“If the news about Jesus is so good, who needs to hear about it?” Matt asked Rashad. “Who might God have you share it with?” Rashad thought of his co-workers. He decided to invite them to study the Bible with him. But then fear crept in. He grew apprehensive, and […]
More Than Money: The Blessing in Fundraising
God is my Provider. As one who lives on the support of my financial partners, I have to regularly remind myself of this truth. He may use my supporters to meet my financial needs. But they are not my financial redeemers. All I receive comes from God, regardless of His […]
Solar-powered Gospel
They are hungry people. It’s not a hunger for food to fill their bellies. They are hungry for spiritual sustenance. They have no Bible in their language and no access to a traditional church. Living in villages embedded in the African desert, their access to television and internet is nearly […]
Called to Stay
God has a huge heart for the nations. He’s got a plan for reaching them, and it involves us, His church. He could have delivered His life-saving message to the far-reaches of the earth by more convenient means. Instead He commissioned us—the cracked vessels that we are—to take His message […]
An Impossible Vision
“I came here dying,” says Rashid, a patient at a clinic run by one of Frontiers’ ministry partners. For years, he had suffered from a chronic illness. He and his family, who are nomadic Muslims, traveled a couple hundred kilometers over an arid desert to get to the clinic. “When […]
Wired In Africa
Computer class is about to begin. Students sit in pairs around laptops, hunching over as they open a Word document to review what they learned in the previous lesson. They coach each other along as they wait for their instructor, Doug, to begin. The students’ chatter joins with the loud […]
Six Years in the Sahara
I did not go to the semi-nomadic Arabs of the Sahara because I loved them. I was not drawn to their culture. I certainly didn’t like their food. There wasn’t much of anything that I found beautiful in their land. The idea of transplanting myself into an impoverished city on […]
The Foreigner
“Foreigner!” “White person!” “Look how she is veiled!” In case I ever forget, these are the constant reminders that I am the “other”. “A foreigner, dressed like one of us!” These words are rarely ever hostile. Usually, they are served as an awkward greeting or an expression of genuine surprise. […]