by Tad de Bordenave You may not live where persecution takes place, but 260 million Christians do. They live in one of the 50 nations who carry out severe persecution. Numbers don’t have faces, but they do tell a story. Imagine what it means that every week over 150 churches in these nations are burned […]

by Tad de Bordenave The people, the influences, and the dire human conditions in Chad exist in far too many other places. By giving a close look at what holds a tight grip on hunger there, we will see the wider boundaries of this food crisis. And in all those places are found God’s other […]

by Tad de Bordenave The details of the persecution in North Korea are shrouded in secrecy. Enough stories have emerged, however, that allow an overview of the suffering Christians and their perpetrators. Many Christians escape to China and beyond, telling the listening world about the atrocities their brothers and sisters face. This article will give […]

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 […]