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Many people who are considering short-term missions for the first time do so with no small degree of trepidation. After all, it’s never easy to leave your comfortable, predictable life and step into a strange, new place where life is anything but predictable. People will talk differently there. They’ll think differently. They’ll drive differently....
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Give, Pray...and Go? Del Lankford really cared about missions. Whenever she had a chance...
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RV Servants on Wheels Last year, residents of Wenden, Arizona got the shock of their...
High school sweethearts Carol and Richard McElroy always planned to spend their lives serving the Lord as missionaries. Yet after an initial posting in Costa Rica, it seemed that it was not to be. Carol accepted Christ at a young age and in her teens felt the Lord calling her to life as a missionary. Richard grew up in a Christian home and accepted...
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When Ken and Eileen Priebe agreed to host a Canadian JESUS film team in Cameroon in 1989, little did they realize how that decision would affect their lives. Over the previous ten years, the Priebes had served as Baptist missionaries in Western Cameroon, preaching and teaching at a number of small churches. But when the JESUS film team came,...
No Comments » "And the King shall answer and say unto them, 'Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me'" (Matthew 25:40). Jeanne Jeffery stared at that verse in her Bible and then read it again. "Why, I've read and heard those words by the Lord Jesus Christ many times!" she thought. "Why...
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Verena Hoffman of Rose Bay, Nova Scotia keeps a lot of "stuff" in her car because she doesn't always know where the Holy Spirit will lead. And for the past fifteen years, the Spirit kept her pretty busy. Since her immigration to Canada from Switzerland in 1985 and retirement from teaching in 1992, Hoffman has been the caretaker of a ranch in northern...
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Some ladies in their eighties like to keep their age a secret. Sprightly Bernice Cresswell of Greenville, SC was one who didn't. In fact, every Mother's Day in recent years she went forward at her church, Oak Crest Baptist, to receive the orchid for oldest mother in the church. Bernice was also one of those stalwart Christians who hasn't thrown...
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Everything hit Ruth Clevenger at once when she was 74. She lost both her husband and son in that year. Seven months after her son died, she suffered a stroke. After recovering from the stroke, she fell and hurt her hip. One day she tuned in to a local Christian television program where counselors took prayer requests over the telephone. Ruth...
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My cousin was a lieutenant colonel with the US Air Force and he retired when he was 52. He took a job teaching science in a junior high school. Most of us have to wait until we're 62 or 65 until we retire. What will we do then? Will we just sit and vegetate? Or might we look forward to something more exciting? Well, I'm over sixty now and I don't...
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