Teen Makes Christmas Music By Andrew McChesney Every year, Miharu Shimizu’s church organizes a special Christmas program in Tokyo, Japan. Every year, Miharu wished that she could participate and somehow share her joy about Christ’s birth. One fall, during her first year in university, a teacher asked her to write the lyrics for a musical. … Continue reading –>
Unforgettable Birthday By Oh Dongjun Nine-year-old Ji-yul is a popular boy at his school in rural South Korea. The teacher also likes him because he helps clean up the classroom. But Ji-yul had a problem. His friends did not want to come to his house to play after school. Ji-yul often went to their homes … Continue reading –>
God’s Perfect Timing By Eliane Hosokawa Imayuki Marcia Yuassa, one of the thousands of Brazilian immigrants working long hours at factories in central Japan, was forced to stay at home after falling ill. Suffering severe pain, she didn’t know how she could take care of her family or even survive. She cried out to God … Continue reading –>
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 –>
