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Let’s just read it for class today,” Teacher P suggested. When I arrived to our one-on-one language class that mid-December afternoon, Teacher P motioned to a small book lying on a nearby chair. It looked like a Christmas card, but was actually a small pamphlet explaining the nativity story and…
CAUTION: It is important to travel slowly when using a motorized canoe to pass through villages or anywhere someone is likely to be washing sago. If you create a wave, it could fill the canoe with dirt or dump out the precious sago. If this happens, you are responsible for…
Are we there yet? Adventists are not the only ones asking this question regarding the return of Christ and the coming of God’s judgment and His eternal kingdom. Jesus will return when the right time comes, regardless of how ready or not we are to meet Him. That is really…
“I’m sorry. You can’t stay here,” the hotel receptionist told me as I tried to check our two new student missionaries (SMs) into the hotel where we had made reservations. “The entire hotel was booked by a group a month ago. The worker who took your reservation made a mistake,”…
After a year or so, I felt that Naoko-san and I were friends. She was one of my most advanced English students. She was in her early thirties and an intelligent person. I don’t remember how the conversation started but before I knew it, I was asking her about her…
In a small village nestled in the lush countryside of Cambodia lived a young boy named Sokha. Sokha was different from the other children in his village; he was autistic. His parents, loving and supportive, wanted the best for him and decided to enroll him in the local school, hoping…
Summers were always hot, and people, especially the children, looked for ways to cool off. Born and raised in the southern part of the United States, I remember swimming in lakes and rivers and splashing in streams from a young age. In the streams we would turn over rocks looking…
When we returned from our furlough, a big surprise awaited us when we visited our villages of Ndreh and Srae Thom. Before we had left on furlough, we advised them to take into their own hands the mission of Jesus without waiting for a foreigner or professional to do it.…
I am sure we have all heard or read stories of guardian angels. Sister White tells us that “A guardian angel is appointed to every follower of Christ” (The Great Controversy, p. 512) and is there by our side. I have mentioned in previous articles that my family were missionaries…
When Fray Diego de Landa, a Catholic missionary accompanying Spanish forces in the New World, discovered extensive Maya libraries, he knew what he would do. He burned them all, an event, he said, the Maya “regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction.” The books, in his…