A First Time for Everything
The Unreached People Groups Ministry is all about "firsts." To begin with, I'm often the first foreigner many Chinese villagers meet in person.
Every month, Heaven’s Family helps far more people than we could ever highlight in our bi-monthly newsletter. For that reason, this page contains additional photos and stories of some of the “least of these” among our spiritual family whom we’ve recently been blessed to serve.
The Unreached People Groups Ministry is all about "firsts." To begin with, I'm often the first foreigner many Chinese villagers meet in person.
Imagine being charged with pastoring a small church in rural Mexico that’s too poor to pay you, forcing you to work most days to feed your family rather than study God’s word to feed your flock.
Pastor and prison minister Deogratias Gashagaza is known in Rwanda as a type of Mother Teresa figure. God has used him, perhaps more than anyone else, to bring reconciliation between Hutus and Tutsis since the 1994 genocide during which at least 800,000 Tutsis (and moderate Hutus) were massacred by rampaging Hutus. Pastor Deo lost 45 members of his own family.
The ultimate sacrifice. That's what one of our beloved Burmese national missionaries paid last year in her service to the Lord.
“Apocalyptic,” was how one local, a former prime minister of Haiti, described the devastation wrought by Hurricane Matthew last October. Thousands of cobbled-together homes of the poor went up against 145 mph winds and lost—roofs were blown off cement-block homes; most other homes simply disappeared.
The Syrian conflict, now in its fifth year of grinding conflict, witnessed even more death and destruction in 2016.