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…

Ethel Jean Moorehouse, former missionary to the Philippines with The Alliance Canada moved on to her heavenly inheritance on March 31, 2021. Ethel was born and grew up in Prince…

Family Life In 1897, a few months before turning twenty-four, Robert Jaffray and three other new missionaries travelled by ship to China. Jaffray and Dr. Robert Glover arrived in Guangxi…

“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…

Our Early Days Ruth: I had an unhappy childhood in Malaysia. I was unloved when I was young. My only wish was to run away from home. Death frightened me,…

Prison Ministry It was a pleasant afternoon during the rainy season. Everything was green, and the sun had just come out. I decided to walk to the church in the…

Mamou, Driver Ants, and Measles Africa! My first stop was a year at the missionary kid school at Mamou, Guinea, where I was the school nurse. It was a beautiful…

During our third year (1977), the American Alliance head office in Nyack determined the Hong Kong field should start a radio ministry to mainland China. The field administration was not…

Early in 2014, a young man came to the “Nations Learning Center” (NLC). Amir* was really outgoing and became a regular at our English classes. In 2015, when we began…

Dave Petrescue was a Canadian of Romanian and Ukrainian descent. His childhood was spent on a farm in southern Saskatchewan, where the daily chores and many tasks instilled a solid…