christian?How would you answer that question asked by someone climbing on your wall?                                       ...

“Man,  your bread is amazing. I’ve never tasted such good sourdough bread, even in France!” Lolo exclaimed as his face lit up inside our Cambodian bakery.                      &...

Ezra and Bibi walked through the jungle, stepping over a partially concealed tripwire, to find out why Bibi’s friend was afraid to come to church. They soon found themselves at her friend’s house . . . right in the middle of a big rebel militar...

“Only when you abandon Christianity will you have access to the documents,” Adama’s family said to her after kicking her out of the house. How was she going to enroll in school now?            &n...

“Get up! Get up!” the gendarme shouted as they banged on the front door.“Why are you here?” Grace asked as she opened her door to the armed policemen.SLAP! “Get up. You have to come with us.”      &n...

“God, why am I going through this?” Nani asked, still believing He had a purpose and a plan for her life. “God, show my family that your power is above the spirits.”                     ...

“When you let God write your story, you are embracing the best life!”Two lives. Two calls to the same mission field, years apart. Now, one newly wedded couple is preparing to go and serve the Ama Tribe of Papua New Guinea.  &...

Want to know how to start a church-planting movement? Go and share the wonderful things God has been doing in your life.                                  &...

“Ohayo gozaimasu,” came the loud and boisterous greeting of “Good morning” in Japanese. And so began our delightful ritual of greeting each other as Caitlyn and I walked to and from language school.            ...