The future missionaries we went to seminary with had a unique quality: they felt a calling to a people group or to a specific place. Before they left the states, they studied the language and got to know the customs of the people they were going to live among. They made strategic plans to be at…
Mother’s Day is just days away. You may have slipped a list of what you want under your husband’s coffee mug. Or written it on the bathroom mirror with your finger so he can read it as he waits for the steam to lift before he shaves. There are many moms in Asia who have…
(I’m honored to be a Gospel for Asia blogger because I get to connect world changers in the western world with world changers in Asia, who are making change happen. This month we’re talking about clean water and how meeting physical needs opens the doors to meeting spiritual needs.) Desperate for More Than Clean Water…
According to Gospel for Asia, women in Asia are the least likely to hear the gospel. Females are the most likely to be aborted, be illiterate, and be sold into slavery. Gospel for Asia believes the best way to reach these women is through women missionaries. “In Indian culture, it is not proper for a…
When my husband and I were in seminary, we had a little joke to be able to tell the missionaries from the rest of us. Missionaries were the ones who wore flip flops in January. They spent more time outside in the grass than in the library. You could go to their houses and probably…