Retirement or Ministry? A busy retirement brings about baptisms behind bars. Have you ever heard a newly-retired person declare, “I’m busier now than I was before I retired”? I have, and after two years of retirement, I can tell you that my wife and I certainly feel busier! In 2008, several years before retirement, my ministry partner and I entered …
The Blackout A Sunday-keeping pastor prays for an electrical blackout to stop the Adventist meetings. While resting in my home one evening, I heard what sounded like preaching coming from the other side of the village. Stepping outside, I called to my neighbor, “Why do I hear preaching? What religion is that?” “The Seventh-day Adventists brought a preacher here,” he …
Small Beginnings, Great Rewards Over 79% of homes in the United Kingdom have been offered a free Great Controversy! More than 20 years ago a 16-year-old boy set out with a far-reaching plan: to offer a free copy of The Great Controversy to everyone in the United Kingdom. Jonathan printed up leaflets offering the book, and he and his friends …
In November 2016, we held an evangelistic crusade and afterwards a baptism. The new members who got baptized at that time have experienced great changes in their homes since accepting Christ Jesus. Sister Justine Bozo’s only child suffered from epilepsy, but has been healed since they started coming to church. She herself could not even sleep at night because of nightmares, but she …
Here in the Cotabato area in the Philippines, six souls received baptism on December 24, 2016, including former Mormons and Roman Catholics. We had originally planned on baptizing five, but after the baptism another woman requested to be baptized, also. I suggested that maybe we could perform her baptism next time, but she looked so sad about it that we …
Baptism Behind Bars A prison ministry welcomes a precious soul into fellowship with God through baptism. Last summer we conducted a prison baptism, welcoming one more precious soul into the fellowship of God. This baptism brought our ministry’s total to 17. Praise God! I would love to announce that we baptized 40, 20 or even five inmates last summer, but …
Witness for Truth A Tanzanian girl goes to school to learn a trade, but finds a treasure of far greater value. “If you go to that church even once, I will put you on the bus and school will be over for you.” Grandfather snarled. “Nobody will become a Seventh-day Adventist in my house!” Albina lowered her head. “I am …
It is always nice to have an advocate—someone who will speak up on your behalf. In some situations, though, it is not just nice to have an intercessor; it is essential. I am so thankful that this is exactly what Jesus is for us today. We find beautiful promises throughout Scripture: “We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus …
We just went through Hurricane Matthew’s impact in the portion of the city where our family lives and we are very thankful to Jesus that there were only minor effects produced by the heavy rainfall and some wind throughout the night as the hurricane passed over into the southwestern part of Hispaniola and northward into Haiti. I’ve not been able …
Saved by a Smile Philippines Next to our church in Little Baguio here on Mindanao Island in the Philippines lives a young family—a man and wife and their children. We noticed that every time we would visit the church, the wife would turn away from us and shut the door of their home tight. We never quite knew why. …
