- Tue, Feb 18, 1986
- Missions, Suffering and Evil
A Story of Eternal Perspective
Back in 1921, a missionary couple named David and Svea Flood went with their two-year-old son from Sweden to the heart of Africa—to what was then called the Belgian Congo.
Resources: missions
- Mon, Mar 18, 1991
- Culture and Worldview, Missions
How Can We Help Churches in the Soviet Union?
Randy Alcorn traveled to the Soviet Union in 1991.
"The book of Acts." That's what kept going through my mind. I've never seen greater spiritual hunger and works of the Holy Spirit than in the Soviet Union these lasts few weeks. I got home yesterday and my mind is still spinning.
Lenin is the false God, the antichrist of Marxism. Note the biblical ring to this Russian saying: "Lenin was, and is, and evermore shall be." Lenin promised a thousand-year reign of communism, and the death of Christianity. It's been seventy years, and the people are sick ...
- Thu, Mar 18, 1993
- Culture and Worldview, Missions, Money and Giving
Helping the Poor and Homeless
A stubble-faced, leather-skinned vagrant approaches me and asks, “Can you spare some change?” It’s nothing new, but the last few years the faces have been getting younger, the requests more frequent and my responses less certain. A popular sign reads, “Will work for food.” Sometimes it’s true. Sometimes it isn’t. (Unless I have a job to offer, how can I know?)
- Thu, Sep 12, 1996
- Missions
Dreams & Visions Move Muslims To Christ
The following is an excerpt from National & International Religion Report.
More and more Muslims are having dreams and visions of Christ, Christian ministries say. There is increasing evidence that the supernatural is playing a role in drawing Muslims to Christ.
Campus Crusade for Christ has received thousands of letters from Muslims, many of whom claim to have had a similar dream of Christ, according to the ministry’s radio broadcast office in northern Africa. In the dream, Jesus appears and tells people, “I am the way,” Campus Crusade founder and president Bill Bright said. Moved by the dreams, they contact ...
- Mon, Sep 01, 1997
- Missions
Community Banks: An Eternal Investment
If, with $50, you could start a business that would require no extra work on your part but would completely provide for a family in one of the poorest nations on earth, would you do it? Of course!
- Tue, Jun 01, 1999
- Missions
An Example From History
Fifty Christian agencies in Great Britain sought to rescue thousands of orphaned boys and girls on the streets and in work houses from the years 1870 to about 1920.
- Wed, Dec 01, 1999
- Culture and Worldview, Missions
A Russian Christmas Story: “For Always”
In 1994 two Americans answered an invitation from the Russian Department of Education to teach morals and ethics (based on biblical principles) in the public schools. They were invited to teach at prisons, businesses, the fire and police departments and a large orphanage. About 100 boys and girls who had been abandoned, abused, and left in the care of a government-run program were in the orphanage. They relate the following story in their own words.
- Fri, Feb 11, 2000
- About Randy Alcorn
A funny experience in a Chinese restaurant
I visited China in the Fall of 1999 while doing background research for Safely Home.
- Sun, Dec 16, 2001
- Missions, Prolife, Suffering and Evil
A Life Given . . .
On the Slave Coast of West Africa in 1880, a land governed by witchcraft and superstition and where human life was cheap, torture by poisoning and boiling oil was the order of the day. Twins, believed to be children of the devil, were abandoned to die, and the mothers banished. But into that suffering came a woman who had been afraid to cross the street alone, who once refused to cross a field because there was a cow in it, who was terrified of crowds and public speaking.
- Fri, Jan 18, 2002
- Missions
