Countless Blessings: Ecuador Mission Trips
by Jason Healy | Ahuano, Ecuador There are countless ways the Lord has blessed me these past 7 months since I first stepped on the mission field. However, in this article I want to focus on one aspect of life in missions for which I am extremely grateful. This year in Ecuador we were blessed to have 4 groups come…
Missions: What’s All the Fuss About?
By Erik Martin | General Cepeda, Mexico Have you ever heard a missionary say, “Missions is the greatest life!”? I know I have, a few times. I may even be guilty of saying it a time or two. But why, you say, I don’t get it. What’s the big fuss? What could be so great about leaving the comforts of…
Mission Life Is Hard: an Honest Reflection from Paradise
By Melissa Seilhan The Philippine motto is “It’s More Fun in the Philippines!” I changed it to “Everything is Harder in the Philippines!” after our first week here. Everything is physically harder to do here: shopping, cooking, bathing, sleeping, eating, homeschooling, driving, etc. (I’ll save the emotional and spiritual hardships in another blog.) Shopping is harder. There’s no super Wal-mart…
A Very Different Mission
By E.C. | China “But how are men to call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher? And how can men preach unless they are sent? So faith comes from what is heard, and what is…