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Amna
Amna

It’s not that I haven’t been around dead babies before. This is a refugee camp in North Africa. Babies die every day. Malaria. Malnutrition. Dysentery. Other generic tragedies that make up the backdrop of a life marked by poverty and war. The story is...

The Pilot’s Words
The Pilot’s Words

I feel like I’m standing on holy ground as I watch these men reading Scripture in their own language. The pilot folded his hands and looked at us across the table. His eyes brightened and a smile crept across his face. “This week I get to fly Bibles. First...

Thirty Years and a Chicken
Thirty Years and a Chicken

Three decades ago Kyle and Kathy Harris began ministering among a people group deep in the tropical jungle in Papua New Guinea. The Nend people’s contact with the world beyond their territory had been very limited, and they’d been largely untouched by the Gospel....

Breaking Traditions: How Matthew 15 Resonated in a Mapa Church
Breaking Traditions: How Matthew 15 Resonated in a Mapa Church

A whip cracked outside the wood and thatch church building. Children screamed and ran. Adults, packed onto the log bench “pews,” tensed as they turned to look toward the entryway.  An old man stormed in, and his angry words tumbled out. My husband and I were still new...