Mission Fields Online Journal

Buenos Dios from Honduras

¨Let us not be weary in doing good´for in proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.¨Gal 6:9

Lou quoted that verse yesterday as he talked about the beginnings of Living WaterInternational.  Three yearsinto this idea, they were not succeeding.  And while in Africa, they failed to find water [...]

OH LORD, IT’S MONDAY!

But thank God!  He has made us his captives and continues to lead us along in Christ’s triumphal procession.  Now he uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ everywhere, like a sweet perfume.  Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God.  But this [...]

Q#1. What does it mean when someone says, “This world has nothing for me”?

“This world has nothing for me” is a popular saying among some Christians today. It became popular in the praise song “Rescue” by New Song. In between the Chorus and the verse is the line, “I will follow you, [...]

I live in the Bible belt, where there are churches on every corner and five in between them.  Recently, I took a trip outside of the Bible belt and was really bothered.  There were only two differences I noticed between the two.  The first was fairly obvious; the number of churches was [...]

Many of us in the church don’t feel the call to go spend years overseas. The thought of leaving our family for that amount of time scares us. Opportunities that allow a week or even a couple a weeks are great, but even they are still really expensive. All this talk about how we are [...]

Growing up in church, a missionary was someone who gave their life of comfort to spend their time helping others. They were who we cheered on and supported. In some circles Annie Armstrong and Lottie Moon were the only missionaries we knew. Missionaries were (and still are) heroes of the church. They [...]