When Your Heart Can’t Get Any Bigger

It was a three-week vacation that I would not have traded for anything else: the chance to teach seventy Muslim high school students in a remote desert town. When I took the three-week job, I was told I would have 36 students and teach just 2.5 hours a day. That […]

Cost of Discipleship

“Sometimes we wonder if it’s worth it,” said Roger quietly as he fought off tears. Roger knows that Jesus Christ is worth following—even in light of the cost. Every day, hundreds of Frontiers workers testify to Jesus’ worth as they persevere in the countries God has called them to. For […]

A Traitorous Decision

Word of Gulzhan’s traitorous decision spread quickly through the village. She’d been studying the Word of God with a Frontiers field worker when Jesus met her in a dream. Since that day, Gulzhan had devoted herself to following Him. But she faced stiff resistance in her village, where Islam is […]

Lighting the Candle of Hope

“I need help lighting the candle of hope in my spirit,” I had written in a prayer letter. “My heart is desperate for a revival of hope.” I confessed to my supporters back home that I was fighting discouragement. My husband and I had been planting seeds of the Word […]

Oasis of Thanksgiving

It may have been one of the worst weeks of my life, the week I spent in a desert oasis village. I had been in my host country for less than a year, working hard at learning the language. I was determined to master the local dialect of Arabic. I […]

God’s Word and Making Disciples Among Muslims

“I used to argue with Muslims and insist on showing them why they’re wrong,” said Zakaria, my local Christian-background friend and ministry partner. “But now I see there’s a better way.” Zakaria and I had just finished reading through Deuteronomy 6, in which Moses instructs the Israelites to obey, cherish, […]

Paris: How Might We Respond

As a young man, I had the privilege of studying for a year in a college town a few hours away from Paris. I looked forward to the weekends when I could take the train to the stunning capital and marvel at the complex but graceful design of the Eiffel […]

From Slave to Friend

Nate and Amber, Frontiers workers in South Asia, had been praying for months, asking God to introduce them to spiritually hungry men and women. Amber had met plenty of women who enjoyed talking about religion. But she didn’t want to discuss religion. She longed to spend time with women who […]