Surprise Package in Finland By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Six-year-old Timo Flink looked with awe at a picture of Jesus’ second coming in Arthur Maxwell’s The Bible Story. Unable to read, he stared at Jesus sitting on a cloud of angels. “I want to be up with the angels”, Timo thought. As a young adult, … Continue reading –>
Potluck Wins Hearts By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission On Sabbaths, vacationers flocked to the Seventh-day Adventist church in Russia’s popular Black Sea resort city of Gelendzhek. The visitors from Siberia, the Ural Mountains, and other far-flung Russian regions reminded the pastor, Andrey Prokopev, of something special he had learned while studying at Advanced International Institute … Continue reading –>
3 Filipino Baptisms in Cyprus – European Division By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Yolanda Malla, a Filipino domestic worker in Cyprus, saw that her friend Beatrise had tagged her in a Seventh-day Adventist sermon on Facebook. Yolanda had met Beatrise, a Filipino domestic worker in Israel, several years earlier when they both worked as domestic … Continue reading –>
A Grain of Prayer By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Yolanda Malla learned about the power of prayer from a rice field. Yolanda found work, planting and cultivating rice, in a field in her native Philippines after her husband divorced her, leaving her with two baby boys. The land owner gave her permission to work in … Continue reading –>
‘Crying Happy Tears’ By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Larissa Madeline Van Bommel, a university student from Canada, was having a bad day in Germany. First, she got lost. Wandering around for a while, she entered an empty church outside Frankfurt. She had struggled with her faith since her mother had died, and she hadn’t prayed … Continue reading –>
Heart for Mission By Joyce Joyce is a 25-year-old Global Mission pioneer who, with another female Global Mission pioneer, planted a church for young people in a city of 10 million people. Because she lives in a closed country hostile to Christianity, Adventist Mission is not publishing her full name or location. Here’s what Joyce … Continue reading –>
Fetus Refused to Die By Victor Hulbert “I’m very sorry”, the doctor told Fusae Suzuki. “Your husband is very young but, unfortunately, he will die tonight or at the most in a few days”. The news devastated the young Japanese mother. She went to the river to fetch water and, looking into the water, considered … Continue reading –>
Angel in Angola’s Airport By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Do angels live in airports? A TAAG Angolan Airlines airplane deposited me late one evening in Angola’s capital, Luanda. I had a two-hour layover before catching the next flight to the island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe to collect mission stories. At the designated time … Continue reading –>
Testimony From the Tomb By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission George Cobb is the man who died twice. Little is actually known about Cobb, and no photos of him are known to exist. But his grave has attracted attention for decades because his tombstone in a cemetery in Brunswick in the U.S. state of Maine bears … Continue reading –>
Miracle in Egypt By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission The plan seemed perfect: Transform an aging Seventh-day Adventist church in the heart of Egypt’s capital into a vibrant community center. But construction companies dismissed the idea of completely rebuilding Cairo’s Center Church. “There is no way that you can get a permit”, said a top engineer … Continue reading –>
