I also want to write about how Mary and I became the hosts for the senior welfare missionaries. I had been serving in the Book of Mormon reading program for a few months and decided I would like to be a part time service missionaries. So after some meeting I dropped in at the Mehews...
Although her experience was long and horrific she made it worthwhile by learning to forgive even the unforgivable through the power of forgiveness and faith. After she had finally been able to escape the genocide, she became an immigrant of the United States and started writing books of her ...
Historians of African Christianity have recognised that ‘to read’, ‘to be a Christian’ and ‘to attend a church service’ are linguistically synonymous in a number of African languages, and thus Christian adherence, rites of worship, and literacy are bound within the same conceptual field.1T...
even the unloved. He showed love for the the missionaries in his daily service as a pilot, mechanic, handyman and friend. He loved the native Ecuadorians and the Shell Oil workers as he used his skills to help them as well. Then his love reached beyond the jungle barriers to ...
able to call people to follow him, with an emphasis on the Twelve Apostles, whom he would send out to preach the good news. (An apostle is a “sent one” or as we might say a “missionary”. The Twelve would become Christ’s special missionaries to establish the newly formed church....
In the book of Romans Paul has a primarily focus of writing to the Jews and Gentiles living in Rome. In a time of deep despair Paul sends letters of hope and encouragement to a group living in a hostile environment relatable to missionaries overseas worshipping to those who might not be ...
As the Napoleonic Wars are coming to an end, Sarah Barker sails from Portsmouth, England with her new husband on a voyage that brings violent storms and an attack by an American privateer. They are bound for South Africa, where they will serve as missionaries to the indigenous Khoi. ...
A number of western missionaries who had established mission centers in the country also had educational facilities which they availed to the people. The Chinese run schools (known as Shobo) were the most prevalent and had many students. The Christian mission schools normally catered for the child...
I come from a family of 10, not including my parents. I was adopted from Haiti, by a kind spirited, Christian, couple who were doing what the Lord sent them to do. They were missionaries, and nurses, serving abroad and ended up coming home with five babies from over there. It wasn’...