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 –>
Gift of 4,000 Euros By Viriato Ferreira A serious dilemma unexpectedly emerged on a Friday morning. The architect of our VitaSalus Wellness Center announced that we urgently needed to put up railings around several buildings. “If someone falls, you’ll be in trouble”, he warned. We knew that he was right. VitaSalus – an Ellen White-inspired … Continue reading –>
Attacked With Acid By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Banza Mwela, the pastor of a Sunday church in the Democratic Republic of Congo, nearly died when his wife and son doused him with skin-burning acid on the day of his baptism into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. But Banza, his face permanently disfigured, clung to life and … Continue reading –>
Driving Passengers to Christ By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Byungeun Oh, a taxi driver in rural South Korea, had never led anyone to Christ after years in church, and he decided to change that. Byungeun saw many repeat customers and began to build relationships. He collected passengers’. cell phone numbers and, with his wife, took … Continue reading –>
U.S. Biker Embraces Sabbath By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission The invitation startled Richard Smith as he stopped at a senior center to collect meals to deliver on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle to retirees in the U.S. state of West Virginia. “Would you like to go to the Seventh-day Adventist church with me?” asked Ruth, who also … Continue reading –>
