A couple of weeks ago, Luke Kanagy made me a latte in my childhood kitchen. I grew up in Ecuador, where my dad* was an MAF pilot for 22 years. I hadn’t been inside that house since my family left Shell in 1991. As Luke, a pilot and mechanic, and his wife, Jaalah, showed me around, everything felt smaller than I remembered.…
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God is Love – Philippines – submitted by Operation Mobiliztion The way Janet (Philippines) began running Discovery Bible Studies (DBSs) in the southern Philippines was very spontaneous. “It started with just casual conversations,” she shared. When a person in the community came to her with a problem, Janet would earnestly listen, refrain from giving her own advice and then ask the person…
Have you ever wondered what happens when you give to SAT-7? When you give, lives are changed by the Good News of Christ. SAT-7’s Bible-based programs are reaching millions of viewers through satellite television, on-demand video, and social media content. Your support broadcasts the hope of the Gospel in the heart language of people who…
Alex Mbewe works with the Wesleyan Church in Zambia. He is a dedicated “JESUS” film team leader. The Wesleyan Church is one of more than 1,800 ministry partners who use “JESUS”. Alex’s team came to an area known for demonic oppression. A powerful witch openly opposed them when they tried to show the “JESUS” film. But God gave Alex’s team the victory.…
“We were seeking God—we just didn’t know what God was at the time.” After a providential encounter with a friend at the grocery store, Casey, a prominent Irish rapper whose party lifestyle had left him unfulfilled, and his girlfriend Kim were invited to Leading The Way’s Hope Ireland Evangelistic Celebration. They’d already felt the stir of the Holy Spirit on their lives, but…
Anora, a Central Asian believer now living in Prague, used to think serving in the church seemed to be a duty and way a Christian should give back. But over time, she discovered it was much more. Diane In, an IMB missionary serving in Prague, first met Anora when she attended the church where Diane and her husband, Luke, serve. Diane said…
The fastest-growing “religious group” in America is the religiously unaffiliated. As followers of Jesus, it’s clear we need to respond… but how? If we are going to reach this post-Christian generation, we need a huge paradigm shift. We need to become cross-cultural missionaries to our own people in our own cities. In order to reach this generation, we can not recycle the…
RUSSIA/UKRAINE: “The War Accelerated Our Ministry” How is God at work amid ongoing fighting since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Eric Mock, from the Slavic Gospel Association, wants to remind us that the gospel is going forth as Christians stay faithful to serve the Lord in spite of difficulties and hardship. He’ll share stories of Ukrainian pastors who kept up their ministries, even with Russian…
Bullets whizzed by the technicians’ heads in the stifling heat of northern South Sudan. “What’s going on? Who’s shooting at us?” they shouted, diving to the ground. They scanned everywhere trying to understand what was happening. They were simply there to move the remote town’s Christian radio station tower to a higher location with a clearer signal. Then they saw the militia…
God has provided believers in Malawi with 8,500 Bibles! Harvesters was able to hand-deliver Bibles, supplied by Biblica, to: … Churches that were sharing just one or two Bibles among all the members. … Believers who simply could not afford one. … Disciples whose Bibles were falling apart and missing sections. … Evangelists eager to…