Forgiven in Prison, Part 2 By Andrew McChesney The next Sabbath, inmate Matías greeted Dante, a 36-year-old theology student from Sagunto Adventist College, with a flurry of happy conversation at the prison in Spain. After several minutes, however, Matías abruptly changed his tone and began to fidget nervously. He spoke about his childhood and adult … Continue reading –>
Forgiven in Prison, Part 1 By Andrew McChesney The volunteers chose slips of paper with the names of inmates who had signed up for Bible studies at a prison in Spain. But nobody took one slip of paper. “Doesn’t anyone want to meet with this man?” asked Dante Marvin Herrmann, a 36-year-old theology student at … Continue reading –>
Finding Freedom in Rwanda By Lucette N’Diay Mitrac I don’t know why I volunteered to preach at Total Member Involvement evangelistic meetings in Rwanda in May 2016. Other than me, only young people volunteered to preach when coordinator Duane McKey invited our Seventh-day Adventist church in Paris to participate. I was weak after a long … Continue reading –>
By Merry Grace Baloria I never thought that a single night would be the darkest in my life. It was during that darkest night that God showed me His marvelous light. Heavy rain awakened me at 12:45 a.m. It was completely dark in the one-bedroom house that I shared with a missionary partner in Eastern … Continue reading –>
Instructed by God in Brazil By Selomita Hamzaoui An aunt gave me a booklet filled with Bible verses on a Saturday afternoon. “Just open the booklet, and God will talk to you through a verse,” she said. I hadn’t thought about God in more than 20 years. Although I was raised in a Christian home … Continue reading –>
Australian Risks All in Africa By Vania Chew Ettienne McClintock, 51, wasn’t taking anything for granted in Ethiopia. The 3ABN Australia radio host was preaching in Shisho, a rural town located 20 miles (35 kilometers) from Awassa, the second-biggest city in Ethiopia, as part of 2019 Total Member Involvement meetings organized by the East-Central Africa … Continue reading –>
Helping a Distressed Priest By Gabriel Golea The Romanian priest came to me with a problem. “Can you convince the commission members that I have a good job and a good level of education so I can start my doctoral studies?” he said. The priest had enrolled to study theology at the University of Strasbourg … Continue reading –>
Adventist in the Next Life By Andrew McChesney The elderly woman listened attentively in Sabbath School in southeast Asia. Her Sabbath School lesson book was filled in meticulously. She looked up every verse in her Bible. Many verses were underlined in the Bible. She placed money in the Sabbath School mission offering. The woman, known … Continue reading –>
Paying With Prayer By Andrew McChesney Choomba Simillah was being expelled from the University of Zambia. He owed 9,000 Zambian kwacha (about U.S.$900), and he had no idea where to obtain the money. But Choomba wasn’t going to give up. He was studying for a bachelor’s degree at the public university while teaching at Rusangu … 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 –>
