By Laura McKillip Wood Jeff and Michele Royce know a little about patience. They began their life together as missionaries to Botswana with an organization called Flying Mission. In those early years, they dreamed of having children to add to their family. When fulfillment of that dream took longer than they hoped it would, they […]
By Laura McKillip Wood The story of Tom, Ryan, and Maggie* spans three continents and many years. Tom Tom’s story started when he worked as a missionary in Latin America. He noticed the churches already there often thought of themselves more as recipients of missionary work than missionaries. They relied heavily on outside support. As […]
By Laura Wood Twenty years ago Jay Bowyer and Colette Ladan never would have imagined themselves living in Poland, working with a community of believers. Although both women went to a Bible college in their native Canada, Jay worked as a district sales manager for a women’s retail chain and Colette worked as a corporate […]
By Laura McKillip Wood Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Denford Chizanga began his education in a rural area of the country but completed secondary school in Harare, the capital city. He apprenticed as an electrical engineer and was about to embark in his career when he felt a call from God to begin studying and […]
By Laura McKillip Wood Nathan Davenport began his ministry working at a Christian college, where he coordinated international mission trips, worked with students’ spiritual formation, and organized service learning for the student body. Despite his love for the students and for his work, he began to feel the Holy Spirit directing his attention to the […]
