by The Rev. Dr. Chris Royer Executive Director, AFM I vividly remember my first days on the mission field 31 years ago.  I joined hundreds of Americans and thousands of other short-termers from across the globe in Genk, Belgium for an OM conference called Love Europe. It was electrifying. Graham Kendrick, who had just written “Shine […]

by the Rev. Tad de Bordenave Within Iran we find another group of God’s Other Children. This would be minority people—ethnic groups different from the dominant majority and who suffer because of that inferior status. A corollary is that their suffering and oppression are hidden from view behind the majority people, usually deliberately so. Iran […]

We turn to another member of God’s Other Children, the hungry. In the parable of the Sheep and the Goats Jesus tells us, “I was hungry and you fed me.” These 818 million children are our brothers and sisters and they are hungry. Like the other children we look at, these children of God do not […]

by the Rev. Tad de Bordenave The photo at the top of the page shows the Judech Tower in the center of Pyongyang, North Korea. Judech is the official philosophy of the Hermit Kingdom that promotes the totalitarian regime of Kim Jong-un and the near deification of Kim and his family.This philosophy has laid the foundation […]

by the Rev. Tad de Bordenave Slavery has many disguises. Each one deepens the malevolence of its evil. Slaves are out of sight. We see no interviews with workers in garment factories, no videos of raids to brothels, no stories of children in mines. All of that is kept behind closed doors. The disguises have […]

by Tad de Bordenave Christmas is nearly here. Most of your children are looking forward to stockings, maybe a pageant, and certainly toys. This article is about those children for whom all these are missing. These children are found in the Nativity narratives but are  overlooked. I will put our attention on them so we can see […]