Retired Couple Ministers Throughout Africa

Mike and Marie Meaney of Bellevue, Washington, have a unique ministry in their retirement years.

After completing 40 years in their respective careers ...

Recording Artist Sings for Justice

It was an episode of Law & Order that confronted Christian recording artist Natalie Grant with the horrors of child sex trafficking in South Asia. ...

Missionaries Survive Plane Crash

On April 15, 2008, Barry and Marybeth Mosier, Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to Tanzania for eight years, climbed aboard a plane bound for Kinsangani, ...

Between Failure and Fraud

Mark Labberton writes in Leadership journal:

In a very difficult season when finances were tight, I was driving a dilapidated car that had been donated ...

Girl Shows Courage in Haiti

Pastor Mike Breaux tells the following story of when his daughter Jodie answered God's call to go into missions work:

During her junior year of high ...

A Dying Girl Shows Honor of Serving God

Pediatrician David Cerqueira shares a story of how a dying girl showed his church the honor of serving God:

One Sunday my wife had prepared a lesson on ...

Alone in the Wind for God

Certain it is that the reason there is so much shallow living—much talk but little obedience—is that so few are prepared to be, like the pine ...

Woman Throws Engagement Ring

One fine day in 1941, Violet Bailey and her fiancé Samuel Booth were strolling through the English countryside, deeply in love and engaged to be ...

Defining Your Calling

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

—Frederick Buechner, U.S. writer and preacher ...

From Olympic Weightlifting to Witnessing

By any measure, Shane Hamman is a big man. For the 2004 summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, this super-heavy weightlifter weighed a hefty 350 pounds. He ...