Called: Jesse Ishaku Amah-Kabong – age 15 is not too young
I was nine years old when I first went on a cross-cultural mission trip abroad. My family and I packed our bags and headed out of Nigeria for Mali. We were going as missionaries in a predominantly Muslim region, and I didn’t think we’d...
Read MoreCalled: Denilson Agustinho – move faster than the wind
What does passion for the gospel look like?
Imagine a fiery group of teenagers on a mission trip to an unreached people group in Cuanza Sul province in the south of Angola. They stay for a month, preaching, breaking bondages and reconciling...
Read MoreCalled: Robert and Carol Bett
Robert
The first time my pastor asked me to preach a sermon, I was so insecure that I asked him to write the sermon for me. I had been a Christian since I was a teenager; I read my Bible and believed the Holy Spirit guided me, but...
Read MoreCalled: compelled to preach in North Africa
Working in North Africa can be dangerous, and David* knows this well. Local police follow him around; they are suspicious of Christians. Some of his neighbours verbally abuse him and have even sent death threats.
“In the beginning it was ...
Read MoreCalled: Paul Akinola
On the wall of Willesden Green Baptist Church in London hangs the portrait of Charles Spurgeon, one of England’s most famous preachers. It’s not just antique décor, this church was founded by two of Spurgeon’s students and dedicated...
Read MoreCalled: Dr. Francis Kashimawo
When you set out to go to a mission field, what do you expect to find? Definitely not a backslidden ex-missionary! And yet, at the end of our seven-hour treacherous trek up a mountain to Donkin in northern Nigeria, that...
Read MoreOne nurse’s journey into missions
Bella Were found the remote hospital building in Garissa, Kenya, totally empty. Its vacant corridors had no patients for there were no doctors, no staff and no supplies to run it after a government programme had built it. But Bella, a nurse and in...
Read MoreCalled: Jean Seri
I have always had a knack for music and electronics. In 1983, I returned to Côte d’Ivoire from Guinea, where I had been studying. I joined the UEESO-CI *(Union des Eglises Evangéliques Service et Œuvre) in the commune of Adjamé i...
Read MoreCalled: Farai and Runako
I ignored my initial Macedonian call to be a missionary in Mexico. My wife and I had set our eyes on Asia when the email came to join a multi-cultural team as a church planter; it took weeks and a not-so-gentle-nudge from an elder for me to reply....
Read MoreTestimony of Tambaya Ibrahim
Pray for the Fulani – our September 2023 issue has updated information and prayer requests. There is a lot going on around the Fulani and we need to pray for them to find Jesus, and for those who know Him to be bold in their witnes...
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