mission stories
Thankful for His Peace: Aisha’s Story
As we gather this Thanksgiving season to reflect on God’s goodness, it’s often the stories born out of hardship that remind us just how deeply His grace reaches. One of those stories is Aisha’s*—a woman whose journey has been marked by loss, heartbreak, and unexpected glimmers of hope. Aisha’s life has never…
MoreIt’s been nearly a year now since the mission has been working to establish a church here in Yendi, Northern Ghana. But despite several earnest attempts, success remained out of reach. The soil seemed hard—not just physically, but spiritually. Almost 90% of this community practices ancestral or spirit worship; traditions…
MoreThe Hidden Battles of Gospel Workers
The road to the mission field isn’t easy. Imagine traveling ten hours from where your home is just to get to where you serve: four hours by motorbike to reach the church where your lodging is, then six hours on foot through winding paths before finally arriving in the village…
MoreBuilding Dorms, Nurturing Futures
Imagine you’ve had a long day at boarding school, filled with secondary curriculum, and you’re missing home. You lie in bed to get some rest, but the rain starts leaking through the ceiling. All your belongings are constantly wet, you are kept awake by the rain in your room, bugs…
MoreSimple Conversations in Secret
This is a story from one of our gospel workers who is working secretly in a country unfriendly to the Gospel, names have been changed to protect their identity. “Wait—does this mean God Himself came to earth and died for us? And that it’s not His will for us to…
MoreWhen Grace Opened the Prison Doors
“My son was in prison 1000 miles away in a different country, and there was nothing I could do,” said Ganbat. Ganbat’s son was on a business trip to China a few weeks prior, and he got into an altercation. The people involved reported him to the police, and Ganbat’s…
MoreReceive, Live, and Give Grace
At its core, grace is undeserved love and forgiveness. Grace is God’s love in action—the purest expression of His unconditional love. It is the heartbeat of the gospel. And grace doesn’t stop with us. Grace can be received, it can be lived, and it can be shared. That is what…
More“While the doctors are prescribing medication, I am prescribing Bible verses,” Jackie said, smiling. Clinic days tend to be physically and emotionally draining, but ultimately the most rewarding. With long hours, usually outside in the heat, it’s the most time we spend with the community. We get to…
MoreThe Answer to ‘Why God?’
All of us, at one point in our lives, have experienced something so painful or confusing that we’ve cried out, “Why, God?” “Why me? Why now? Why this?” We’ve all gotten sick, lost a loved one, been heartbroken, laid off, or forced to move away, the kind of situations that…
More“As a kid, I used to feel lonely a lot, I didn’t feel like I could directly talk to people in my church about my emotional situation or problems because I thought that they were just going to judge me or even scold me?” explained Nymdulam. “Why do we do…
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