Well, I’m back. Last week was amazing and refreshing and beautiful and….amazing. Last week I spent my days amongst some of my best friends, loving and serving others in a part of the world often overlooked by the rest. Last week I had fun, I played games, I told stories, I laughed and I cried. […]
Fear and Trembling
I was recently reading a biography of George Muller, and I came across something I would like to share. After he preached his first sermon at a little country church while he was in seminary, he was struck by how much greater an impact a simple sermon had over that of a complex theological masterpiece. […]
George Muller, Man of Great Faith
George Müller is remembered today for his great faith and mountain-moving prayers. He didn’t begin life as the saint he is known as today, though. Quite the opposite, in fact. Up until partway through his university years, he was a thief, a gambler, and a liar. In fact, the only reason he had agreed to […]
The Hickey Family
Today’s post is going to be a tad bit different than any of the other’s I’ve done on here. I want to tell you all about an amazing family that has been a friend to me for several years now. They’ve loved and encouraged me in my faith and in my everyday life for a […]
“I Only Have One Son”
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The Haiti Update
Ahhh, I’m back. Last week I went on my second trip to Haiti, the first being last summer. This one was different than the last in many ways. This one was a medical mission. I was one of only four youth on the trip. I got to travel to a few new villages I hadn’t […]
Oh that God would Make Us Dangerous!
I was writing a research essay on the missionary Jim Elliot for school, and I came across a quote that really struck me. It goes as follows: “We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with. But we are “harmless,” and therefore unharmed. […]
William Carey
William Carey became a baptist christian because of his friend in Piddington, England. Ever since Dr. Booth gave a speech about his missionary travels in India, William knew he was called to go to India. After many travels around England to sell his book Enquiry ( which is the short title people called it by because of […]
Gladys Aylward; also known as Ai-we-deh
Gladys thought she had finally accomplished her dream of going to China as a missionary. She was on a train heading towards Tietsin, China. Gladys was forced to get off the train and walk back to the nearest station in Chita, Russia because of a local war. Once Gladys walked back to the nearest station […]
Jim Elliot
Jim Elliot was a missionary to the Quichua Indians and a martyr to the Auca Indians. He Lived in Shandia, Ecuador and was part of a missionary outreach to the Quichua people. Jim and his team endured many difficult and terrifying challenges. After nearly one year of living in the Shandia mission station, everything was […]