Pray for a friend of mine I met while wandering around in a mall. I accidentally knocked over a cooking pan that was on display and a young guy working there ran out from behind the counterand picked it up before I could and said it was no problem. I said I was sorry and …
One of our current discipleship students, Sarah, and another local Christian friend were out at a café the other day when the cafés finally reopened after weeks of Covid closure. They overheard a man at the next table struggling to order food for lack of knowledge of the local language. Sarah speaks excellent English and …
At the beginning of April my husband Philip and I started our journey back to Canada from three months in the DR Congo. When we arrived in Ntoroko, Uganda and got in a taxi bus, I sat down beside the lady in the blue scarf. During our five-hour journey I asked her about her family …
An exciting development for me has come through a young man I’ve been discipling for just over a year now. We’ve been trying to do pre-baptism studies but have constantly been delayed by him bringing along friends that he wants to hear the gospel. We told him that he is quite capable of sharing the …
reflections from a new worker The outside world around me continues to be extremely foreign and perplexing. Adapting to culture is as much what you don’t do as it is what you do do. As a woman, protecting my honour means taking an exuberant wide berth around groups of men standing in the pathway, …
by Allysha Wiebe I had some rich times in the Word and in prayer during the required fourteen-day quarantine in a hotel in Phnom Penh. On the 13th day we packed our many suitcases. On the 15th we found out that three people from our quarantine group tested positive and at 10 am were ordered to quarantine …
In November, my husband J and I prayed that the Lord would give us connections with our focus people here in Hamilton. The next day we were driving back from Brantford and J noticed a burning car in the ditch between the two sides of the highway. He quickly pulled over into the ditch and …
Here we are at the end of 2020 and on everyone’s mind is the pandemic and the lockdowns and the total change in our every day lives. Well, guess what, you’ve just had a missionary year! It wasn’t easy, was it? Now you have a better, more realistic view of why it is so hard …
by Karen Morris I’m grateful for God’s protection and provision during these times when Spain had one of the strictestlockdowns. We weren’t even allowed to leave the house to go for a walk. The balcony of my flat looks out onto the same little plaza as one of the YWAM bases in Spain. During the lockdown, they would …
by Nick Mason in Japan At first, we thought COVID would go away quickly and we buckled down to do renovations in the yellow house that God blessed us with in March. A perfect way to spend social distancing time. However, the renovations ended, but the social distancing continued. But we were itching to get …
