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News, stories of lives changed, devotionals, videos, missional thought. Browse to be encouraged, explore a call, or go deeper into an area of the world where missionaries are faithfully serving.
News, stories of lives changed, devotionals, videos, missional thought. Browse to be encouraged, explore a call, or go deeper into an area of the world where missionaries are faithfully serving.

Too Old For Instagram: How to Make a Difference With Missions Later in Life
Hear from two couples who started their second careers as missionaries later in life—after careers, kids, and moving into retirement.

Refugees: What You Don’t Hear on the News Interview with Philip and Joy Kirkland (AUDIO)
Kay Burklin and Carolyn Morris interview MTW missionaries, Philip and Joy Kirkland, on a new podcast about ministering among refugees.

Pandemic, Missions, and Loneliness: Q&A with MTW’s Member Care Network
As we’ve spoken with MTW missionaries over this last year, one theme has come up over and over again—that of loneliness and anxiety.

Asnaketch: Transformed in Ethiopia (VIDEO)
Asnaketch’s life was falling apart. She was sick from cancer and her husband turned against her. But God had a story of redemption to tell.

Lost in Tokyo as a New Missionary
I was simply making the three-minute drive from a parking garage in Ginza to choir practice to pick up equipment. How did I get so lost?

A Providential Picnic: Coffee, Conversation, and Considering Adam
What started with a God-ordained conversation one evening became a small group of men studying the origin of sin and our need for a savior.

The Sakalava Church Matured Before My Eyes
Not long ago the Sakalava were steeped in ancestor worship and spirit possession. Now believers are leading a church grounded in God’s Word.

A Firm Foundation
This year of pandemic has upended basic life struggles and taken many of us into areas that feel more fearful, more anxiety-inducing.

What Do Missions and Childbirth Have in Common?
What is true on a physical level about childbirth, is also true on a spiritual level about the labor of love called missions.

2020 Prepared Us All For Missions
What we have all been experiencing these past 10 months is very similar to the stress that first-year missionaries experience.