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 –>
Breaking a Curse By ChanMin Chung Sunny and Salma met during orientation for first-year students at a university in the Middle East. Sunny, who is from Asia, is a “Waldensian student”, a Seventh-day Adventist studying at a secular university in the Adventist Church’s Middle East and North Africa Union. Salma is a local student who … Continue reading –>
Stubborn Wife By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Convinced that Saturday is the biblical Sabbath, business owner Zelindo JoÃo Lay informed his wife that he would leave their Sunday church in Lospalos, East Timor. “What, are you crazy?” exclaimed his wife, Dulce. “First you close our two mini-marts on Saturday, and now you want to leave … Continue reading –>
Money for Missionaries By Horacio Rizzo The plan was ambitious: Send 25 missionary couples from South America to share the gospel in the countries of the 10/40 window. I listened intently as Erton Köhler, president of the South American Division, presented the “Missionaries to the World” initiative to 80 Seventh-day Adventist leaders from across South … Continue reading –>
Japanese Pastor Finds $30,000 By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission The large water bill shocked Japanese church leaders in Tokyo. Astonished that the bill had doubled from the previous month, leaders of Amanuma Seventh-day Adventist Church contacted the water company and soon learned that an underground pipe had burst and was spewing water. The waterpipe could … Continue reading –>
