SAMS at Provincial Assembly
If you are attending the ACNA Provincial Assembly at St. Vincent's College (June 25-28), come see us and visit with SAMS Missionaries and Staff and hear more about our work among the Global Anglican Church
SAMS Missionary Richard Ranger to be Honored by Dartmouth
The honorary degree recipients at Dartmouth’s June 9 Commencement will be, clockwise from top left, Roger Federer, the Commencement speaker; Mira Murati, Thayer ’12; Paul Nakasone; Richard Ranger ’74; Roy Vagelos; Mung Chiang; Joy Buolamwini; Liz Cheney; and, center,...
Third Culture Kids Care Program for SAMS Families
Raising children in the mission field can present some challenges to missionary parents and their children. Many missionaries are not always fully aware that other missionaries and SAMS as a sending Society desires to walk alongside families with pastoral sensitivity,...
Bearing Good Fruit: The Story of Carla’s Journey
by Heidi Smith, SAMS Missionary to Chile Twenty-nine years ago, I met a young woman named Carla at the beginning of the new school term. Carla happened to be our son Joshua’s new kindergarten teacher. We were living in Villa Alemana, Chile, where my husband Russ was...
Funny Language Stories
So there I was at my furniture lady's shop describing the dimensions for the cross we wanted made for our Holy Week services, when she says: "Are you going to hang someone on this cross???" Some backstory: we have a wood shop who we go to for all our wooden furniture....
Interview: Johannes van der Bijl on his upcoming Narrative Commentary of Galatians
Johannes Vanderbijl is an ordained Anglican priest and SAMS Missionary serving along with his wife, Louise, in the Netherlands, at Christ Church, Heiloo. He has been earnestly writing over the last four years about the life of Simon Peter with two published books to...