by ABWE Canada | Mar 22, 2024 | Field Updates
In the West African nation of Togo, a 23-year-old man named Ganiou faced a sudden test of faith one evening when his mother became unable to breathe. Witnessing her suffering, his entire village urged him to perform voodoo rituals for her healing. Ganiou, a Christian,...
by ABWE Canada | Mar 22, 2024 | Field Updates
One church plant in Nicaragua is so dedicated to prayer that even its name reflects a longing for God’s presence. The verse referenced in its name, Iglesia Bautista Jeremias 33:3—Jeremiah 33:3 Baptist Church—reminds the growing congregation of God’s command...
by ABWE Canada | Mar 14, 2024 | Field Updates
“I have more in common with my Muslim neighbors than I have in common with most of my unbelieving American neighbors.” That was what one American Christian remarked during one of our recent ABWE training seminars teaching Christians in the U.S. to build...
by ABWE Canada | Mar 14, 2024 | Reflections
For Muslims, the Qur’an is a book providing guidance—but for Christians, the Bible has more than guidance: good news. The pluralistic spirit of our contemporary Western culture often inclines us to quickly highlight the fact that the Qur’an vs the Bible seem to...
by ABWE Canada | Feb 22, 2024 | Reflections
“Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my...
by ABWE Canada | Feb 7, 2024 | Field Updates
Around the world, missionaries face the challenge of closed doors. It can be difficult for direct evangelistic and church planting efforts to gain interest or acceptance in a community. However, medical care is often an effective means of opening some of those doors...
by ABWE Canada | Jan 30, 2024 | Field Updates
In September of 2023 on the outskirts of Kiev, about 35 people from three churches gathered for the Good Soil Evangelism & Discipleship Seminar. It was the first one held in Ukraine since the invasion began in February of 2022. Since that time, churches have...
by ABWE Canada | Jan 23, 2024 | Reflections
“Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.” (Jude 1:3 ESV) Urgency is an interesting phenomenon. It...
by ABWE Canada | Nov 30, 2023 | News & Events
As the resurrected Jesus gathered his disciples one last time before ascending to heaven, he charged them with spreading the news of his glorious plan for salvation throughout the earth. The small band of apostles was to multiply into a world-wide congregation of...
by ABWE Canada | Nov 30, 2023 | News & Events
“It’s too late. I already did it. What am I going to do now?” Regret washed over Catalina’s mind. She had seen her baby boy. But he was already gone. Her abortion, at that time illegal in Chile, was not what she had expected. No smiling wait staff,...
by ABWE Canada | Nov 30, 2023 | Field Updates
The village leaders and their families encircled the clearing between Kodzo’s huts, watching as he chipped away at the hard clay earth with his spade. He dug until his spade hit a small round pot—the fetish he had paid the witch doctor to create. As he pulled it from...
by ABWE Canada | Nov 30, 2023 | Field Updates
Brahim knew his questions were dangerous. How could he find out the truth about Jesus’ identity without being turned in to the authorities? Brahim had been watching television in his shop one day when he tuned into an Egyptian religious channel and heard a man...
