Anthony Parker, DMin
Anthony Parker coordinates Pioneer Bible Translators’ relationship with our Global Partner organizations in Brazil, Canada, Poland, and Ukraine. He helps prepare future field workers by serving as a training coach in our Formation Department and as an adjunct professor of Intercultural Studies at Johnson University. He came to Pioneer Bible in 2011 after serving 13 years as a missionary in West Africa and four years in pastoral ministry in the U.S. Anthony holds M.A. and M.Div. degrees, focused on missions and evangelism, from Abilene Christian University and a D.Min. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Anthony collaborated with Gailyn Van Rheenen in the second edition of Missions: Biblical Foundations and Contemporary Strategies (Zondervan, 2014). He and his wife Maureen have two adult sons.
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Feature Story Reading and discussing Scripture in their heart language led a group of West African men to follow Jesus at great personal cost. Sixteen years ago: I sat with my best friend, Ousman, in the West African village …
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Feature Story Reading and discussing Scripture in their heart language led a group of West African men to follow Jesus at great personal cost. Sixteen years ago: I sat with my best friend, Ousman, in the West African village …
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Feature Story Reading and discussing Scripture in their heart language led a group of West African men to follow Jesus at great personal cost. Sixteen years ago: I sat with my best friend, Ousman, in the West African village …
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They Chose Jesus
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Feature Story Reading and discussing Scripture in their heart language led a group of West African men to follow Jesus at great personal cost. Sixteen years ago: I sat with my best friend, Ousman, in the West African village …
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Feature Story Reading and discussing Scripture in their heart language led a group of West African men to follow Jesus at great personal cost. Sixteen years ago: I sat with my best friend, Ousman, in the West African village …
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Feature Story “I was trying to figure out if God was still good.” Denise shades her eyes from the sun and watches me. I brush ants off my legs as I scribble the statement on my yellow notepad. It looks……
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Feature Story “I was trying to figure out if God was still good.” Denise shades her eyes from the sun and watches me. I brush ants off my legs as I scribble the statement on my yellow notepad. It looks……
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Feature Story “I was trying to figure out if God was still good.” Denise shades her eyes from the sun and watches me. I brush ants off my legs as I scribble the statement on my yellow notepad. It looks……
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The Charcoal Ladies
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Feature Story “I was trying to figure out if God was still good.” Denise shades her eyes from the sun and watches me. I brush ants off my legs as I scribble the statement on my yellow notepad. It looks……
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Feature Story “I was trying to figure out if God was still good.” Denise shades her eyes from the sun and watches me. I brush ants off my legs as I scribble the statement on my yellow notepad. It looks……
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Feature Story Feature Story The Tay people of Papua New Guinea celebrate receiving their New Testament. Dedicated in 2014, it is having a transforming impact in their churches and communities. Focus on Bible Translation Bible translat…
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Feature Story Feature Story The Tay people of Papua New Guinea celebrate receiving their New Testament. Dedicated in 2014, it is having a transforming impact in their churches and communities. Focus on Bible Translation Bible translat…
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Feature Story Feature Story The Tay people of Papua New Guinea celebrate receiving their New Testament. Dedicated in 2014, it is having a transforming impact in their churches and communities. Focus on Bible Translation Bible translat…
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Weaving Words
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Feature Story Feature Story The Tay people of Papua New Guinea celebrate receiving their New Testament. Dedicated in 2014, it is having a transforming impact in their churches and communities. Focus on Bible Translation Bible translat…
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Feature Story Feature Story The Tay people of Papua New Guinea celebrate receiving their New Testament. Dedicated in 2014, it is having a transforming impact in their churches and communities. Focus on Bible Translation Bible translat…
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A whip cracked outside the wood and thatch church building. Children screamed and ran. Adults, packed onto the log…
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A whip cracked outside the wood and thatch church building. Children screamed and ran. Adults, packed onto the log…
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A whip cracked outside the wood and thatch church building. Children screamed and ran. Adults, packed onto the log…
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Breaking Traditions: How Matthew 15 Resonated in a Mapa Church
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A whip cracked outside the wood and thatch church building. Children screamed and ran. Adults, packed onto the log…
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A whip cracked outside the wood and thatch church building. Children screamed and ran. Adults, packed onto the log…
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We were on home assignment from our ministries in Papua New Guinea. A generous gift enabled my husband and me to spend several days in Arizona. I don’t think I could ever tire of seeing barrel cactus, prickly pear, and — especi…
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We were on home assignment from our ministries in Papua New Guinea. A generous gift enabled my husband and me to spend several days in Arizona. I don’t think I could ever tire of seeing barrel cactus, prickly pear, and — especi…
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We were on home assignment from our ministries in Papua New Guinea. A generous gift enabled my husband and me to spend several days in Arizona. I don’t think I could ever tire of seeing barrel cactus, prickly pear, and — especi…
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Streams of Living Water
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We were on home assignment from our ministries in Papua New Guinea. A generous gift enabled my husband and me to spend several days in Arizona. I don’t think I could ever tire of seeing barrel cactus, prickly pear, and — especi…
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We were on home assignment from our ministries in Papua New Guinea. A generous gift enabled my husband and me to spend several days in Arizona. I don’t think I could ever tire of seeing barrel cactus, prickly pear, and — especi…
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Since 2020, our family has moved all of our belongings five times to five different houses, stayed in too many hotels to count, and slept on the couches, beds, and floors of all our closest relatives. We’ve been looking for “home” in one way or another for t…
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Since 2020, our family has moved all of our belongings five times to five different houses, stayed in too many hotels to count, and slept on the couches, beds, and floors of all our closest relatives. We’ve been looking for “home” in one way or another for t…
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Since 2020, our family has moved all of our belongings five times to five different houses, stayed in too many hotels to count, and slept on the couches, beds, and floors of all our closest relatives. We’ve been looking for “home” in one way or another for t…
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Home Hunting
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Since 2020, our family has moved all of our belongings five times to five different houses, stayed in too many hotels to count, and slept on the couches, beds, and floors of all our closest relatives. We’ve been looking for “home” in one way or another for t…
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Since 2020, our family has moved all of our belongings five times to five different houses, stayed in too many hotels to count, and slept on the couches, beds, and floors of all our closest relatives. We’ve been looking for “home” in one way or another for t…
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Moving to a new country and new culture is full of surprises. One surprise for me when I moved to Southeast Asia was that every single temple is filled with idols. There is not just one idol per temple. We once vi…
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Moving to a new country and new culture is full of surprises. One surprise for me when I moved to Southeast Asia was that every single temple is filled with idols. There is not just one idol per temple. We once vi…
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Moving to a new country and new culture is full of surprises. One surprise for me when I moved to Southeast Asia was that every single temple is filled with idols. There is not just one idol per temple. We once vi…
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How Much Sacrifice is Enough?
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Moving to a new country and new culture is full of surprises. One surprise for me when I moved to Southeast Asia was that every single temple is filled with idols. There is not just one idol per temple. We once vi…
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Moving to a new country and new culture is full of surprises. One surprise for me when I moved to Southeast Asia was that every single temple is filled with idols. There is not just one idol per temple. We once vi…
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Decades ago Dave and Alice Parrish and their daughters established their home among the Mbore people in order to translate God’s Word for them. The people’s hope that they would one day have Scripture in their own language began to be realized. In the ensuing years the Parrishes e…
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Decades ago Dave and Alice Parrish and their daughters established their home among the Mbore people in order to translate God’s Word for them. The people’s hope that they would one day have Scripture in their own language began to be realized. In the ensuing years the Parrishes e…
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Decades ago Dave and Alice Parrish and their daughters established their home among the Mbore people in order to translate God’s Word for them. The people’s hope that they would one day have Scripture in their own language began to be realized. In the ensuing years the Parrishes e…
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Hope!
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Decades ago Dave and Alice Parrish and their daughters established their home among the Mbore people in order to translate God’s Word for them. The people’s hope that they would one day have Scripture in their own language began to be realized. In the ensuing years the Parrishes e…
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Decades ago Dave and Alice Parrish and their daughters established their home among the Mbore people in order to translate God’s Word for them. The people’s hope that they would one day have Scripture in their own language began to be realized. In the ensuing years the Parrishes e…
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When I met Jesus, I recognized him right away. I sat there staring into the campfire as we sang, “Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me, the Bible tells me so.” Suddenly my heart leapt in recognition. Me! He loves me! I s…
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When I met Jesus, I recognized him right away. I sat there staring into the campfire as we sang, “Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me, the Bible tells me so.” Suddenly my heart leapt in recognition. Me! He loves me! I s…
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When I met Jesus, I recognized him right away. I sat there staring into the campfire as we sang, “Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me, the Bible tells me so.” Suddenly my heart leapt in recognition. Me! He loves me! I s…
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Recognizing Jesus
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When I met Jesus, I recognized him right away. I sat there staring into the campfire as we sang, “Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me, the Bible tells me so.” Suddenly my heart leapt in recognition. Me! He loves me! I s…
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When I met Jesus, I recognized him right away. I sat there staring into the campfire as we sang, “Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me, the Bible tells me so.” Suddenly my heart leapt in recognition. Me! He loves me! I s…
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One time I pierced my nose with a thorn. Actually someone else did — I just sat there as the thorn pushed steadily through my nose, my eyes closed peacefully, measuring my breaths, water seeping out of my eye…
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One time I pierced my nose with a thorn. Actually someone else did — I just sat there as the thorn pushed steadily through my nose, my eyes closed peacefully, measuring my breaths, water seeping out of my eye…
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One time I pierced my nose with a thorn. Actually someone else did — I just sat there as the thorn pushed steadily through my nose, my eyes closed peacefully, measuring my breaths, water seeping out of my eye…
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I Pierced My Nose With a Thorn
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One time I pierced my nose with a thorn. Actually someone else did — I just sat there as the thorn pushed steadily through my nose, my eyes closed peacefully, measuring my breaths, water seeping out of my eye…
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One time I pierced my nose with a thorn. Actually someone else did — I just sat there as the thorn pushed steadily through my nose, my eyes closed peacefully, measuring my breaths, water seeping out of my eye…
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