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One evening, my parents had a shocking surprise for my brother and me. “Boys, we are going to be missionaries,” my father and mother said. I froze. A bunch of thoughts suddenly ran through my mind at top speed. “Am I going to be persecuted?” I asked. “Japan is a…
“I believe God exists. I have had experiences in my life where I knew God helped me. But I have questions. Why did Japan kill 20 million Chinese? Why did Hitler kill so many? What about Pol Pot?” one of my worker friends, the cabinet installer, asked. For the last…
You’re going to get sick,” our field director, Dale Goodson, forewarned us before we departed for Ama. We counted the cost and prayerfully moved forward in faith. When Joella and I arrived in Papua New Guinea and finally met the Ama in April, we were overjoyed. So were the Ama.…
“We pray for you every day,” said a supporter at one of our churches, my hand held fast in theirs. All I could say was, “Thank you so much, we need them!” How can you properly thank someone who brings your name before the King of kings on a daily…
While we were in Japan for our vision trip, we took a short train ride from the train station near our hotel to Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. We had a simple task: purchase a PASMO card from the PASMO vending machine. This rechargeable smart card would allow us to use…
I always thought a spiritual leader should be smart and confident, spiritually strong, able to teach and possess good people skills. I was wrong. The people God is bringing to me who are willing to be trained as disciple-makers are new believers with a budding faith and an average intelligence,…
“Go slow to go fast,” we teach our missionaries. Adventist Frontier Missions exists to establish indigenous Seventh-day Adventist church- planting movements among unreached people groups. When we talk about movements, however, some people worry. A movement involves rapid multiplication. Could this allow for spiritual immaturity and unbiblical beliefs to creep…
“Can you buy meat in America?” my friend asked. “Of course,” I replied, “Why couldn’t we?” “Well, I have never seen any American eat meat before.” Serving as a student missionary at the time, I chuckled silently to myself, thinking about what Americans would do if they could not get…
In the lush, green hills of Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province, the Pnong people live in tight-knit communities, their lives woven with animist traditions and rituals that honor the spirits of forests and rivers. Yet, in this remote region, the Holy Spirit is moving, bringing new believers into the Seventh-day Adventist Church…
It was a chance meeting. Or was it? Traveling on a bus for five hours in a third-world country is usually an interesting experience, marked by delays, curious people, less-than-optimal roads, and other unexpected events. Steve and I were on a field director trip with Hadassah Song, traveling from the…