“I have more in common with my Muslim neighbors than I have in common with most of my unbelieving American neighbors.” That was what one American Christian remarked during one of our recent ABWE training seminars teaching Christians in the U.S. to build...
Around the world, missionaries face the challenge of closed doors. It can be difficult for direct evangelistic and church planting efforts to gain interest or acceptance in a community. However, medical care is often an effective means of opening some of those doors...
In September of 2023 on the outskirts of Kiev, about 35 people from three churches gathered for the Good Soil Evangelism & Discipleship Seminar. It was the first one held in Ukraine since the invasion began in February of 2022. Since that time, churches have...
The village leaders and their families encircled the clearing between Kodzo’s huts, watching as he chipped away at the hard clay earth with his spade. He dug until his spade hit a small round pot—the fetish he had paid the witch doctor to create. As he pulled it from...
Brahim knew his questions were dangerous. How could he find out the truth about Jesus’ identity without being turned in to the authorities? Brahim had been watching television in his shop one day when he tuned into an Egyptian religious channel and heard a man...
As the elevator doors opened, I was concerned to see three Arab men glaring at us. Beside them stood three Arab women clad in black from head to toe. I paused, thinking, Is it safe? Nonsense—we’re in the United States. Of course we’re safe, I reassured myself. We...
So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, “Come, and see…" John 4:28-29 Four years ago in an evangelistic campaign we arrived to another home in our neighborhood in Misiones, Argentina to share the gospel and invite our neighbors...
It was early days in our term, living on the hospital compound, when one summer Saturday morning, there was a knock at our door. It was “Adam” – a local Togolese man who worked in construction with my husband, Nate. To be brutally honest, I wondered what...
“Trevor, I need 40 of The Story of Hope student workbooks and 10 leader guides.” Trevor Amack, ABWE missionary to Cambodia recently received this request from Andre, a local Khmer pastor/teacher and ministry partner. Trevor instructed him where he could find the...
Greetings from Togo! WOW! These past few months have been so crazy busy that I don’t even know where to begin! I guess there’s no better place to start than to give God the glory for what HE has done. We truly serve an amazing God who not only gave up His life for us...