As shelter-in-place orders were being handed down and we were all beginning to set up working-from-home office spaces, one of our old teammates from our time in Burkina Faso texted with
You know, missionary experience makes this shelter in place deal a lot easier, don’t you think?
Read MorePeople don’t do what they ought to do. They do what they are prepared to do. They do what they remember to do and feel capable of doing. This explains why there isn’t more prayer for missionaries in most churches.
Read MoreI could hear my village neighbor wailing—I just didn’t know why. My wife and I had just started our missionary career in West Africa, moving into a dusty tin-roofed shack that could have doubled as a solar oven. Someone explained to us in French that our neighbor's son was dying. When we saw the child, he was lying on the beaten earth floor of a grass-roofed hut, his breathing labored, pupils fixed and dilated. Despair crept into us as we realized he might not live long. I remember standing over him discussing with the local pastor in hushed tones what medical procedure might save the boy.
Read MoreFriend, I am resolved this year to pray for the God of the Mission to send forth workers and to bless the work of their hands.
Why?
Well, because prayer matters.
