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God Brought Us Together
I had just finished eating dinner at a restaurant with my two boys when I heard something interesting as we were walking out. A couple was speaking to each other in Japanese. I remembered a little from my time in Japan. I approached them by speaking what Japanese I could…
Missing Keys and Answered Prayers
I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED! I screamed in my head. This is so embarrassing! I will have to tell the others that I lost my keys; maybe they will have seen them somewhere. I tell the other student missionaries who walked me home, and we call the Williams family, who…
Drunk on the Trail
“Be careful up here. There is a drunk man on the trail,” hollered back the man from the village as he passed us for the second time. He had passed us going down the trail when we were coming up and now was passing us again while carrying to his…
Healing Stories
“When we gather the courage to examine our past, and develop the ability to reflect on and then tell our own stories in a clear and coherent way—where we are neither running from the past nor becoming preoccupied with it—we can begin to heal from our past wounds. In doing…
Sports School
One of the challenges we have faced during our years here in Central Asia has been finding ways to meet new friends in our community. We have tried various ideas over the years but have always been reluctant to do one thing that many people recommend. That is, to enroll…
Receive to Give
It is surreal that I am finally on a foreign mission field for the first time. This past June, I was still waking up to another day of not living out the best that God has for me. It took a long time to discern His voice, muffled by my…
The Haunting Silence
Editor’s note: You can read the first article about Ronald in the August 2024 issue of Adventist Frontiers. “Do you see that patch of jungle across the river?” the elder asked Ronald. “That’s our cemetery where we sacrifice and do witchcraft. If your God is as powerful as you say,…
Change after Change
“My phone is lost!” my wife says, and it’s just one more thing. Our plans keep changing, with delays and sick children; everything feels hard. Our journey to America was supposed to start on a specific date, but a series of unexpected events accelerated our departure. Initially, confusion reigned; we…
The Precious Faith of Ukà Kulipang
Huddled on the sheet-less hospital bed, tubes in her side and nose and an oxygen mask over her face lay my Older Sister (Ukà) Kulipang. Sick with tuberculosis and pneumothorax, which caused a collapsed lung, my sister was suffering. A tiny woman, she made for a small bundle on the…
Mountaintop Prayers
After recently returning to Southern Thailand, we visited missionaries Brian and Duang Wilson, who live in the city of Surat Thani. They are translating relevant and timely material into the Thai and Tai-Kadai languages. During our visit, we talked and prayed for the work in this city and province. We…