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First Trip to the Zoo
First Trip to the Zoo

Our West African friends Momodou and Laye are brilliant and fun-loving men. In his late fifties, Momodou has a satirical sense of humor, which reminds me of my brother Steve. Laye is much younger, about 30. He’s a sweet and kind gentleman, like my husband Chocho. Both...

“I Have Nothing to Fear”
“I Have Nothing to Fear”

“Your father died?” Laynah asked as I sat with her on the bark-slat porch outside her home. Laynah had become my friend during my family’s earliest months in Papua New Guinea. Our grass-roofed hut had been right across the narrow dirt road from hers when we had lived...

9 Ways to Pray for Third Culture Kids
9 Ways to Pray for Third Culture Kids

9 Ways to Pray for Third Culture Kids Third culture kids (TCKs), also known as MKs, have both the privilege and the challenge of growing up in their family’s place of ministry. Here are ways you can pray for TCKs, especially the children in missionary families you...

The Gift of Being Chosen
The Gift of Being Chosen

We didn't know what was going on, really, but just decided we should get in line because that's what everyone else was doing, and deep down, no one really wants to look out of place, right? The smiling faces and the beat of the drums let us know that this was a happy...

7 Ways to Pray for Missionaries in Hard Places
7 Ways to Pray for Missionaries in Hard Places

Pioneer Bible Translators serves among some of the world’s least-reached people groups. Many teammates live in physically and spiritually challenging circumstances. Your prayers for them matter! We invite you to pray specifically for missionaries you know personally...

Why Were the Shepherds Watching the Sheep?
Why Were the Shepherds Watching the Sheep?

“Where did this happen?” “Near Bethlehem.” “What kind of place is Bethlehem?” “A small village.” “What appeared in the sky?” “An angel.” Christmas was approaching, and the Apal people were about to hear Luke’s account of Jesus’ birth in their own language for the...

7 Ways to Pray for Missionaries in Hard Places
Thursday Prayer Focus: Confessions of a Homesick Missionary

It was Christmas Eve. I wasn’t in much of a holiday mood, though. The selection of potential gifts for our children had seemed pretty sparse in the local shops. Our artificial Christmas tree looked so pathetic cowering in its corner, and the abundant ornaments hanging...

Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays

In my North American world, Starbucks is selling Pumpkin Spice Lattes and Peppermint Mocha Cappuccinos. Thanksgiving with its bountiful feast is quickly approaching. The Christmas decorations, for sale since August, have been discounted. Radio stations are playing...

The Elder Knows A Roasted Peanut
The Elder Knows A Roasted Peanut

The Kawah people of West Africa have a proverb: “The elder knows a roasted peanut.” Though I don’t pretend to understand all this proverb’s nuances, I can tell you a couple of things about it. First, the Kawah people LOVE roasted peanuts! (So do I!) Peanuts play an...

Taste and See
Taste and See

At a crossroads in the dusty ground, the music reaches our ears. Just past the cozy gathering of houses and huts, yet near enough to be noticed, stands the small cement church in the village, much like a new child at school waiting for an invitation to play with the...