Germany, The World Outside Our Hearts

“Germany” was the first word God gave her that day in the spiral-bound notebook she uses as a prayer journal. We had just arrived in Kona HI. We hadn’t yet introduced Katie to our new friends the Campbells nor had we yet met the scores of Germans we would eventually meet on campus. In fact, Katie […]

What kind of god?

Starting at around 4am, competing loud speakers blare out their message six times per day. The noise is as distracting as it is discomforting. “What kind of god would enjoy that noise?” asked Katie as she listened to the mooing sounds. What kind of god indeed. Cluttered with shops that sell everything from vegetables, to […]

Jesus, Our Living Memorial, Our “Yad Vashem”

Just outside the visitor’s center to Yad Vashem, Israel’s world-renowned Holocaust Memorial and Museum, there are long lines of young and green IDF soldiers waiting to be escorted through the various displays and memorials. These displays are set up to try and show the growing darkness that existed, the evil that was portrayed, and the […]

Whipping Potatoes for Yeshua

Stephen stood in the hallway of the ministry center where our team is serving, his eyes welling up slightly. His wiry Middle-Eastern frame struck a sharp contrast to my 6-foot-1, 250-plus pounds. “I read what you wrote in the thank-you note,“ he said. And I could tell I’d struck a chord. He’d been blessed and […]

India

The intrepid man of God weaved in and around puddles as his faithful scooter took him across the field that night. Behind him, a group of Western missionaries followed in an off-road vehicle. It was the outskirts of Bangalore, and this caravan was headed for an isolated village nestled in the midst of the emerging […]

Timothy

Timothy’s sister sat cross-legged next to the doorway, slowly rocking forward and back. Her face was expressionless as Guru, the local pastor, explained her situation. “She is possessed. Since the mother died 13 years ago, she has gone downhill. She doesn’t have any control and doesn’t get up even to relieve herself,” he said. As I listened […]

House Visits

His face was changed. As we left the neighborhood, I saw a new look in his eyes. God had come to rest in him, and he was bursting with joy. Our short visit would have long-term impact on his life and the life of his family. Suresh’s wife loves the Lord. She is praying daily and interceding […]

Finishing Well

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” -2 Timothy 4:7 Being the first outsider to pioneer deep in the jungle among the Sawi of what was then called Irian Jaya, Don Richardson has followed the path laid out by Jesus and the Apostles in ways that […]

Bloom Where You Are Planted

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts -Acts 2:46 They still went to Temple. Though changed forever by what they had seen and experienced at Pentecost and by the Resurrection, they continued together both in the greater community of […]

The Heart of Haiti

“A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the souls of its people” -Mahatma Gandhi Philipson Georges lives in Kona at the YWAM ships base with his wife Kelsea, but he dreams of his home, Haiti. He dreams of the city of Port au Prince becoming the beacon of hope for the nation that […]