Thanking God this Holy Week
Believers and seekers the world over would do well to contemplate this question during this most Holy Week: Why did Jesus suffer and die? To take away the curse of sin? To deliver us from death? To triumph over the Enemy? To expunge our sins? To overcome the world?...
Darkness and Light: Inner City Immigrant Ministry in the U.S.
by Daniel and Rebekah Behrens, SAMS Missionaries in the U.S. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” These famous words begin...
Goings on at The Lamb Institute in Honduras from Cate Waddell
by Cate Waddell, SAMS Missionary to Honduras This year at Joy Christian Academy, I am teaching English Language Arts to the 5th, 6th and 7th graders. I am with each grade about 2 hours a day. We have just started reading Miss. Daisy is Crazy in 5th grade. We...
Staying “On Mission” in an Interconnected World
Even in "ordinary time" African colors are always bright. From the Chico Market in Mukono Town. by Richard and Catherine Ranger, SAMS Missionaries to Uganda So be careful how you act; these are difficult days. Don’t be fools; be wise: make the most of every...
Honduras Part I – a travelogue of John and Susan Park
by Susan Park, SAMS Associate Missisonary Our plane leaving Pittsburgh was delayed about half and hour while they de-iced it. When we arrived in San Pedro Sula it was 90º! Talk about extremes! So much has changed since we lived there. We discovered that now to fill...
Replicating Trauma Treatment through the Gospel
It’s a dusty, jaw-rattling, two-hour drive over rough Ugandan roads to get to the Kiryandongo Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. SAMS Missionary Cathy Clevenger and her team make the drive once or twice a month to minister to groups of refugees living there, but wisely,...