Messengers

God gave missionaries Mark and Helba Lemos a vision to build 100 churches in Brazil's Amazon region. // Latin America/Caribbean

In a Ukrainian village, a church planting team met a 95-year-old woman with a reputation as "the village witch."  Missionary Paul Pierquet shares how acts of compassion created an opportunity to share the love of Christ.  // Eurasia

Tom speaks with Jill and Steve McCarthy at their home in Montevideo.  Just weeks after arriving as new missionaries to Uruguay, teenage burglars used an ax to chop down the front door of the McCarthy's home.  The scary event opened an unlikely door for Jill and Steve to share Christ in their neighborhood. // Latin America/Caribbean

Assemblies of God World Missions Advancement Director Randy Hurst shares the story of Gustav Bergstrom.  Bergstrom was a pioneer missionary in Brazil, despite being rejected twice for an official missionary appointment.

After going nearly 200 feet into the ground, a contractor told Africa Oasis Project missionaries that water would never come from a newly-drilled well hole.  God had other plans.  // Africa

With political tensions rising, the U.S. Embassy urged missionary Dareth Ly and his family to evacuate Cambodia.  Heeding the warning, the Ly family raced across the country in their minivan. // Asia Pacific

Short testimonies from a city in Asia, college campus in Wisconsin, village in Poland, and cinema in North Africa.

Short testimonies about efforts to reach women and children in Estonia, train leaders in the Caribbean, disciple college students in the Netherlands, and plant a church within a Middle Eastern people group that has no church.

Short testimonies from a village in Southeast Asia, pastors in a major Eurasian city, a church planter in Northern Ireland, and a healing seminar in Croatia.

Missionary Mark Durene played basketball with college students as a way to unwind after days of intense language study in Thailand.  On the court, he met a young Buddhist curious about Jesus.  // Asia Pacific

Missionary Scott Hanson and his friend Balala took a road trip through a dangerous stretch of rural Tanzania.  When they reached their destination, a God-given vision from years earlier became a reality.  // Africa

Youth Alive is committed to mobilizing students to reach other students, and to empower churches to connect with their local schools.  Kent & Staci Hulbert, Youth Alive national coordinators, share what the next generation is seeking and simple ways to make a difference.

A pastor's widow stood at the pulpit in a crowded Burkina Faso church.  She spoke words of encouragement to other pastors fleeing violence after her own husband was killed by extremists.  Find out how believers in this African nation are uniting under mounting pressure to abandon their faith. // Africa

The Arab World spans nations across North Africa and the Middle East.  Many countries in this region ban travelers from bringing in items considered offensive to Muslim culture.  In this report, find out what happened when an airport customs official raised his voice and stopped a family that had many Bibles in their multiple pieces of luggage.  //Eurasia

The Dove family moved to Laos to share the message of Christ.  They encountered a major obstacle when they arrived.  The government prohibited Jeff, Michele, Matt and Mandy from learning the language.  After more than a year of discouragement and frustration, what seemed to be the end - proved to be an exciting beginning.  The turn of events centered on a woman who ran a tea shop in a small village. //Asia Pacific

Debbie and Charlie Chivers serve people with disabilities - giving them opportunities to experience God, be included in the church, and build meaningful relationships with caring believers.  Charlie and Debbie share about their visit to Ukraine, where they were introduced to the pain of hopelessness so many people experience as they are hidden away from society.  In this report, the Chivers recount an impromptu chance to share the message of Christ in a lockdown facility called "the cage" - home to 60 men.

Jhan and Iris Hurst were living and serving in Southeast Asia.  When their permission to reside there was unexpectedly revoked, the Hursts pursued God for a new direction.  A series of events that followed led Jhan & Iris to start a daily radio segment called Think A Minute. Think a Minute is now contextualized, translated and used by local churches globally to reach and connect with non-believers by secular radio, TV, daily newspaper columns, English-teaching outreach, small groups, discipleship, text messages, blogging, social media, and pastoral sermons.  

This is a bonus companion episode to Next Door to the President.  Mike Shields, a missionary-evangelist to South America, shares stories of God's provision and transformational power in South America.  This episode features Mike speaking during a Sunday evening worship service at Oak Creek Assembly of God.

Mike and MonaRe Shields moved from Minnesota to South America with their two teenage daughters.  They sold almost everything they owned.  In this report, hear how God returned what the Shields sold and placed them in a neighborhood that was also home to a powerful politician.

A family from Wisconsin lives and works in a country where there are very few Christians.  The authorities want to keep it that way.  In this region, there are about a dozen languages without a full Bible translation.  A man once committed to the religious belief system of his culture and community finds Christ while working on a Bible translation project.  His wife's journey of faith takes an amazing turn at a Thanksgiving dinner hosted by the family from Wisconsin in a place far from home.