A Prophetic Word (December 1983)  From my perch in the little café on the town square, Piata Unirii, I watch people shuffle past clutching cheap burlap carry-bags, probably hoping to…

In 1974 when we were living in Pleiku in the central highlands of Viet Nam, there were many attacks on the villages in the area, particularly between Pleiku and the…

Before the modern era, missionaries packed their belongings in coffins with the sobering knowledge their bodies would likely return in them! Prospective missionaries were fully cognizant of the ultimate sacrifice…

Cristina and her husband were our neighbours in Guadalajara; they lived on the corner of the next block, on our way to the preschool our boys attended. Many days we…

It was February 9, 2009, a sad day in my life. I was leaving Venezuela. My colleague Rebecca Rodríguez and I were the last international workers (IWs) to leave the…

Casting out demons, healing the sick, and healing deep psychological wounds are biblical events we saw happen in our ministry. God took two very ordinary people with very ordinary stories…

By Karissa Delamont   Growing up in the Alliance, I had heard the name Miriam Charter. Single missionary serving in Romania back before the iron curtain fell. But it wasn’t…

A changed life greatly encouraged us in our second year of language study. It is the story of an elderly lady named Elena Feodorevna, the mother of a young couple…

We were sitting around in a circle discussing the community health needs in a remote region of the Bateke Plateau in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It had been…

“It’s Dave Golding! Is Denise here?” Those simple words will always be etched in my memory as they rocked my world and changed the direction of my life forever. I…