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“God, please do not forget us. I know you are trying to speak to us through the typhoon.”
After Typhoon Haiyan decimated Joel Marmita’s hometown in the Philippines in 2013, Joel had difficulty finding work and struggled to provide for...
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, technological advances and transportation opportunities have made it conceivable for the first time in history that a single generation of Christians might be able to both access and evangelize all of the world...
Who was Mincaye?
On April 28, 2020 the world’s most famous hunter-gatherer left this earth and joined Jim Elliott, Rodger Youderian, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming in the presence of their Savior. The story of those five mission...
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Mensa, a leader of an ABWE-planted church in Togo, was overjoyed when he learned his wife was pregnant with twins. But during the delivery his joy quickly turned to horror when his wife started bleeding to death and lost consciousness.
Mensa knew his wi...
Justin fell in love with airplanes as a boy, often building model planes with his brother growing up.
His fascination with aviation was inspired by his father, who was raised in a house at the end of a runway.
So, when he saw a yellow-win...
Being the youngest of eight children, and having both of his parents pass away by the age of 11, meant that Bill grew up largely under the care of older siblings.
Bill heard the gospel from his brother, but he didn’t act on his need for a...
Mensa was overjoyed when he learned his wife was pregnant with twins. But during delivery, his joy quickly turned into panic when his wife started bleeding to death and lost consciousness.
Mensa knew his wife needed medical attention that she couldn’t ...
Professor Carl Trueman opened his book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self with a simple observation: any society before our own would have had no context for the following statement: “I am a woman trapped in a man’s body.” Now, we often hear sim...
“The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.” (Proverbs 17:24)
What does Proverbs 17:24 mean? Are missionaries “fools” for setting their sights on the “ends of the earth”?The ...
