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Marieke Mostert was only seven years old when she was hit by a car while cycling to school in the Netherlands. As she hovered between life and...
There’s a scene in the early moments of Peter Jackson’s movie, The Hobbit, that always makes me smile. Bilbo Baggins (the character from the title)...
I kept it a secret for two years. No one but my family knew how sick I really was.
When Turks look at Christians, they don’t think good thoughts. They think about Turkish history, about Constantine and the Crusades. They think...
While the Trinity might be hard to explain, I love the image of community found in God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God has created us for...
There was a moment when he wondered, “What am I doing here, trimming dead leaves off banana trees, week after week?”
Many members of the early church paid the ultimate price for following Jesus. History is filled with stories of their courageous and costly witness...
You may have heard the story of the enthusiastic young man who decided to tattoo his credo on his chest. It read: No Ragrets [sic]. He proudly...
In the west, we enjoy relative freedom to practice our faith. But for many members of the global church, following Jesus comes with a heavy price....
It was in 1946 that the Canadian and US Mission Board sent the first missionaries to the Chocó jungle of Colombia. With a missional and community...
One of the great privileges of the role I serve in is to see and hear the stories and meet some of the people around the world who are living their...
“The first one scared me,” Maricela relates, “but later, it became almost like a game. To date we have encountered 176 scorpions in the house; 176,...