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When I was 12, my grandmother had a dream that I was standing in a large body of water, baptizing hundreds of people. Dreams have always held great significance in my family, and this one inspired my desire to be involved in mission work. It is a key reason why…
An hour after dark, I set out along the well-worn path across the top of the hill. I was looking forward to my bed after a long day. Behind me were my friend Opa and her young son Shane. As I trotted along, I suddenly heard a tone of alarm…
There is something powerful about imagining a great purpose, pouring every ounce of yourself into the dream and watching it come to fruition. Before building our house, we got a book with graph paper. In it, we carefully listed every part the house would need. Bedrooms. Office. Kitchen. Living and…
“I’m gonna go plant it!” River, who is four years old, would exclaim about the seed after devouring a delicious tropical fruit. With the juice still dripping from his chin, he would race to the backyard and pop his latest seed into our garden bed. Longans, lychees, durian, rambutan, it…
“I’m sorry. You will have to camp,” our coworker said. Several months ago, she invited us to join her on her farm. Camping sounded like fun to us. We arrived in time to eat the delicious supper that she had prepared for us. As we sat around the fire, she…
I never imagined God would call me to Japan. But since first learning about Japan’s spiritual needs, my heart has been burdened. Less than one percent of the population knows Jesus. Many have never heard His name. And yet, Japan is full of spiritual searching—people bowing at shrines, clapping to…
“Tears are words the heart can’t express.” – Unknown With the deepest purpose, tears well up from the smallest glands. Born in the lacrimal glands just above the eye, they spill forth not just to cleanse and protect but to speak—of sorrow, joy, relief and everything in between. Silent messengers…
“Are you sure that quote is real?” I asked incredulously. The elder from the house church we were visiting assured me it was. “If God the Father and Jesus had swapped places, nothing would have changed.” The concept should not have seemed new. Had not Jesus said in one place,…
Turning down dusty roads. Weaving through bikes, motos, cars, trucks, tuk-tuks and pushcarts. Hearing the constant chatter of an unfamiliar language. Only a few months into my year as a student missionary in Southeast Asia, the words had seemed so foreign. Heading to the morning market, I whizzed down the…
Short, with a demure smile, a small voice and shoulder-length hair that curls at the ends, Robin avoids attention and conversation like a skittish waterbird. I first wrote about Robin in the November 2023 issue of Adventist Frontiers and named her after a bird because her Sinim name sounds like…