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« Previous EntriesChi Alpha Conference Spotlights Amazing Ministry
Monday, August 2nd, 2010Some 600 campus missionaries and their families gathered in Phoenix, Arizona, July 12-15, for the largest Chi Alpha staff training event in the history of the ministry to university campuses. The weeklong July event brought together leaders from 150 colleges and universities nationwide.
It was my first opportunity to be at such an event and I […]
Convoy of Hope meal-packing event for the ministry Feed the Starving Children
Monday, January 11th, 2010A Convoy of Hope meal-packing event for the ministry Feed the Starving Children was held Saturday (Jan. 9) in 2 sessions. Volunteers at this afternoon session packed nearly 30,000 meals in 2 hours. With the earlier group, 106,920 meals were packed this day for distribution to starving children.
The Horns in Action
This is the great team […]
First Morning in El Salvador
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Look for a cover feature on El Salvador in our very first Compassion Edition of TPE, in churches the first week of June.
With an ambitious agenda, we were delayed more than an hour in the nation’s capital, San Salvador, during the morning commute.
And here was the reason for the delay.
Missions News From the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008I thought I’d pass this along today to give you a glimpse of Africa missions.
Out on the Bateke Plateau
By Wayne & Sylvia Turner
Sunday we drove about 2 hours out to the Bateke Plateau for a service with Pastor Kakodi. It was a very enjoyable day, though we were quite tired when we got […]
Historic Pentecostal Evangel Series: 1960s
Thursday, September 25th, 2008J. W. Tucker Lays Down His Life in the Congo
As in the 1940s during World War II, the turbulent 1960s brought danger and death to our missionaries and nationals trying to carry out the Great Commission. One of these was missionary J. W. Tucker who was in his fifth term in the Congo (later Zaire, […]
Historic Pentecostal Evangel Series: 1940s
Tuesday, September 2nd, 20081940s
Our Remarkable Deliverance from Los Banos Internment Camp
Blanche Appleby and Rena Baldwin were two of nine Assemblies of God missionaries, and children who were interned in December 1941 by the Japanese military on Luzon, in the Philippine Islands. The U. S. Army rescued seven of the missionaries and their children on February 3, […]
Great Things
Friday, August 8th, 2008This is one of Christendom’s most famous quotes, and rightly so:
“Attempt great things for God, expect great things from God.”
It is great advice from a man who did both, pioneer missionary William Carey.
Burkina Faso Podcast
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Listen to my TPExtra Podcast with Managing Editor Kirk Noon. We compare notes as I wrote about Burkina Faso in a World Missions Edition a few years ago.
This photo was on the cover of our first Burkina Faso issue.
Read “A Mission Field Called Home” by Kirk Noonan. A story of God at work in Burkina […]
News From Alaska
Friday, May 30th, 2008Pastor Dennis Huenefeld sent in a few photos of one of my favorite mission fields, Alaska, some time back. Captions are his.
This picture was taken in Kaktovik two weeks ago week. Pastor Harvey Fox is on the left with TK in the middle and myself on the right. It was -15. This is the village […]
Ukraine: 22 Years Since Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Evangelical Theological Seminary in Kiev, Ukraine
The AP reported today:
Dozens of mourners gathered in the Ukrainian capital on Saturday to mark 22 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Holding candles and portraits of relatives, the mourners laid flowers at a memorial to victims of the accident.
Reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl, in what is now northern Ukraine, exploded […]
