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Faith Promise missions giving has certainly had a great impact on my family. My wife Tiff any and I were both reared in Christian homes where the principles of Faith Promise giving were taught to us at a young age. However, in the past few years, these principles were tested by trials that challenged our faith.

Give us some background information on you and your family, and how God led you to the place where you will serve? Michael received Christ when he was fourteen. Three years later he surrendered his heart to the Lord and committed himself to the missionary enterprise. Kristen was saved at the age of four. She gave her life to God and answered His call to missions as a third grader. Michael and Kristen were married in 2005. They spent a year in Mongolia while completing the fieldwork portion of their college program at BSWE. Their daughter, Maya, was born in Ulaanbaatar during the internship.

The Lord put in the heart of missionary Jeff Demarest a desire to reach the country of South Africa during the World Cup soccer tournament in 2010. The project was dubbed “True Victory” and I was privileged to be a part of it. This would be an opportunity to impact not only South Africa, but also the world. Bro. Demarest contacted Bearing Precious Seed and shared his idea to sow more than one million John and Romans Scriptures in the ten major cities where the games would be held. Bearing Precious Seed committed to print the Scriptures and have them assembled with the help of more than thir...

Can you give us some background information on you and your family, and how God led you to the place where you serve today? Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ! Since we gave our lives to God, many things have taken place. Madelon and I never thought we would find ourselves in Uganda East Africa. It seems God has given us a love for the prospects of what He can do through us. He has been molding us for His purpose for our lives, The Great African Commission. We trust God will help us faithfully serve Him in Uganda as we plan to train people (especially men) to do the work of God. We have...

As we think about the teaching of the Great Commission, a question that I often ask myself is this—why aren’t more young people surrendering to the call of full time ministry in their lives? I firmly believe that God is still in the business of calling young people to full time ministry and desires more than ever for the task to be accomplished; but where are the willing hearts of the young people who once surrendered to whatever was asked of them? Where are the numbers of young people who will give what they have to accomplish what God wants?

Kenya is a beautiful country situated on the eastern side of Africa. It is surrounded by Ethiopia, southern Sudan, Somalia, Uganda, and Tanzania. It is known for sites like Mount Kenya (second highest in Africa), the Great Rift Valley, Lake Victoria, and is also known for its numerous wildlife reserves. It has been my privilege to take two mission trips to Kenya. If I had to describe the country in one word, I believe that word would be contrast. Kenya has so many drastic contrasts. For example, there are so many beautiful variations of fl owers and trees, but they grow out of the brown, di...

The sounds of the Liberian jungle penetrated our attempts to sleep in spite of our exhaustion. Night animals calling to each other brought imaginations of what kinds of critters might be lurking on the other side of the block walls now protecting us in the missionary’s house. The distant wail of a woman’s voice carried over the other jungle sounds throughout the night. The mournful, repetitious chanting seemed to pronounce an urgent warning of some kind. These wailing sounds were coming from the prophetess in the nearby village called Mission Town, one of three nearby villages inhabited by ...

Can you give us some background information on you and your family, and how God led you to the place where you serve today? My name is Dave Barnhouse. I am 42 years old and my wife, Maggie, is 39 years old. We have five children: Jonathan, 18 yrs; Nathanael, 16 yrs; Emily, 12 yrs; Steven 2 yrs; and David, 11 months. For the past 10 years I have been pastoring Slippery Rock Baptist Church in Slippery Rock, PA. God has blessed and allowed us to be a part of many amazing things. Shortly after I became pastor, we began taking missions’ trips. We’ve gone from the Arctic Circle, to Haiti, to the...

From the beginning of time, man has chosen to exalt himself, desiring to be like “gods, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:5) The same reason that our world is in the shape it is in presently, also plagued the day of Noah. “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination was only evil continually.” (Genesis 6:5) Man continues to struggle with imagining things that were never intended by God to enter man’s hearts and minds; Man choosing self over his Creator! Reformers Unanimous strives to equip individuals to cast down every wicked imagination, lear...