God Stories

A Khmu pastor in Laos has been complaining recently that he hasn’t been able to get a good night’s sleep for months. The pastor is the only person in his area who owns a VCR. The Khmu people’s hunger for spiritual truth is so great…

Joy McCarthy of Canada, and her SIL colleague Gwen Gibson, spent several decades translating the Scripture into the Kanite and related Inoke languages of Papua New Guinea. “The dedication day turned out to be the worst day of our lives,’ they recall of the completed…

The story comes from a missionary couple working in Peru with Wycliffe Bible Translators. They were driving along one day when they were stopped by a band of rebel guerrillas who demanded they get out of the car. “This is it,” they must have thought,…

Itinerant JESUS film teams carry heavy gasoline cans, a generator, and the other paraphernalia needed to show the film? One such team went into the interior in an Asian country.  After travelling all day they arrived in the late afternoon to set up for a…

Dieke Rietkerk was travelling with some colleagues on language survey in northern Benin. They stopped at a local market and cleverly locked the ignition keys in the Toyota 4WD car – the spare set was four hours’ drive away! After poking away with pieces of…

While serving at a small field hospital in Africa, a missionary doctor travelled by bicycle through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies every two weeks. This was a journey of two days and required camping overnight at the halfway point. On one of…

There’s a little old lady who hobbles into a train station every day.  This little old lady listened to the Streams in the Desert programme, which has been broadcast into China and paid for by OMS since the 1979s.  She heard the Gospel through these…

Brian and Helen Chapaitas worked with Wycliffe in Papua New Guinea. Helen as a doctor and Brian as a computer analyst. Helen felt a call to missions but told the Lord He must have it wrong. How could she go into missions? Helen was suffering…