Book Untouched by Fire By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission A Nigerian student lost his possessions in a red-hot blaze that melted even the iron pipes in his apartment, but he was shocked to find one item undamaged — a copy of Ellen White’s book “The Great Hope”. The student, Olajide Oluwatobi Igbinyemi, immediately read the … Continue reading –>
Novel Approach to Evangelism By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Discouraged about people slamming the door in your face? Worried that the book sent in a mass mailing will end up in the trash? University student Samuel Naumann has a unique way of sharing Seventh-day Adventist literature in Germany — and it appears to be winning … Continue reading –>
Make Friends, Not Adventists By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Igor Gospodarets ordered 800 colorful evangelistic posters reading “Bible Opens the Path to a Healthy and Happy Life” from Moscow. He plastered the advertisements around his city in a former Soviet republic where a majority of the population is not Christian. Then an elderly evangelist told … Continue reading –>
Seeing the Big Picture By Andrew McChesney, adventistmission.org A family of five came nearly every day to the Seventh-day Adventist compound in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, to ask for food. Peter Fenoy, a missionary physician running the small Munuki Seventh-day Adventist Clinic on the compound, found the family’s actions puzzling. “What is going on with … Continue reading –>
God’s Math By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Jannie Bekker, a genteel South African with wavy blond hair, was deployed to Vietnam’s capital with $2 million and the momentous task of establishing the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s first “urban center of influence” in the southeast Asian country. Bekker, however, struggled to find a suitable property in Hanoi. … Continue reading –>
Secret to Happy Home By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Home was not a happy place for Hazel Moyo. Her father drank, and her parents argued frequently in Gwanda, a small town in Zimbabwe. Hazel longed to have a happy family. At the age of 14, Hazel made a decision that triggered a chain of events … Continue reading –>
3 Warnings in Abkhazia By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Valentina Dmitrienko, intent on finding corn to bake lepyoshka flatbread for her family, hurried to the outdoor market in Abkhazia, a breakaway region in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. She didn’t have much money, and a months-long armed struggle in her hometown, Sukhumi, had caused … Continue reading –>
Teaching Russian Orphans By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission The challenge appeared enormous. Natalya Balan, the 59-year-old grandmother, wasn’t sure how to make God real to the two young brothers that she had brought home from a Russian orphanage. The boys – Daniil, 10, and his 9-year-old brother, Nikita – had suffered unspeakable abuse from their … Continue reading –>
Volleyball Evangelism By Wilson Measapogu Man Bahadur Rai and his family believed that six spirits inhabited their home in a rural village near Nepal’s border with China. Six clay pots were placed around the home for the spirits to live in. Whenever Mother cooked a meal, she placed food into each pot for the spirits … Continue reading –>
Present for Uganda’s President By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Seventh-day Adventist Church president Ted N.C. Wilson was thinking about religious literature when I arrived in a hotel lobby in Uganda to accompany him and other church leaders to a meeting with the African country’s president, Yoweri Museveni. “I have a pen for the president”, Pastor … Continue reading –>
