https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog en Copyright 2023 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/your-next-career-change https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/your-next-career-change#When:15:30:00Z 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?

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-miracle-text https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-miracle-text#When:15:30:00Z God is calling His people to go and share the everlasting gospel with the unreached people of the world.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-effect-of-compounding https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-effect-of-compounding#When:15:30:00Z Whether in planned giving or front-line mission service, the greatest compounding effect can only be achieved by starting now.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-february-2023 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-february-2023#When:15:30:00Z 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”

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/contrails https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/contrails#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/not-ashamed-of-the-gospel https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/not-ashamed-of-the-gospel#When:15:30:00Z “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).

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-march-2023 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-march-2023#When:15:30:00Z Jesus is returning soon, and roughly 42 percent of the world remains unreached. What will give us the courage to choose transformation?

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/have-it-all https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/have-it-all#When:15:30:00Z 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?

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/expectations2 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/expectations2#When:15:30:00Z May the God of “all things good” be with you throughout this new year! 

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-january-2023 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-january-2023#When:15:30:00Z May we each commit to hiding the word of God in our hearts in 2023.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/he-is-the-gift https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/he-is-the-gift#When:15:30:00Z Please prayerfully consider going to share the light of this Gift with the unreached who sit in darkness.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/looking-back-looking-forward-and-looking-up https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/looking-back-looking-forward-and-looking-up#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-missionary-body-a-parable https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-missionary-body-a-parable#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-december-2022 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-december-2022#When:15:30:00Z Let us love one another, extending His grace and providing each other with hope and courage to change—the story of the manger.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/faith-points https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/faith-points#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/sawm-the-fourth-pillar-of-islam https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/sawm-the-fourth-pillar-of-islam#When:15:30:00Z Muslims believe that true dreams will come during the month of Ramadan. 

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-november-2022 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-november-2022#When:15:30:00Z May your hearts be filled with His love, peace and joy. There would be no AFM team without you.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/end-pain-bring-joy https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/end-pain-bring-joy#When:15:30:00Z We want to invite you to experience this joy—eternal joy—in knowing that you have introduced others to the Savior.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-greatest-need https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-greatest-need#When:15:30:00Z You can be the answer to His greatest need and the needs of the unreached.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/zakat-the-third-pillar-of-islam https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/zakat-the-third-pillar-of-islam#When:15:30:00Z 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).

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-october-2022 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-october-2022#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/a-parable-of-the-harvest-and-the-laborers https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/a-parable-of-the-harvest-and-the-laborers#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/growing-in-jesus-and-serving-the-unreached https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/growing-in-jesus-and-serving-the-unreached#When:15:30:00Z God will do incredible things through these young people because of your prayers and their efforts this coming year.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/why-give3 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/why-give3#When:15:30:00Z “will you not help in this great work?
I beseech you to do something for Christ, and do it now.”

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-roaring-lion https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-roaring-lion#When:15:30:00Z Please prayerfully consider how you can be one of His guides by going to the mission field or helping to send others. 

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/salah-the-second-pillar-of-islam https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/salah-the-second-pillar-of-islam#When:15:30:00Z Let us invite Muslims to pray with us whenever we mingle with them.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-september-2022 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-september-2022#When:15:30:00Z Where do you find Jesus in your story?

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/afm-launches-new-donor-system https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/afm-launches-new-donor-system#When:15:30:00Z Instructions on how to use the new donor giving system.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/in-memory-of-marianne-hollister https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/in-memory-of-marianne-hollister#When:15:30:00Z Marianne Hollister (January 11, 1953 – August 16, 2022)

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/now https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/now#When:15:30:00Z 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?

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-five-pillars-of-islam https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-five-pillars-of-islam#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/its-time-to-let-go https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/its-time-to-let-go#When:15:30:00Z “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust [inflation] doth corrupt” (Matthew 6:19).

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-august-2022 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-august-2022#When:15:30:00Z “Now is the time to decorate our hearts with unselfish love and stubborn kindness”—Alexa Sharma, AFM missionary.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/gods-mission-statement https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/gods-mission-statement#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/a-caucasus-kaleidoscope https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/a-caucasus-kaleidoscope#When:15:30:00Z A whirlwind tour and Caucasus kaleidoscope. Oh, the joy of seeing the Spirit at work!

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-july-2022 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-july-2022#When:15:30:00Z We serve a God full of surprises.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/hiring-afm-center-facilities-manager https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/hiring-afm-center-facilities-manager#When:15:30:00Z Job Opening: AFM Center Facilities Manager

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/clap-clap-clap https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/clap-clap-clap#When:15:30:00Z 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

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-poppy-seed https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-poppy-seed#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-june-2022 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-june-2022#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/its-planting-time https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/its-planting-time#When:15:30:00Z God takes our seeded efforts and brings forth a great harvest.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/apples-cat-videos-the-unreached-and-you https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/apples-cat-videos-the-unreached-and-you#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/captives-of-conscience https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/captives-of-conscience#When:15:30:00Z 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).

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/reflections2 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/reflections2#When:15:30:00Z “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. 

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-may-2022 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-may-2022#When:15:30:00Z 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).

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/its-the-little-things https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/its-the-little-things#When:15:30:00Z Will you trust God and obey His call today?

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/discipleship-and-movement https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/discipleship-and-movement#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-april-2022 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-april-2022#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-early-morning-miracle https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-early-morning-miracle#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/transitions2 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/transitions2#When:15:30:00Z Strict COVID-19 lockdowns provided opportunities that otherwise may never have happened, including new house fellowships and Bible and baptismal studies within apartment blocks.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-march-2022 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-march-2022#When:15:30:00Z Oh, Lord, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You” (Isaiah 26:3).

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/on-the-path-to-afm-mission-service https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/on-the-path-to-afm-mission-service#When:15:30:00Z ! 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/commitment-to-accountability https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/commitment-to-accountability#When:15:30:00Z Adventist Frontier Missions ranks in top 3% of American charities for 10 consecutive years.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/are-we-there-yet https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/are-we-there-yet#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-haystack https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-haystack#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/hearing-the-call https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/hearing-the-call#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-february-2022 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-february-2022#When:15:30:00Z Feel like learning and growing, too? Our Father is a God of opportunity. Go to www.afmonline.org and click on Serve.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/finished-through-the-goodness-of-almighty-god https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/finished-through-the-goodness-of-almighty-god#When:15:30:00Z 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?

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-january-2022 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-january-2022#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/a-wonderful-problem https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/a-wonderful-problem#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/new-trials-new-thinking https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/new-trials-new-thinking#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-december-2021 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-december-2021#When:15:30:00Z Can you smell the victory?  We are nearly home.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/no-turning-back2 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/no-turning-back2#When:15:30:00Z Jesus is calling you to take the everlasting gospel to the unreached people of the world.  You need not be afraid.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/to-be-living-is-sublime https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/to-be-living-is-sublime#When:15:30:00Z Together let us remain faithful to the task before us as believers: to spread the everlasting gospel to the four corners of the world. 

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-november-2021 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-november-2021#When:15:30:00Z Rejoice . . . always! What “pressed down and running over” blessings will you share with others? 

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/winning-the-prize https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/winning-the-prize#When:15:30:00Z By God’s grace, let us all meet at the finish line! Until then, be faithful.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-october-2021 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-october-2021#When:15:30:00Z Cross-cultural missionaries learn and experience first-hand how to build relationships through hospitality and generosity.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/what-if-he-had-said-no https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/what-if-he-had-said-no#When:15:30:00Z 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.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/fear-not https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/fear-not#When:15:30:00Z “Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee…” (Joshua 1:9)

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/newly-equipped-christian-soldiers https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/newly-equipped-christian-soldiers#When:15:30:00Z We invite you to prayerfully consider God’s call on your life. Next year could be the best year of your life, learning to trust the Savior fully while serving as a Christian soldier.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-september-2021 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-september-2021#When:15:30:00Z How do we define the more abundant life? What are its qualities? Many are the answers given depending on who you ask and when.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/gifts-for-such-a-time-part-1 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/gifts-for-such-a-time-part-1#When:15:30:00Z “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving” -Amy Carmichael

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/together https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/together#When:15:30:00Z If the picture of heaven is to be complete, someone must do something now. The gift of the gospel that you have is precious; you cannot simply stand by and wait for someone else to share it for you. Will you join us in helping to make the dream of reaching every people group a reality today?

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-august-2021 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-august-2021#When:15:30:00Z Like Paul, always trust God and learn to gracefully accept all things and be content. Or, if we have not quite rounded that corner yet but still have a teachable spirit from our compassionate Savior, be willing to take that next opportunity to allow God to form you in His image.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/impossible https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/impossible#When:15:30:00Z Over 40% of the world is still unreached and needs to hear about the salvation offered through Christ. Through human eyes, the remaining task is impossible and insurmountable. But the stories in the Bible demonstrate that what is impossible with man is possible with God.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/wealth-transfer-and-abraham https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/wealth-transfer-and-abraham#When:15:30:00Z Pray about serving as a Platinum Missionary — on one-year recurring service cycles, and pass on the greatest wealth of all — the Everlasting Gospel.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-july-2021 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-july-2021#When:15:30:00Z I thank you for the prayers you have already been praying for me, and I look forward to joining you in the adventure — immersed in stories demonstrating gospel outreach and Christian love in practical ways.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/between-worlds-third-culture-kids https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/between-worlds-third-culture-kids#When:15:30:00Z MKs, you are part of a special group of people who have paid a price for loving others. We owe you a debt of gratitude. May your reward be rich in Heaven through the lives rescued by Him who loves all.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/when-i-was-a-child https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/when-i-was-a-child#When:15:30:00Z It’s not too late to be a missionary. Jesus can help you revive and realize those dreams. You can be a teacher, a mother, a nurse, an accountant, a father or nearly any other role. Take your children with you to the mission field. The important thing is to go and show the people the love of Jesus.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/emerging-from-the-jungles-of-png https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/emerging-from-the-jungles-of-png#When:15:30:00Z Yes, being a third-culture kid can be tough at times, but who doesn’t have challenges? Each difficulty is an invitation to humble ourselves under the hand of God. In the end, the blessings are much bigger than the trials, and I wouldn’t have chosen my life to be any different!

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-june-2021 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-june-2021#When:15:30:00Z The good news is that God promises us escape, and His angels assist us every day in every trial. Lean on Jesus. Trust Him. Deliverance is near.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/one https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/one#When:15:30:00Z Will you join them? Will you be a missionary? You may be only one person, but through God, one person can save a city from eternal destruction; one person can save a people group from extinction; one person can be an incredible witness to many nations; and one person can tell the whole world of the marvelous works they have seen God perform.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/move-forwardhindsight-is-so-2020 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/move-forwardhindsight-is-so-2020#When:15:30:00Z Move forward in faith, trusting God to lead you into the greatest adventure of your life.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/othnielthe-power-of-god https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/othnielthe-power-of-god#When:15:30:00Z God acts through human agents, and there is no limit to what He can achieve through an individual fully consecrated to Him.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-may-2021 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-may-2021#When:15:30:00Z Though I may be done changing and refining them, I’m certain they aren’t done challenging, changing and refining me.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/friendly-student-missionaries-and-the-helpful-menace https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/friendly-student-missionaries-and-the-helpful-menace#When:15:30:00Z If you would like to be a student missionary, why not give us a call? And if you are unable to go but can support those who do, remember that student missionaries rely on the Student Missionary Fund for about 60 percent of their ministry support.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-april-2021 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-april-2021#When:15:30:00Z Do you like surprises? Then you should pray about giving a year to student missions. But one thing should not surprise you: Your life will never be the same again.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-march-2021 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-march-2021#When:15:30:00Z How do you feel about the future? Are you holding onto today or striving for tomorrow? The future is unfolding according to a divine blueprint, and there is much work to be done. What part will you play?

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-unseen-vision https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-unseen-vision#When:15:30:00Z In many ways, planned giving is similar to gardening. It starts with a vision of what could be.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/two-opportunities https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/two-opportunities#When:15:30:00Z You have heard the need. If God has been nudging you to respond “I will go,” then let’s chat!

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/loyalty-and-talents https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/loyalty-and-talents#When:15:30:00Z I praise God that in such a hostile world in which so many say, “We do not want this man to rule over us,” so many are faithfully using the talents God has given them in sacrificial prayer, giving and front-line service that the Good News of His return might be proclaimed worldwide.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-february-2021 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-february-2021#When:15:30:00Z Are your life circumstances tempting you to react in fear? Are you despised and under attack? Perhaps you are being given a gift like Raphael’s—an opportunity to shine like never before for your Savior.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/opportunities-in-2021 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/opportunities-in-2021#When:15:30:00Z May 2021 be the year when you choose to go. Your hands, skills and passions are needed in the mission frontier today.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/i-had-a-dream.-can-you-help-me https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/i-had-a-dream.-can-you-help-me#When:15:30:00Z God is revealing Himself through dreams and visions, even directing seeking Muslims straight to our Dream Project website!

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-january-2021 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-january-2021#When:15:30:00Z As I scanned down the stories, I was transfixed. Each dream was unique, and yet they all had the same golden threads running through them—a Man in white, an invitation to worship, a call to scripture study, and the pronouncement that gripped my heart: “Get ready. I am coming soon.”

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-spiritual-battle-take-heart https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/the-spiritual-battle-take-heart#When:15:30:00Z As 2020 draws to a close, I want to thank you for investing in God’s kingdom. Thank you for sacrificially giving so that the unreached can hear the Good News about Jesus and take heart for the world to come!

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/how-palawan-changed-my-life https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/how-palawan-changed-my-life#When:15:30:00Z Is God calling you to make a change in your life? Accept the calling! Get out of your comfort zone. Teach others who are in desperate need of Christ’s love. After all, nothing in this life matters more than service to God.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/end-of-the-time-of-the-end https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/end-of-the-time-of-the-end#When:15:30:00Z We are not only looking forward with anticipation to 2021 and what God will do among the unreached, but we are also looking forward to the end of the Time of the End, when “. . . Michael, the great prince, the protector of your people, shall arise” (Dan. 12:1).

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-december-2020 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/editorial-december-2020#When:15:30:00Z In a thousand ways you have inspired us by your dedication and sacrifice, and we are deeply grateful. May God richly bless you—flour, sugar, oil and salt.

]]> 2023-03-15T15:30:00+00:00 https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/remembering-lilly-williams https://afmonline.org/home-office-blog/detail/remembering-lilly-williams#When:15:30:00Z Our dear colleague and friend, Lilly May Williams, died Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020, at Hanson Hospice Center in Stevensville, MI. She was 68 years old.

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