Michael Love noticed the Bible laid out on the table next to the man’s computer. He and his teammate, Emmett Grant, had walked into his café hoping to meet Aaron, the shop owner. Love asked him, “Do you read the Bible?”
After completing a six-week cohort of online classes, homework and training, International Mission Board missionaries from across the Asia-Pacific Rim signed up for an in-person four-day digital engagement (DE) lab.
Over a meal, Tristan Liam, an International Mission Board missionary, asked his friend Vennico, “What helps you persevere in your Christian walk despite all the persecution and mockery you face?”
When Deaf Pathway Global (DPG) set out to test a groundbreaking new approach to Bible translation, the organization didn’t begin with a complex theological text or a long gospel narrative.
The idea was so uncomfortable at first. Emma Kate Taylor didn’t even know if it would work. “I didn’t want to be seen as weird,” she said.
Snowcapped mountains stand tall, sprinkled with forests of greenery against backdrops of blue sky.
Esther (Sook Hyung) Kim, a Southern Baptist missionary to Philippines, died July 16 after suffering a heart attack. She was 64.
“Physical therapy isn’t on most people’s radar for missions, but there’s a huge need everywhere,” said one IMB missionary. “Urban or rural, developed or not, many people simply don’t know it exists.”
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