Overall, we are doing well. The fears of the unknown have lessened. We have many positive experiences here of people being kind to us. My husband was feeling a bit homesick around Christmas. He was also quite ill and our apartment very cold, which tends to make things seem worse. For myself I haven’t felt …
If we serve God reluctantly there will be very little progress. I learned this lesson from a reluctant horse many years ago in Upper Volta (Burkina Faso). I had just arrived in the country and had no means of getting out to the villages to evangelize, except to walk five or six kilometers. One day …
I’m so thankful to be back in Abbotsford–I made it just in time for the floods! My parents had previously moved out from Sumas prairie to Sumas mountain and sold the property to my brother. My parents still own the chicken farm and continue to work there as well as have a construction company office …
As the taxi stopped, I handed the driver the money, grabbed my bags and stepped out of the car. I walked towards a coffee shop I frequent to meet up with my ride home, but as I walked, I realized that my hand felt strangely empty. I did not have my phone. I searched my …
For two weeks straight, we received a steady stream of visitors in our thatch-roofed, open-air living room, enduring tearful farewells and doling out the possessions we had accumulated over a period of seven years. Surreally, it was now time to say goodbye. I found myself wondering what had been accomplished during our time in Cambodia …
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I was curious to meet this man who had requested a New Testament. Was he already a believer? On meeting us in his city, he invited us into his house, which is not common here. We learned that he is a teacher and has studied both philosophy and psychology. He had been an atheist all …
Restrictions eased in the summer, and I headed to the eastern part of the country with one of my housemates. We went to visit some believers and people interested in the Gospel. Some of these believers have been rejected by their families and are not welcome in their home towns. We traveled to a town …
I met a man, A, who lives about an hour away. He had received a Bible from our group three years previously and became a believer on his own. He’d been waiting for someone to meet with him ever since. When one of our teammates did meet him, they found a solid committed believer who …
In January we printed a story called Dramatic Connections. J pulled a man from a burning car on thehighway. J and his wife C were so amazed that the people they were helping were from the samearea where they had served in the Middle East. Here is the follow up of that story written by …
I grew up in a home and church where mission work was supported and encouraged.From a young age I was fascinated by missionaries’ stories and I hoped that one day I would havethe courage to be obedient to the Lord and experience these ‘adventures’ of those who chose toleave everything familiar behind. But I was …
