The Kenyan preacher’s words gripped me one night. “How many stars can you see? So many! And God knows the name of each one. He has a big book, too. In that book, he has the name of all who love him. Do you love the Lord Jesus? Has your name been written in that book?” At age 4 and a half, I wanted to love the Lord Jesus...

Our worship of a holy, loving God is the most critical thing we can do as humans. From the beginning of the Bible to the end, the theme of worship permeates every book. Putting God first and listening to his voice was what the Lord wanted. But when our first human parents failed, sin entered the world. Immediately afterward, the first violent action happened, and it was over the question of how God was to be worshipped was introduced to everyone. Worship Matters...

This month, the LAM Newsletter focuses on equipping people to adequately communicate the Gospel. Training and equipping pastors in another Latin American country is our focus this month. Men and women need to learn how to communicate the Gospel...

For many tribal people in Kenya, the arrival of the British in the 1890’s was a tragedy. It marked the beginning of stolen land. Foreign laws were enforced while education, medicine, and the railway arrived. My father came from southern England, arriving in Kenya in 1936...

One evening, late at night, the telephone rang. A friend called me to come because a disturbance in a neighbor’s house was gathering steam. Loud screams were keeping people awake. I took a friend, and we entered the troubled home...

At age 15, I left the dorm life for home, having just completed Grade 10. My father was the Secretary of Keswick Conference in Kenya, and that year, he welcomed about 350 people to the Eldoret Girls’ School...

As a young high school teacher in Beausejour, Manitoba, 25% of my teaching responsibilities included being the Boys’ Guidance Counselor. During our three years there, Cathie, a nurse, and I learned firsthand the effects of addictions...

I will always remember three mistakes I made during the summer after I turned 18. My summer job was to select parts for shipment...

Did Jesus’ statement ever strike you as strange? In the Lord’s prayer, there seems to be a condition in Jesus’s teaching about forgiveness. “Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.”...

Who invited Joe and Marg to travel along a dangerous mountain road? One day, a few months ago, Florentina phoned Joe. “I have two teams ready, Joe! Can you come again? I need you here soon! One group will help with outreach, and the other will help build the church. There’s much to do!”...

Stories brighten a day much like the sun’s rays in winter when frost performs its magic on the windows inside, and it’s freezing cold outside. What would life be like without stories? Well, TV would limp badly on one leg! Dictionaries would be best sellers...

We can often get so busy with urgent tasks that we don’t look further, searching the horizon.  As a grandfather who picks up a 4 ½-year-old from school, I found this fascinating: Picking up grandchildren from school can help mental health, the study concludes...