By Andrew McChesney The 26-year-old missionary gazed at the group of 50 Zimbabwean police officers. The uniformed men and women had just participated in a colorful parade in downtown Bulawayo, and they were waiting for him to speak. Emmanuel Msimanga – a Global Mission pioneer assigned to the central business district of Zimbabwe’s second-largest city … Continue reading –>
By Andrew McChesney Seventh-day Adventists took a boat cruise to share health tips in central Russia – and the boat’s captain quit smoking. Children wrote letters about the Ten Commandments to give away on Russian streets. Evangelistic meetings gave power tools to people whose homes were damaged in conflict-torn eastern Ukraine. These are among the … Continue reading –>
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 –>
