At 6:30 a.m., my hour-long journey begins, leading me to the northern part of the country, where trees are scarce and the horizon is painted with desert sands. This is a ride that I love to fill with music, sermons or conversations with God to tha...

It’s June 6, so I open our ministry’s website and click on our most recent donor report. There it is - the list of friends, family members, and churches who are faithful partners in our ministry. Many years ago, when we were still fairly new at “l...

A lady in our church was recently baptized. She doesn’t speak the local language, so one of our church members was translating her answers to the pastor’s questions for the congregation. She went down into the water, and as she came up, she burst ...

My middle name is “joy,” and people often describe me as “joyful.” Joy used to come naturally to me, and Nehemiah 8:10 (“…the joy of the LORD is your strength”) has been one of my life verses for as long as I can remember (it’s even inscribed on m...