Not Alone
In the months after Amina’s husband left her, she and her three children lived on scraps of food. Without an income of any kind, she was thankful for the food distribution at a nearby church that a friend told her about. One week, after standing in the crowd outside the Adventist church waiting for the monthly…
Read MoreThe Tentmaker’s Story Goes On
My first contact with Irshad (not his real name) was the Sabbath morning a fellow church member handed me a slip of paper scribbled with a name and number. “This man might be interested in spiritual things,” my friend commented. I felt compelled to make contact immediately. It only took a few minutes of my first visit in Irshad’s home to realize…
Read MoreHelplessness and Hope:
A Turkiye Adventist Visits the Epicenter The Turkiye-Syrian earthquake of Feb. 6 came to me like a dream. Not even a bad one. I felt my bed rocking. It was no different than tremors we regularly feel in central Turkiye. I fell back to sleep. In the morning, though, my stomach knotted when I…
Read MorePRAISE GOD, NO INTERNET!
Sometimes our inconveniences are God’s opportunities. Joseph slipped his computer into his backpack and sighed, “Let’s try the coffee shop.” With no internet in the apartment we’d just moved to as Global Mission Pioneers in a closed Middle Eastern country, it was the closest free internet access where we could contact our families and…
Read MorePraying Into Conviction
Richard first began doubting God while he was studying computer mathematics at a public university in North Africa. Ever since his conversion to Adventism in Zambia, he had learned to be faithful to keep the Lord’s Sabbath. So when the university exams were scheduled on the Sabbath, he simply didn’t show up to take them. …
Read MoreGod At The Intersection
I wearily read the message on my phone: I want you to meet some of my friends. My husband and I had had a busy week and had just finished Sabbath worship at the home church we attend. It was a hot day and we really wanted to get home. I replied to our friend…
Read MoreLord, Send Me
Sara is on a faith walk. She remembers her excitement when, as soon registration opened for the new school year, she filled out and delivered her application for the fall semester at Middle East University (MEU) as a freshman theology major. It was a dream come true. However, two weeks into the new school year…
Read MoreGod Is The Contractor
The task before me appeared impossible. I knew there was no way I could manage the remodeling of a facility that needed to be ready in three weeks to house a new Center of Influence in one of the largest cities of the Middle East. I was new in the area, I didn’t know the…
Read MoreHe’s Blessed Me Too
I have always felt hopeless; my life has not been easy. I’ve heard people talk about how good God is. I knew they could say so because He was helping them and making them successful and happy. However, I was blind to see His hand working for me. I felt my life would never change.…
Read MoreA TENTMAKER’S LIFE: A Sabbath-keeping soccer goalie witnesses in the Middle East
“Most of the people around me live for money, but I decided to live for God!” Asim*, the goalie of his city’s team in a closed country of MENA, testifies that he plays to honor God. It’s affected his income though. At the time he joined the team he was the only Adventist in the…
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