  (…continued)  I Peter 3:18 says, “Christ died for sins once and for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.”  To bring you to God, it says. That brings to my mind all the things that have been done over the centuries by the many different nations and peoples and […]
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   Hawaii is the most remote place on earth.  Nowhere else in the world is a piece of land so far from any other land.  About fifteen centuries ago some Polynesian islanders headed out into the open sea with their little boats, and somehow made it to these small islands 2500 miles away.  It
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   During our first year as missionaries to a newly opened primitive area of the highlands of New Guinea, we soon became aware of much tension and rivalry among the various tribes, which often resulted in open hostility and warfare. They were then usually rounded up by the local police and herded to the
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    Ed was a Lutheran missionary to the African nation of Cameroon.  His area of expertise was agriculture and he went to the mission field to teach people how to farm more effectively.  He had hoped that his love and concern for the people he worked with could bear witness to the love of Jesus Christ
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    I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say they didn’t like giving money to overseas missions, because, “How do we know the money gets there?”  Here’s how I know.    When I was a child in Sunday School, our mission offerings went to the African nation of
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Above:  Scrubwoman, 1937 pencil drawing by Bent Franklin Larsen (1882 – 1970) ——————– By Patty McGarvey posted at www.alliance.org ***********************************    “I vas called to scrub und preach. I vas a borned preacher, und as I vas poor, I learned to vork. I do good vork, so people vants me; but if they haf me, they must haf
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Above painting:  Jesus’ Interview with Nicodemus, James Tissot (1836-1902) ******************************      (…continued)  The positive influence of the missionaries is seen in a story that takes place many years after Abner Hale and the first generation of Christian missionaries had died. It is the story of a Hawaiian husband and wife who lived in an old shack back
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    (…continued) Nicodemus came to Jesus and said, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him.” That is a good point. It is one you would think everyone could have seen. If someone can
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John 3:1-17 — Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were
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Image above:Â Flathead delegation in Washington, D.C. with interpreter, 1884 (men from the same tribe, but many years after the story told here). ************************** From:Â The Clergy of America: Anecdotes, 1869, pp. 69-71. The following narrative was given by a gentleman of the United States, when on a visit to England, and was published in
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