It was near midnight when we finally boarded the plane for our night flight from Chicago to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Things were not going according to plan. Our team, which consisted of myself, George Klassen of Amazon Evangelism, and four other people, had originally set out from Vancouver to Los Angeles with the intention of continuing on to Sao...

Some people are adventurous. Not me. I enjoy a warm shower in the morning, good coffee and predictably comfortable living quarters. Besides I struggle with allergies and food sensitivities. Unknown food territory is a bit scary. For a time I was afraid God would send me to Africa as a missionary! That thought kept me from surrendering the control...

This spring, my husband and I turned 65, the official age for retirement. But we have actually been retired for several years now and, as is often the case, we have never been busier. Whatever do we do with our time, you wonder? Do we go to the beach? The theatre? Travel? Eat out? Oh yes, we do all of these things and more. But we also do many...

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....

Del Lankford really cared about missions. Whenever she had a chance to hear a missionary speak about work on a foreign field, she went to the meeting. Avidly she drank their stories in, nodding her head. "Some pray, some give, and some go," she thought. "Since I'm in my forties now, I'm in the praying and giving crowd and it makes me happy to be...

Last year, residents of Wenden, Arizona got the shock of their lives...TWICE. Wenden is just a little bump in the desert. Most of the people who call it home live in either trailers or RVs. One typically arid day, while Wendenites went about their business, rain pounded against a mountain twenty miles away. The deluge formed a flash flood that snaked...

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...