Serving with Peace and Joy
My recent visit with our partner Pastor Samuel* from Myanmar (Burma) reminded me the secret of serving God fruitfully, with peace and joy. Before sharing the key, let me tell you a little about Pastor Samuel. With few resources, Samuel and his wife Martha*...
See a Need and Meet it
“If you can’t help 100 people, then just feed one.” ~ Mother Teresa In January I spent time with two indigenous missionaries in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital of 19 million people and the fastest-growing, most densely populated city in the world....
Poverty, Opportunity, and You
Six years ago, I visited South Asia for the first time as a summer intern with Harvest Bridge. The internship involved working with local healthcare professionals and Harvest Bridge’s national partners to conduct free medical clinics for underserved populations...
Through Fresh Eyes
Dear Friends, One of our recent reports from Bangladesh gives an account of a Hindu village that conducted a ceremony in honor of a goddess. During the ceremony the villagers fashioned idols out of mud, which they dropped into nearby streams at the end of...
People, not Populations
As I pore through six month reports from our South Asian missionaries, A.W. Tozer’s wisdom comes to mind: “God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.” Reading through stories of persecution, miracles,...
The Heart of Missions
Serve the LORD with gladness! ~ Psalm 100:2 My visit to Myanmar (Burma) last month started off on the wrong foot. From a human perspective, we were focused and productive, but I lost sight of the heart of what we do. Thankfully, on my visit to a children’s home...
Hope From Within
Last month, I was worshipping with pastors and missionaries in Sri Lanka in an area that had been devastated by the country’s 30-year civil war, a war in which conservative estimates report at least 150,000 people died, the majority being civilians. The bullets...
On the banks of the Irrawaddy: Lydia’s Story
On the banks of the Irrawaddy, a 24-year old woman looks out on the river she’s grown up on. This is the river she worked on with her parents, carrying goods across the water by boat, after stopping her schooling at age seven with only basic reading and writing...