Barnabas Teams In-between villages

Connecting churches & CCWs

by Matt Foster, Trustee on the AFM Board of Directors One week after graduating from college, I went overseas to work among an unreached people group (UPG) in the foothills of the Himalayas. I left for a two-year term and was allowed to extend that term for another year. In those three years, my small […]

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And I didn’t start until I was 52!

by an AFM cross-cultural worker (Yes, that was 25 years ago so you can guess my age.) Just 25 years ago, I was applying to become an Anglican Frontier Missions (AFM) missionary. Two months prior, our church hosted a one-day missions conference organized by a couple just returning from the 1997 New Wineskins Conference. Karen and […]

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Refugees’ Journey to Grace

by The Rev. Canon Tad de Bordenave, Founder and 1st Executive Director of AFM The sudden collapse in Afghanistan has forced many to flee their homeland with little more than the clothes on their backs.  Those currently being evacuated from Afghanistan join millions of refugees from other Muslim lands, including Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan, who […]

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Europe: A Pressing New Frontier

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 […]

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God’s Other Children: Minority Peoples in Iran

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 […]