A Cup of Good News

He's over 80 years old, but he's still going strong as an evangelist and a church planter. One-fourth of his life he's been supported through Gospelink! Let's hear his story!

In Psalm 118, all nations surround God's anointed, and three times he says how he will handle them, but this verb has a double meaning!

What is in your refrigerator? Is God's Word in your soul? In the country of Malawi thousands are enduring the hunger season with very limited food, and even more thousands have never read the Word of God. Gospelink supports national people to change that!

Returning from a recent trip to Nepal, Buddy tells about the amazing mountains of Nepal as well as how God is preparing demonic villages to forsake their evil traditions as He sends them a preacher.

Abu Randahl read the Quran and many Islamic commentaries. He was hungry to understand God, but the Islamic texts could not meet the hunger in his soul. Would the Bible satisfy his hunger?

Humble beginnings and many life trials have prepared Anna Ganna to be an imitator of Christ by saving many lives in Malawi.

No money and no fertility, yet a promise to have a child. There are some families in some countries where God does the impossible and brings peace despite the circumstances.

When does one become a missionary? When does one shine? Does it depend on our training, or our intellect, or our ability? No, it depends on the light, which is risen upon us. Rise and Shine.

Two decades ago God prompted them to adopt two orphan girls from Vietnam, but then the Lord of the harvest gave them a heart for a whole country.

He pursued holiness in the quiet of a cave; he sought understanding in a Buddhist monastery; but how would he ever find Wisdom and Light personified?

Over 10,000 students from Asia, mostly India, coming to study medicine in the former USSR, but they are introduced to something they never expected from a couple from their own country!

When we compare our worldly wealth with the poorer countries of the world, we must consider how we are spending these resources God has given us.

He reads a message, smuggles a message, and eventually sends a message-- all in a prison in Iran.

Joseph, Jeremiah, and David (figuratively) all fell into pits, so the picture of God bringing us out of the mire and into His grace is not new, but it was new for Nickolai.

We have all played hide-and-go-see, but God plays Seek and Save. His game board is different fore everyone, and for Olga, he used a math lesson, an article about UFOs, and a gift from America.l

No teacher, no preacher, just three days of truth in a POW camp.

This amazing small country has never been conquered and ruled by outside forces, but there are spiritual forces that rule in darkness. Are there any who bow the knee to the Lord Jesus?

His country is poor, his stature is low, but this man will be known in the Lord's kingdom because he has proclaimed the gospel far and wide.

The economy is uncertain, the politics are uncertain, and they already had four children! Yet the Lord said, "Receive the children."

A corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit, yet, when the Lord changes the tree, the good fruit that comes forth brings glory to Him, and this may be a life and it may be a marriage!

Jesus told us to preach the gospel as we are going into the world, but what happens when our car quits going? Anatoly Lalenko was an evangelist at all times!

Nowhere could be more bleak than a leprosy hospital on the remote plains of the former USSR, but the gospel of Jesus Christ has been proclaimed within its walls!

Over 200 national preachers and evangelists are sponsored through Gospelink to spread the gospel in Asia. Some of these countries are closed and cannot be mentioned online. Others are open while others face regional persecution. God is building His church, and that is a cup of good news from Asia.

The name of Jesus is good in every language, and it is a good thing to sing praise unto God. . . as the year ends and as a new year begins!

Born into darkness, taught idolatry, and steeped in bitterness, a young man need a change. . . in heart. The gospel does that!

Ukraine's second largest city has experienced rockets, bombs, and death at the hand of an invasion, but people there have also experienced a great hand of salvation!

A delinquent youth is stealing from his neighbors and even from the House of Prayer. Anatoly Lalenko comforts the mother and wants to see the young thief saved, but the Lord is already working with the young man while he sits in jail.

The beauty of Africa is comparable to its danger. The beauty makes one worship and fear God. The danger reminds us that God alone makes us to dwell in safety.

Sometimes we forget the good provision and the answered prayers our God has provided. My work on the mission field has been a result of God's power and direction.

The Holy Spirit is moving in Nepal to create an interest in a true God rather than a plethora of false gods. Gospelink hopes that the Lord of the harvest also raises an interest in Nepal in this country.

Thirty years ago this week - September 18, 1992 - I walked into a Vo-tech cooking school and met a Communist World War II veteran. I introduced him to my Savior and Lord.

You think your ministry is difficult? Move to Mozambique. However, the Lord of the harvest is raising up His people to penetrate this very broken part of the world.

No purpose, no answers, and a government that prohibits the Word of God! Foreign missionaries did not reach Ya Wa Hoo, but God's grace did!

Food is different, language is different, clothing is different, and I've never had monkeys in my garden! But the need for a Savior is the great common denominator for every human being no matter where they live!

Selling firewood was more than a hobby for Yun Meak -- it was his livelihood. Today he seeks to gather souls!

An Iranian family and a Gospelink field director meet for the first time in a former republic of the Soviet Union. But they are not alone. The God of salvation is among them.

Born and raised in Iran — even born again in Iran, but today Reza is not in Iran. He is elsewhere. But he is not idle. In fact being elsewhere enables him to reach more of his own people both abroad and back in Iran.

"Mom, Do you want to kill yourself? We are Muslims. We live in a Muslim state!" Reza's mom simply smiled, "I will pray for you." And this is Reza's testimony.

They cannot hear with their ears, but with their heart they have not only believed the truth of the gospel, but they have heard the Lord's call to take that gospel to their people!

In the 1800s missionaries took years to learn the language and bring the gospel to the west highlands of Tanzania. Today national preachers don't need language school - they just go!

Tanks, drones, higher tech and longer range--weapons and their capabilities are discussed in detail, but one weapon the media has failed to acknowledge in Ukraine -- PRAYER.

Trials and afflictions on every side, and how often we fall! Yet the grace of God and experiences of His presence have given this Indian student the strength to stand, even in time of war!

Boundaries are changing, villages are demolished, and people's lives are in crisis, but there are other changes in Ukraine-- Spiritual changes-- and the national preachers have their hand to the plow!

Kakha and Natia lived in a country without hope, but they didn't pray for a better economy or an opportunity to leave; they prayed for the privilege to serve full time in ministry!

God waded through family dysfunction, disease, and the collapse of the USSR to show Himself strong and bring together a wonderful marriage!

Mafia, collapse, darkness--descriptions of post Soviet Georgia in the 1990s. But seeds were planted by Kakha's dad and by a heavenly father that are producing life and salvation today in that very country!

For weeks the battle raged around Vasilevka, but Pastor Nikolai Zholovan believed the Lord wanted him to stay. But when the Russian army detained him as "a person of interest," Nikolai still didn't look for escape. He looked for the purpose. . . and he found it.

The "accident" wasn't an accident, but that AIU resulted in a young man coming to Christ and eventually studying at AIU, Ambassador International University, the Bible college established by Gospelink in Zambia.

Ignorant, unloved, and without purpose, Joao Foriche met Jesus because of a missionary from Zambia. That same preacher, Kenneth Mukoboto, recommended Joao to attend AIU, and today the unloved is loving, and the ignorant is mature in the knowledge and grace of God!

Nepal beckons people who want a challenge climbing mountains! Have you heard about the national preachers overcoming spiritual challenges in this same country of Nepal?

Bukeka was once a town of poverty and no hope in Uganda, but God used a national preacher named Ronnie to bring hope to hundreds of children, and the Lord has brought his salvation as well!