We now turn to another group in God’s family—his children. As with the church in North Korea and the hungry in Chad, the criteria for these are the same. The children we will look at do not make the news, are not familiar to us, and are deemed unimportant. The standard measure of them tells […]

Steven (a pseudonym) is an AFM Cross-Cultural Worker (CCW) preparing to launch to a Muslim-majority unreached nation. We talked with him about the benefits of serving through a mission agency instead of going to the mission field independently. His thoughts are written below:  I first went to the mission field in the summer of 2013, […]

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 […]