Update from Rob and Heather Blanks' ministry:

"Here is the ferry we use when we travel to the beach on family days. The exciting times are when the workers are below deck bailing oily water out of the engine compartment with a bucket."…

Praise update from Marilee Morden's Letter

"Last Sunday evening, three women gave their hearts to Christ after hearing the gospel message. Today, there are 63 people from two of our church plants and from a third church plant that will become an organized, independent church on May 24.

They have all come to join in the celebration! Three people from this third church plant and two people from my church were baptized. How wonderful to see new believers in Christ's…

Africa.  People respond differently when they think of this continent.  When Dana first announced she was willing to go on a short-term mission trip to Ghana West Africa, my first thought was darkness.  And I thought that she shouldn’t go because it would be a dark and frightening place.…

It’s so much easier to preach about serving others than it is to actually do it! Even if I spend 30 hours or so preparing a message on serving others, it doesn’t compare with the stress of standing between a wife-beater and his victim for an hour while he yells and curses, or helping her deal with the police.

This story begins in Liberia, where Peter (Polish man – and not his real name) was working for a company involved in smuggling weapons for Charles Taylor during the…

When the tsunami warning sirens went off, residents in a south Sendai neighborhood fled to the local school. Together with panicked children still in class they climbed to the rooftop. Some 600 altogether watched as the great tsunami of 311 surged ashore and crushed everything in its path, including a church several hundred feet away between themselves and the shoreline. The raging wave came to the very brink of the school roof, but rose no further.…

On March 4, 2009, we “marched forth” from San Diego to Lithuanian. Our first three years on the field have been like a speeding train heading down hill. We are amazed at all that God has allowed us to accomplish in this short time, and we can hardly wait to go back!!!…