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I Am Thankful

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This time, when I look at all the lit apartments, rather than feeling sorry for myself, I see people in need, people desperate for someone to come and share the gospel, someone who will lead them to Jesus. That someone is me. That someone is you.

Discovery Bible Study In 4 Easy Steps

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Try the Discovery Bible Study method. It can be an excellent tool for witnessing to others or personal or family devotions.

The Gift of Thanks

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Perhaps you are experiencing a dark valley right now. Instead of pushing away those thoughts and feelings, express them to your heavenly Father. As you do, focus on Him: His character, actions and love. Gift Him your thanks.

Editorial: November 2023

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God’s blessings to you and all whom you love.

There is Hope

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As Christians, you and I have real hope. Hope for a future without pain, suffering and death. Hope that Jesus will make all things right. You and I can share this hope in Christ with those who do not yet know.

Missionary Retreats

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True disciples do not ask, “Is what I am doing well received or popular?” Rather, they ask, “Am I being true to the One who sent me? Am I His faithful witness?

Your Role in the Body

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Whatever your role in the body of Christ, labor with all your might.

Editorial: October 2023

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Pray. God knows what you are facing. He knows what the best solution is. Trust Him.

Open Letter From the AFM Board

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As we partner with each other, let us boldly move forward together in the courage and grace and love of our soon-coming Savio

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Who will follow the Savior? Who will go? Will you?

Miraculous Healing

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Is God moving you to help people from Muslim backgrounds? If so, go to the Dream Project at afmonline.org. Please keep us in your prayers that God will use us to share Him and His truth with the people He is reaching through dreams.

They Answered the Call

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We thank God for every one of these young people who answered God’s call to “Go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). We also thank you, their support team, for keeping them in your prayers as they embark on this new journey.

Faith in Action

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Every aspect of AFM ministry depends on faithfulness—from missionaries to new believers among the unreached to donors who support the work, education of children, and AFM’s ministry. Faithfulness truly is a virtue. May the Lord bless all who possess it.

Editorial: September 2023

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The further you deepen your relationship with Christ, the greater you will know the Answer. Then when you hear, “I don’t know what to do,” you may reply, “But I know the One who does. May we pray together for the answer?”

Fundraising Blessings

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As you consider adopting a missionary, or if you are already giving to one, I encourage you to pray earnestly for them, send them letters of encouragement, and be prepared for God to change your life.

Seeking AFM Center Facilities Assistant Manager

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Job Opening: AFM Center Assistant Facilities Manager

The Most Unreached People In the World

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Will you go and share the gospel with one of the top unreached people groups?

The History of Restoration in a Nutshell

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Please pray for Marian as she is starting to actively share what she is learning in anticipation of bringing joy and hope into the lives of people around her.

A Certain Age

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The time has come for you and me to choose courage over fear, faith over doubt, and boldness over timidity. And we were born for this time.

Missing In Action

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Will you be Found in Action? If you are called upon to give your life, will you be found right where you are supposed to be—in the palm of Jesus?

Editorial: July 2023

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One thing is certain: AFM missionaries love Jesus no matter the cost. Will you join them?

I Will Be With You!

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The question is not whether you feel qualified. The question is, are you willing to let God qualify you for the position He has in mind for you? Fear not! He is able to make you capable. He will be with you.

Heavenly meeting

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I hope and pray to meet all of you on that beautiful shore and that we will all continue to do everything we can to make it possible for many more to join us there.

Editorial: June 2023

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All of these articles tied with heartstrings, these are a few of my favorite things.

The Need is the Call

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God is calling for men who are willing to leave their farms, their business, if need be their families, to become missionaries for Him.

Lights to the World

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Thank you for answering the call to be, and to support, modern-day missionaries who have answered the greatest call known to humanity — to represent the Light of the World, the Prince of Peace, in the spiritually dark and violent places of our world!

Banana Victory

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AFM missionaries on projects across the 10/40 window are praying for opportunities such as this Overcomer’s Conference. Opportunities to share how victory in Jesus is possible. Opportunities for local people to choose and experience overcoming with the help of Jesus, even amid heavy temptations.

Editorial: May 2023

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May we meet when Christ begins His new and glorious act.

It is Now the Eleventh Hour

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Multitudes of languages, tongues, and peoples in the harvest fields await laborers. The Lord needs more workers among the Yadav Hindus in India, the Tonga Animists of Mozambique, the Muslims of the Maghreb, and many other people groups. Will you join us in answering His call to go and work in the vineyard?

How Did Jesus Do It?

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Is God stirring you to help our Muslim brothers and sisters?

700 Miles of Discipleship

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God hasn’t changed. And as we reach out to Him for guidance in how best to support His work, and whether or not that includes becoming missionaries or pledging to support them, He often allows us, as He did Paul, to make those decisions based on principle, then steps in to make minor corrections as we journey forward from there.

Editorial: April 2023

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Our missionaries are cultivating the mind of Christ. They invest their time and lives in the unreached, hoping to introduce them to Jesus and establish church-planting movements.

Your Next Career Change

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As we empower you to become an effective worker in the gospel vineyard, you can have confidence, knowing you will go to the field prepared to successfully execute your task. Will you answer the call?

The Miracle Text

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God is calling His people to go and share the everlasting gospel with the unreached people of the world.

The Effect of Compounding

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Whether in planned giving or front-line mission service, the greatest compounding effect can only be achieved by starting now.

Editorial: February 2023

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So, how about it? One year? Two years? As Jared Ratcliff shares, “Jesus has invested infinitely more time and love into us than we can do for another”

Contrails

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Now is the only time we have. Tomorrow may be too late. There is a great need for missionaries willing to take the gospel to all people and for those who will sacrificially support them.

Not Ashamed of the Gospel

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“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek” (Romans 1:16, NRSV).

Editorial: March 2023

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Jesus is returning soon, and roughly 42 percent of the world remains unreached. What will give us the courage to choose transformation?

Have It All

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Your desire to serve does not have to end with that one year you spent overseas in college. It does not have to remain that dream job you wanted when you were six. You can travel across the world and share the Good News of Jesus Christ with people, seeing the love of God transform their lives for the better. Want to know how you can have it all?

Expectations

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May the God of “all things good” be with you throughout this new year!

Editorial: January 2023

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May we each commit to hiding the word of God in our hearts in 2023.

He is the Gift

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Please prayerfully consider going to share the light of this Gift with the unreached who sit in darkness.

Looking Back, Looking Forward, and Looking Up!

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As the battles of 2022 fade behind us, and we anticipate the spiritual struggles of 2023—when in the name of Jesus Christ we grapple with spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms—we choose to look neither backward nor forward, but upward in faith and with prayer.

The Missionary Body: A Parable

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The Head’s message was clear and direct. Would the many members listen, take up their individual duties and unite as one body? Would Missionary Paul finally be able to fulfill the Great Commission? Only time would tell.

Editorial: December 2022

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Let us love one another, extending His grace and providing each other with hope and courage to change—the story of the manger.

Faith Points

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As we enter the holiday season, I am thankful that God has given us points along the way to look back to when we need reminding that we are not alone, that our situation is far from hopeless and that He is still faithful.

Sawm: The Fourth Pillar of Islam

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Muslims believe that true dreams will come during the month of Ramadan.

Editorial: November 2022

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May your hearts be filled with His love, peace and joy. There would be no AFM team without you.

End Pain; Bring Joy!

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We want to invite you to experience this joy—eternal joy—in knowing that you have introduced others to the Savior.

The Greatest Need

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You can be the answer to His greatest need and the needs of the unreached.

Zakat: The Third Pillar of Islam

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There are Five Pillars at the core of every Muslim’s duty to worship God. They fortify the Islamic faith and guide every Muslim into a life of servitude. These include shahada (the profession of faith), salah (prayer), zakat (almsgiving), sawm (fasting) and hajj (pilgrimage).

Editorial: October 2022

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For AFM missionaries and supporters (that’s you), it is often the opportunity to take up Christ’s great commission and tell others about Him—teaching what He has taught us in His word and, hopefully, one day baptizing them in His name.

A Parable of the Harvest and the Laborers

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But we wonder, however, how much more effective the picking would have been had the Society not ignored the acres of untouched trees, unpicked apples and unfinished work.

Growing in Jesus and Serving the Unreached

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God will do incredible things through these young people because of your prayers and their efforts this coming year.

Why Give?

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“will you not help in this great work?
I beseech you to do something for Christ, and do it now.”

The Roaring Lion

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Please prayerfully consider how you can be one of His guides by going to the mission field or helping to send others.

Salah: The Second Pillar of Islam

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Let us invite Muslims to pray with us whenever we mingle with them.

Editorial: September 2022

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Where do you find Jesus in your story?

AFM Launches New Donor System

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Instructions on how to use the new donor giving system.

Memorial Service for Marianne Hollister

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Marianne Hollister (January 11, 1953 – August 16, 2022)

Now!

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What will you do? Will you commit to pray—earnestly pray—for more laborers? Will you give—sacrificially give—from your abundance to support those who will go? Will you be one of those who venture into the darkness, bearing the light, bringing food to the starving, and sharing healing through the blood of the Savior?

The Five Pillars of Islam

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In conversing with Muslims, it is important to emphasize our belief in the One and only God, submitting everything to Him (James 4:7-10), obeying His teaching and living it daily in our lives, and depending on His mercy for our salvation and daily needs. That is the great shahada (testimony) that we can give.

It’s Time to Let Go

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“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust [inflation] doth corrupt” (Matthew 6:19).

Editorial: August 2022

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“Now is the time to decorate our hearts with unselfish love and stubborn kindness”—Alexa Sharma, AFM missionary.

God’s Mission Statement

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God does not want us to sit idly by and watch Google, the BBC, and other companies do better at reaching the whole earth. He asks us to join Him in being a part of His movement, and we can start preparing for and participating in that work today.

A Caucasus’ Kaleidoscope

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A whirlwind tour and Caucasus kaleidoscope. Oh, the joy of seeing the Spirit at work!

Editorial: July 2022

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We serve a God full of surprises.

Seeking AFM Center Facilities Manager

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Job Opening: AFM Center Facilities Manager

Clap! Clap! Clap!

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The clapping game participants and the early church believers started movements by sharing with others. You, too, can go and help start a new movement among an unreached people group

The “Poppy” Seed

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Perhaps the greatest lesson of my life is the one they taught without saying a word—a missionary is not a title; it is true Christian living.

Editorial: June 2022

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As we remember our fathers or even consider our own fatherhood, let us be thankful to our Heavenly Father for His constant presence in our lives and the wonderful gift of His Son.

It’s Planting Time

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God takes our seeded efforts and brings forth a great harvest.

Apples, Cat Videos, the Unreached and You

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Instead of being preoccupied with the coolest app or latest gadget, why not join one of the most significant movements in Earth’s history—sharing the gospel with every nation, tribe, tongue and people? You, too, have been called. Go and change the world through Him. For Him. For eternity.

Captives of Conscience

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Our conscience is a God-given inner faculty by which the Holy Spirit gives an awareness of the morality of given actions, decisions and thoughts. Through our conscience, the Holy Spirit both bears witness to what we already know to be God’s will (Romans 2:15) and also reveals God’s will to us and the community of faith (Romans 9:1).

Reflections

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“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (Romans 15:13). May your overflow bring living water to the thirsty souls of the unreached.

Editorial: May 2022

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Yes, a mother’s first mission field is in her own home—what a beautiful thought. God has given the mother her work—there is no responsibility greater or holier—and the world is indebted to the mother who raises her children in the image of God (AH 192.1, 232.3-239.1, 243.1).

It’s the Little Things

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Will you trust God and obey His call today?

Discipleship and Movement

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God gave a unique dream to an Alangan believer that revealed a color-coded map that indicated just how many Tawbuid communities would be receptive to the gospel.

Editorial: April 2022

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Christ’s followers through all ages remain refugees, faithfully pursuing a better land where God resides and reigns. A time is soon coming when Sabbathkeepers worldwide, faithful to true worship, will also be forced from their homes as they flee persecution.

The Early Morning Miracle

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What is God’s plan for your life? Is He asking you to become an AFM missionary or support a current or future AFM missionary with your finances and prayers? Open your heart and let Him lead.

Transitions

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Strict COVID-19 lockdowns provided opportunities that otherwise may never have happened, including new house fellowships and Bible and baptismal studies within apartment blocks.

Editorial: March 2022

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Oh, Lord, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You” (Isaiah 26:3).

On the Path to AFM Mission Service

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! As God is calling you, He will equip you for ministry to share the love of Jesus and His present truth for this time with those who have never had an opportunity to hear the plan of salvation.

Commitment to Accountability

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Adventist Frontier Missions ranks in top 3% of American charities for 10 consecutive years.

Are We There Yet?

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By using your skills and talents, you can make our aging vehicle, Model Earth Edition, start moving faster towards its ultimate destination: a rescue by our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, at His second coming (2 Peter 3:11-12). Don’t complain that we have not made it to heaven yet. Do something about it instead—now!—and help us all get there sooner.

The Haystack

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You are hungry. Very hungry. Hungry for more than just what is on the table at potluck. You are hungry for an encounter with Jesus like these young people experienced two centuries ago. You want to experience another haystack prayer meeting in your life so that you (and some of your friends) will take the everlasting gospel and the Advent message to the unreached.

Hearing the Call

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Your donations to AFM’s student missionary program really do change lives. They bless the world for generations. On behalf of the nations—thank you.

Editorial: February 2022

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Feel like learning and growing, too? Our Father is a God of opportunity. Go to www.afmonline.org and click on Serve.

Finished Through the Goodness of Almighty God

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You have the opportunity to influence an entire people group for Christ. Will you express your thankfulness to God for His salvation by choosing to share Jesus with them in their language and cultural context?

Editorial: January 2022

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With what our society has served us over the course of 2021, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and, perhaps, even overcome. But Christ brings the freedom to hope, dream, plan and move forward in faith.

A Wonderful Problem

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I do not talk about our office needs very often. But having funds to pursue the plans listed above would allow us to improve our service to you, our missionaries and most importantly, the unreached.

New Trials - New Thinking

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As this year comes to a close, and we transition to a new year, let us praise God for how He has blessed His people.

Editorial: December 2021

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Can you smell the victory? We are nearly home.

No Turning Back!

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Jesus is calling you to take the everlasting gospel to the unreached people of the world. You need not be afraid.

To Be Living is Sublime

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Together let us remain faithful to the task before us as believers: to spread the everlasting gospel to the four corners of the world.

Editorial: November 2021

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Rejoice . . . always! What “pressed down and running over” blessings will you share with others?

Winning the Prize

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By God’s grace, let us all meet at the finish line! Until then, be faithful.

Editorial: October 2021

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Cross-cultural missionaries learn and experience first-hand how to build relationships through hospitality and generosity.

What If He Had Said “NO”?

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More than two hundred missionaries had already left Herrnhut for the mission field. Who knows how many of those he was directly supporting. It was a staggering accomplishment.