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The Life of an International Ministries Missionary

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

What does the life of an International Ministries (IM) missionary entail? When one thinks “US-based foreign missionary,” it may seem an unusual label. Yet it is far from an ordinary life.  It is a life filled with mobility, diversity, jet lag... and a great deal of fulfillment. Speaking as an IM ...

What is an International Ministry?

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

What is an International Ministry anyway? It could mean a lot of things, but for Assemblies of God World Missions it has a specific meaning related to how we serve our missionaries, nationals and those who need the Lord.  A military person once told me that it takes about eleven ...

Giving up my small ambitions

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

I sat and watched young people streaming to the altar during the recent World Mission’s Summit* in Cincinnati, committing to give a year of their lives to missions, and I couldn’t keep the tears from flowing down my cheeks. Funny how, after all these years of being a missionary, I ...

Christmas…for those who have not heard

Monday, December 15th, 2008

I was sitting at a traffic light the other night, admiring the Christmas decorations on the old court house in our town, and I thought of the far-reaching effects Christ’s birth and resurrection on my life–spiritually, emotionally, physically, politically, and socially.  I remembered witnessing God’s amazing impact on a life ...

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