Picture this: You just got yourself, your family, and 32 others OUT of an extremely risky war torn place. How do you get the courage to go back into that place? The answer is love, God compels us to put his love into action through faith. A great preacher once said that Faith is spelled R-I-S-K. This is what happened to Jed and Kim when Russia Invaded Ukraine. During the Invasion Jed led His family and 32 others out of Ukraine. Once…
High in the mountains of a remote region, at the end of a winding dirt road that often more closely resembles a goat path, lives Pastor Yang. I discovered him on one of my many trips to leprosy villages. A long time ago, Pastor Yang committed his life to reaching his neighbors for the Lord. His mission field, however, is quite small—for an understandable reason. Pastor Yang contracted leprosy in 1979, and soon found himself sentenced to live quarantined for the…
So why care about the unreached? Why should we invest our giving, our hard earned money into people groups that seemingly don’t care about Jesus? Why care when there are so many pressing needs that seem to trump the hard work of taking the gospel to people groups who are unreached, unengaged, untouched by the gospel? There are starving children, young girls being sexually trafficked, drug addiction, and orphans all over the world… shouldn’t we focus our generosity on them?…