July 21, 2024 marked my 10-year working anniversary with AFM. As I pause to reflect over the last decade, two things come to mind. First, I consider Psalm 77:14 which says, “You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.” Second, I think about the sentiment that our founder, The Rev. Canon Tad de Bordenave, shared with me during my first days: “God wants AFM to succeed more than we do because God’s got a much bigger heart than we do for unreached people groups.”

At our recent cross-cultural worker (CCW) conference in Eastern Europe (April 2024), I cried many tears of joy over God’s faithfulness to AFM: 50 AFM CCWs, their 45 kids, two partnering churches ministering to the kids, fervent worship, sweet fellowship, and a growing comradery between seasoned CCWs and the next generation of CCWs rising up to take their place in Jesus’ Great Commission.

Over the last decade the Almighty’s done immeasurably more than all I could have asked or imagined because He is faithful to his purposes and promises, “to purchase persons from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9). I’ve seen the Father’s faithfulness through your AFM CCWs who serve in hard places with much darkness. They are not only “standing strong in the Lord and in his might power” (Ephesians 6:10), but also “fitting their feet with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace” (Eph. 6:15). Your AFM CCWs are sharing the gospel, baptizing new believers, and discipling them Anglicanly (i.e., sacramentally and liturgically) into maturity in Christ.

In addition, I’ve seen again and again God’s faithfulness through you, AFM’s intercessors, supporters, senders, givers, and volunteers. The Father has utilized your faithfulness to grow AFM, the only Anglican missionary society in North America exclusively focused on sharing Jesus among 7,000 unreached people groups who have an aggregate population of 3.43 billion. For your faithfulness to God’s purposes, I’m indescribably grateful.

Looking forward, I’m anticipating continuous growth in our missionary society because God will continue to be faithful to his global purposes which he’s revealed in Scripture. I’m excited that AFM’s growth corresponds to the increase of the Anglican Church of North America, that the Spirit’s not only blowing new vitality into North American Anglicanism, but into global Anglican frontier missions as well.

So, thank you for journeying with me in God’s great adventure, to the ends of the earth, even if you’ve never left the USA.

Almighty Father, you desire that all people be saved and come to knowledge of the truth. Prosper all who live, preach, and teach the Gospel at home and in distant lands, especially our AFM cross-cultural workers. Protect them in all perils, support them in their hour of trial, give them your abundant grace to bear faithful witness, and endue them with burning zeal and love, that they may turn many to righteousness, through Jesus our Lord. Amen.