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God’s Grace was Sufficient: Lucy Thurston, Pioneer Missionary to Hawaii, Book 1 (by Mary Thurston Hedstrom) Do you want to read a missionary biography or memoir, but don’t know where to start? I recommend you start with God’s Grace was Sufficient. This story is an account of Lucy and Asa Thurston’s adventures as missionaries to… Read more: God’s Grace was Sufficient-A Book Review

“I hope the police don’t stop us,” I muttered to my husband as we rattled along in our old Land Cruiser on a deserted road in Uganda. Just then, a policeman stepped out of the shadow of a large tree at the top of a hill, his arm extended in the “stop” position. When dealing… Read more: God’s Got Wheels on a Thousand Hills

I’m always on the lookout for missionary memoir because it’s in the story of our lives that we can see God at work so powerfully. Avis Goodhart’s life story, detailed in her book Out of the Dust, does exactly that. Her testimony shows how God can use anyone to be His hands and feet and… Read more: Avis Goodhart’s Out of the Dust: A Review

One of the hardest things about going through conflict (aka drama!) is feeling alone and misunderstood. If your conflict is with someone that used to be close to you, the feeling of aloneness may be even greater, but the Bible promises many things that will encourage you. Trusting your feelings is dangerous because emotions fluctuate… Read more: 7 Bible Promises to Believe When Dealing with Drama

The past months have brought a firestorm of ideas, two of which I greatly desire to see come to fruition for the Aringa people. Though similar, they target different audiences. The first is for the women of Aringa. I want every woman to have access to Bible teachings in the Aringa language. These teachings will… Read more: Open Ears, Open Hearts

I’ve long admired Jim and Elizabeth Elliot’s work as missionaries in Ecuador. I thought I knew their story, then stumbled upon other books Elizabeth had written while listening to Amazon’s Audible programs. In one book, Elizabeth recounts her early days as a missionary before she and Jim married and in another she reads aloud from… Read more: Why Write a Book?