First-Time Visitor Knows All By Eliane Hosokawa Imayuki Brazilian immigrant Sandra Sato drove straight to a Seventh-day Adventist church in Kakegawa, Japan, to thank God for her newly acquired driver’s license. She had promised God that if she got her license, the first place she would go with the car would be the church. That … Continue reading –>
Missionary Shares Faith on TV By ChanMin Chung Carlos Biaggi, an Argentine missionary in Lebanon, was flooded with messages and prayers from around the world after a powerful explosion rocked Beirut, killing about 200 people, in August 2020. One of the messages that Carlos received came from an Argentine pastor with whom he previously had … Continue reading –>
Prayer of Faith in Dallas By Ruber Leal I needed encouragement, and God gave it in a most unexpected way. For the past two years, I have come once a week to a public library in Dallas, in the U.S. state of Texas, to work on my doctoral dissertation. A homeless man who often reads … Continue reading –>
Angels Protected My Boy By Joelle Akiki Barkanian Aug. 4, 2020, was a day like none other in Beirut, Lebanon. I had just finished cleaning our home in preparation to welcome friends whom we haven’t seen for some time because of the COVID-19 pandemic. My eldest son, 7-year-old James, was so excited that he prepared … Continue reading –>
What Kind of Book Is This? By Aiki Saito A stranger handed a Bible to the 12-year-old girl as she walked home from school in Japan. But she wasn’t interested and placed the book on a shelf in her bedroom. Later, as she cleaned her room, she saw the Bible on the shelf and felt … Continue reading –>
Message Received By Youngsuk Chae Kim Hye-sun is a devout Christian in South Korea. She yearned for God and wanted to know more about His Word. So she joined a Bible study with friends but didn’t understand the discussion. She soon stopped attending. Hye-sun usually drives a car, but one day she felt like taking … Continue reading –>
Power of a Book By Kazuhiro Hiraga Nine-year-old Saki loved to read on the Japanese island of Okinawa. She especially loved to read books sold to her family by a kind stranger who had knocked on their door. Again and again she read the set of five books, Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories. Her favorite story … Continue reading –>
Good After Beirut Blast? By Kathie Lichtenwalter I barely noticed the first thud and shudder. We’d had breezes all afternoon that rattled our front door. But the second, unfamiliar thud-shudder was unmistakable. In a politically fragile world, I know the possibilities well: Fireworks? A machine-gun? A car bomb? A fighter jet flying over? While nothing … Continue reading –>
My Mother’s Heritage By Park Yeon-sook My mother turned to me as she was dying from gallbladder cancer. “You must go to church,” she said. Mother had taken me to church every Sabbath since I was a young girl, but I had stopped attending as I got busy with my shop in Hanam, a suburb … Continue reading –>
I Met Jesus at the Shop By Hong Soon-mi It didn’t seem that life could get much worse. My husband was stricken with bone-marrow cancer. Then his parents died. I had to pay for my mother-in-law’s funeral on my own and then take on responsibility for my family’s livelihood. Sometimes I didn’t even have 1000 … Continue reading –>
