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“I haven’t slept at night for a long time,” said Papa Fil. “The spirits bother me every night.” When one works with God, there is always work, and Fidel and our evangelists, Boniface and Timothy, were busy spending a week working in a village not far from Boniface’s home village.…
“Do you know why our people go to the forest to sacrifice?” Basile asked. The old man shrugged. He had never thought about why. “Would you like to know?” And so Basile began telling the story of Eve wandering through the Garden of Eden until she came to the tree…
Noura Fourteen-year-old Gladys scrunched her forehead, chewing the end of her pencil and jiggling her right knee up and down. She liked math, but she was getting tired. Just two more problems, she thought. She scribbled some more 2’s, 3’s, x’s and y’s. “There!” She said with a sigh of…
Once a week, Cindy and I lead out in a Bible study. The last time our small group met, we read Matthew 28:19, 20 and asked, “Who did Jesus give the Great Commission to?” One person said it was only given to Jesus’ disciples, reasoning that, just as Isaiah, Jeremiah…
During this past holiday season, the Lord really highlighted the word “wait” to me. In Croatia, the Advent season is widely celebrated, a time spent awaiting Jesus’ birth. As our children waited to open their gifts, they impatiently counted down to Christmas, each day asking how many more days they…
Our first year with AFM—training, fundraising and stepping into the unknown—reshaped us in ways we never expected. Looking back, five lessons stand out clearly. First: Ministry is a family calling, not a parental one. Our children have proven to be the most adaptable, gracious teammates we could ask for. They…
Did you know that many Orthodox countries follow two calendars and therefore celebrate Christmas and New Year’s twice? They do! In places like Georgia, the celebrations stretch from December 25 to January 14, and remarkably, most of these days are official holidays. As some of our favorite holidays approached, we…
Within our small community of about sixty people, we have had the opportunity to make many friends, most of whom we are beginning to know by name. And being part of the team that serves breakfast to the homeless has been a huge blessing. That is how we met Nikko,…
“The other night I had a dream,” said the roughly 35-year-old man as he and his wife sat on the pew recounting the experiences leading up to their acceptance of Christ. “In my dream, a man told me that I must come to this church and get baptized. I found…
A slight dread pulsed through me. It was the first day back to school after the Christmas break, and my brain did not feel up to par with the Croatian language. I was also running a couple of minutes late. I walked into class, and my instructor greeted me with…