Stories

Can God be trusted to take care of our lives? Yes, He can! With the hymn writer, Thomas Chisholm, we sing, “Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Fat...

In a squatter house along a drainage canal in Java’s cultural capital, we learned the power of prayer. Some months previously, in the same clapboar...

I cannot remember a time when I did not know about missions. Surely I was naive about what “going into all the world” meant, but I understood that ...

As the freighter eased into its berth at the Seattle harbour in July 1972, a small group of passengers could be seen gathered at the rail. Garth an...

My Dad, George Irwin, simplified life. He took complex issues and made them simple, practical. To him, missionary work was not all about strategizi...

“I’m afraid she’s too girly and fragile to be trekking around the world with a 30-pound backpack for the next nine months!” Dave’s dad exclaimed. H...

The year 1994 was significant in the life of The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA). Both Canada and the United States jointly discerned a cl...

When Jesus asked the bystanders, family members, and community to roll away the stone, what was asked seemed wrong, shocking and offensive. As a pr...

My parents came from farming backgrounds in Nova Scotia. Their parents followed Jesus, and one of my grandmothers led the missionary society at her...