By Andrew McChesney Mordecai Msimanga turned to God and became a missionary to his fellow Zimbabweans after accidentally hearing a sermon from the Song of Solomon. As a young man, Mordecai was baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Rhodesia in 1963 and moved to the country’s second-largest city, Bulawayo, to find work. He stopped … Continue reading –>
By Andrew McChesney Tracey Lee, a mother of four living near Fort Worth, Texas, wondered what gift she could give to God. She didn’t have much money, and she has struggled for years with attention-deficit disorder. But between homeschooling and five pets, she realized that she had one thing that she could dedicate to the … Continue reading –>
By Eugene Fransch I was an average student in my theology classes at Solusi College in pre-independent Zimbabwe. My hardest subject was Greek, and the highest grade that I ever got was a “C”. When I wrote my final Greek exam, I knew that I had failed. “Doc, I failed again”, I said as I … Continue reading –>
By Andrew McChesney One of the most perplexing questions that people ask is how to choose the right spouse. For Mario Brito, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Inter-European Division, it was simple: He asked God two seemingly impossible things. Mario remembered Maria while praying for a mission-minded wife as a third-year theology student at … Continue reading –>
By Gorata Obonetse One day, a Seventh-day Adventist literature evangelist showed up at our door in Botswana. My mother was interested and bought three books by Ellen G. White: “Messages to Young People”, “The Desire of Ages”, and a King James Bible with “The Great Controversy.” Soon she started attending an Adventist church and was … Continue reading –>
By Andrew McChesney Janice Clark never planned to adopt a former student’s baby, but then the telephone rang on a cold March day. “I’m having a baby that I can’t keep, and I’m wondering if you will have him”, Annette said. “What do you mean by ‘have him’?” asked Janice, a 47-year-old physical education teacher … Continue reading –>
By Miguel Manuel Mafugula I was born into a Sunday-keeping family in Milange, a town located just 2 miles (3 kilometers) from Mozambique’s border with Malawi. My introduction to the Seventh-day Adventist Church came through a girl named Adelina. She was 16 and in the seventh grade, and she asked me for help with her … Continue reading –>
By Bob Stuart The doctor looked me straight in the eye. “You have inoperable prostate cancer”, he said. “You have 18 months to live.” Back at home, my family and I sat down to compile a bucket list of things to accomplish in my last 18 months. One of my four sons said he wanted … Continue reading –>
By Daniel Gatan My wife has stopped attending the Seventh-day Adventist Church, but I have not given up hope. Here’s why. During repressive Communist times, a woman in my home country, Romania, learned about the Adventist Church and began to attend Sabbath services regularly. This infuriated her husband. “Where are you going at the same … Continue reading –>
By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Construction company chief Vladimir Vladovskyy knew it would take a miracle to build a Seventh-day Adventist church in the northern Russian seaport of Arkhangelsk. He had no blueprint for the project. He had only a few summer months to build the church. And a senior city administrator, without giving a … Continue reading –>
