Stories
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Suffering Significant Tragedies
In the midst of devastating situations in Arctic Canada, please pray that our lives would be a true reflection of the living hope that dwells within us.
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It Has to Be God Who Does It
There are challenges to reach the Inuit people group in the Canadian Arctic that the author hadn’t recognized until he visited . . . the Arctic. Prayerfully read through and vicariously experience the cold, the darkness, the language.
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“Becoming” Part of the Community
Over the last few months, we have written about various ways the team living in Arctic Canada is “becoming”. We are “becoming” like the Inuit as we learn and participate in daily life activities and learn to understand and speak Inuktitut. We are “becoming” more like Christ as He shapes us into His image, trusting…
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So Many Yet to Hear
You may be familiar with the story of Paul Fleming, founder of Ethnos, then known as New Tribes Mission… Paul was determined that he would be willing to go to the mission field if God would send him.
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Understandable This Time
Have you ever had to listen to a song over and over again to figure out the lyrics? And how much harder if the piece wasn’t in your heart language?
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They Were There
Some of the first Christian missionaries who ventured out to tell the good news of the gospel were the disciples, sent by Jesus Himself. “Freely you have received, freely give,” He told them. Two by two He sent them out, as we read in Matthew 10, with just the clothes on their backs and no…
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Divine Assembly for God’s Glory
Technology. Engineering. Solar panels. Water filtration units. These terms are not usually associated with missionary work or mission organizations. Some of us may picture a missionary as someone who is involved solely in Bible translation or language learning and preaching in a remote village. Surely an engineer couldn’t be used for that kind of mission…
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A Sacred Responsibility
“This whole 20-plus years that I worked on it, I felt overwhelmed much of the time, and it felt like it was never going to end. But now… the first printing of the Bru New Testament, including portions of the Old Testament, is actually in our hands!”
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Planting God’s Way
Let’s take a look at what goes into what we term a church plant. What all is involved in helping a missionary team plant a church?