We are very excited to be developing women leaders while partnering with AFMIN! For quit some time AFMIN has realized that the need for leaders in Africa remains not only for the development of church leaders but also for the development of trained influential leaders from every level of society. Leaders, whom have the potential …
Thank you Reidsville Alliance Church! We had a very encouraging visit with you, and we found your church to be a surprising breath of fresh air. Everyone was very welcoming and we instantly felt a part of your family. I never know what to expect when we randomly visit a church, but it inevitably turns …
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Ndungo heard the shouts from his work site in Western Zambia, “The man says he’s looking for people God has called to be Bible translators!” He stopped laying cinder block bricks and went to see what the commotion was all about. Lazarous Kapasa, the National Director for The Word for the World in Zambia, had …
Having recently finished our inaugural, two-month trip into Africa, we have had some time to gather our thoughts, look at all that happened, and prayerfully consider all that God is doing. People back home have asked us if we still feel that giving up our established careers and ministry to pursue these first steps into …
For the past few months, Lydia and I have been really struggling with the concept of living by faith—and finances are only the tip of the iceberg with this topic. The varied intersections of life and faith seem to be more like a four-interstate exchange than a four-way stop (of which I’ve seen zero in …
Before leaving for Zambia, I wanted to keep myself away from making strong expectations. Sure, there is planning, and packing, and evaluation that goes into a 3-month trip away from home, but I wanted to be surprised by the things I experienced while in Africa…and even by day three, there have been many surprises! Of …
Sitting in an international airport for ten hours helps bring perspective to this journey Lydia and I are undertaking. I’ve been people watching, first in Montreal and now in Munich, as individuals engage each other in a variety of languages. Here, in a world where people forge communication through gestures, expressions, and snippets of shared …
Lydia and I gave our first presentations of the vision and heart of what God is calling us to do this past Sunday at HarvestDowntown. Thank you to everyone who agreed to talk with us and for showing interest in Bible Translation and Women’s Empowerment. We greatly look forward to working with you moving forward!
In John 17, Jesus prays the following: 13 But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. 14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as …