By The Rev. Canon Dr. Pete and Dr. Shirleen Wait, Pastors to AFM Cross-Cultural Workers I (Shirleen) grew up as a Baptist and was confirmed into the Anglican way of life as a college student. I was an active Baptist, especially in my teen years, and at fifteen years old, I had a life-changing experience […]
By Maria Cochrane, AFM Volunteer Prayer Partner Many years ago, Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) taught me to pray and exposed me to real-live missionaries for the first time in my life. Subsequently, when a neighbor invited me to his house to get to know a missionary couple on home assignment from China, I said sure! […]
by an AFM Cross-Cultural Worker Here’s a sentence I never expected to write: The day I got robbed was one of the best days I’ve had as a missionary! Sounds crazy, right? I was riding in a tuk-tuk (an open, two-wheeled cab pulled by a motorcycle) to an airport in southeast Asia. My suitcase was […]
by an anonymous AFM Cross-Cultural Worker Jenny (my wife’s pseudonym) went into labor after falling asleep on the couch the evening of the 29th. Contractions came every 10 minutes or so throughout the night and were quite strong by daylight. Around 6:30 we made the decision to go to the hospital. There is a 7-7 […]
by an anonymous AFM Cross-Cultural Worker We are in our sixth week of lockdown—staying at home except for a weekly trip to get food. I expect we’ll be in this situation through May, barring the creation of a treatment for COVID-19. Our country has closed its borders, and stopped schools and public gatherings (including worship […]
by Duane Miller, AFM Cross-Cultural Worker I didn’t even remember the phone call. One evening when I was loafing around the house an Arabophone brother called me from a foreign country and had some questions about our small Arabophone fellowship, Kanisa. What did we believe? I answered: we had an evangelical orientation and confessed the Apostles’ and […]