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It started with a tickle. On November 13th, 2023, I first noticed a tickle in my throat. Three days into an evangelistic series at one of my churches, I hoped it wasn’t the start of a cold or flu. I didn’t experience any other symptoms, so I chalked it up…
Imagine a wedding where the guests number into the thousands. In Tai-Kadai culture, when you are invited to someone’s house or to a special event, it is commonly expected that you will bring a friend along. If you invite a friend over, always expect that two people will show up.…
As field directors, part of our responsibility is to visit the missionaries once a year at each of the projects we supervise. It is always interesting to see how our workers interact with the local people and how the people respond to them. Last October was no different when we…
“Haha, hehe,” Teeka panted as she ran. Teeka’s sister-in-law Mia was pregnant with her second baby, and Teeka and Lang, midwives, had been doing prenatal care for her. That morning, people from the village called to say that Mia was in labor, so Teeka and Lang were running up the…
Experiencing its worst flooding in over 30 years, Southern Thailand has seen the water levels rise as high as five meters (16 feet) in some areas near the Malaysian border. While we all hope never to be involved in a natural disaster, when one occurs, I believe that if we…
In the cool darkness of early morning with rain drumming on the roof, Teeka had been so tired she did not hear her husband’s phone ringing. Her husband, Sonal, had to shake her awake. “Mia is having pain.” Sonal’s brother Neben was on the phone because his wife Mia was…
“What’s one thing you have always wanted to learn?” we asked the college students as an icebreaker question during one of our game nights last fall. We had been taking advantage of the nice weather to meet outside on Sabbaths, eating snacks on picnic blankets on a grassy park lawn.…
“Please do not leave me here. Wherever you want to go, I will go with you. Never in my life have I experienced the love you have shown me,” Spice said. In August 2023, I wrote about looking for a person of influence in our community. In that article, I…
“For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten” (Ecclesiastes 9:5). “I have been at rock bottom. I would look at the sky and think there was no way out. If I could have, I…
We are one step closer to launching our mission project for the Animists of Central Africa. Praise God for your generosity that has brought us safely here. I left Conakry, Guinea, on Monday, February 17, for a flight that lasted 12 hours before landing in the country of my project…