Can I be a Cross-Cultural Missionary with a Big Family?
Aaron and Becky, part of a missionary family in Paraguay with SIM USA, fulfill distinct roles. Rebecca dedicates her time as the English coordinator at a local school and as the personnel coordinator for the SIM team. Aaron focuses on…
The God of All Comfort and Peace
Peace grabbed my hand as the surgeons started the first abdominal incision. She was reaching out to me for comfort, a new friend from another culture, as the caesarean section began. Peace is a young woman who suffers from sickle…
Empowering Orphaned Teens in West Africa
Gay Lynn first visited West Africa when she completed her seminary degree. She was seeking medical and children's ministry opportunities, and a missionary friend invited her to visit a West African nation with them. “The doors were just blown wide…
Could I become a long-term missionary?
When my wife and I went to Nigeria as long-term missionaries, I did not know what I would be doing. I had an idea of what I wanted to do, but going with few innate skills, I wondered how I…
In Tune With God’s Mission
When Ola Sage was asked to perform Rachmaninoff’s “Prelude in C-Sharp Minor” for her eighth grade piano recital at Kent Academy in Nigeria, she was petrified, wondering aloud if she was capable of memorizing and playing such a highly complex…