Frontier Missions Journal

Ding Dong!  I went downstairs and saw the younger neighborhood kids I had befriended. I was shocked. How did these little detectives know where I lived? I didn’t tell them.  “Hi,” I said. “Hey. We saw your shoes and your dog.”                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by the Aleman family, AFM missionaries serving on the Isan Thai Project...

One quiet evening in Reva’s home, the children suddenly awoke to strange noises echoing through the room, breaking the silence.                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Bala Patel, a former AFM missionary who served on the Himadri Project in the Himalayas.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s story!

“Loneliness belongs only to Allah,” Hakan wrote. “It’s an old proverb in our culture. Loneliness is exclusive or unique to Allah.” I stared at the words as if I had just stumbled upon the devil’s smoking gun.                                                                 ---------------- Today’s stories are told by Jacob Bridger, AFM career missionary on the Turkish Project in Turkey.  Subscribe...

“Go and talk to Him.” Lord, I don’t know who He is. What do you say to a total stranger who’s in the hospital? “Oh, hi. I’m your neighbor from across the hallway. And I’m talkative, and I like to talk to new people,” I said to the teenage boy.                                                                ---------------- Today’s stories are told by Claudette Aleman, AFM career missionary on the I...

The next thing we knew, we had twenty-eight players. “What are we going to do now? We have to either rent a bigger field or we have to rent two fields.” When Rene Aleman shared with God that he wanted to reach people through sports, God more than delivered.                                                                ---------------- Today’s stories are told by René Aleman, AFM career missionary...

The phone rings. The man on the other side is crying, desperate for help and wants to meet us. He is in deep trouble.                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by John Smith, a missionary serving on the Turkish Project.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s story!

“Oh, you’ve given me a special book. It’s about Jesus,” the police officer said. “Yes,” Tafara replied. “Well, I don’t believe in Jesus. I believe in ancestors,” the officer followed up.                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Tafara Chogugudza, a young man serving with Abundant Life, a sister organization to AFM South Africa.  Subsc...

Listen to today's radio flashback and discover what life was like in Albania about 30 years ago, when AFM missionaries first entered the country.                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Anna Kvanli, a career missionary on the Shqiptaret project in Albania about 30 years ago.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listen...

Poverty, alcoholism and childhood neglect loomed large over Priscilla’s early life. She and her loved ones walked a path marked by brokenness and despair.  But an unwavering power of prayer and unshakeable faith in God transformed not just her life, but the lives of her entire family.                                                                 ---------------- Today’s story is told by Priscill...

“I must keep listening to the Godpod,” the witch doctor said. “If I stop . . . the spirits will oppress me again.”                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Alisha Taylor of the Palawano Project in the Philippines.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s story!

“Talal is a man of God. We are the kafir, the apostates, not him,” Usman said, his words an arrow to the conscience.                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Gabriella Lincoln of the Sahara Project in West Africa.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s story!

With their car bottomed out on a sand bank after a deluge on Sunday, it was now Tuesday night. The Havenga family was certain they would be rescued on Wednesday. As they readied themselves to sleep in their car, it started to pour. Again!                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Jo-anne Havenga and comes from our AFM South Africa offi...

We drove into a torrential rainstorm, trying to maintain momentum to avoid getting stuck in the muddy sand. Hitting a deep pool of water, our car slipped onto an embankment. Now we were stuck!  “We may as well make ourselves comfortable, spend the night in the car and investigate in the morning,” we decided.                                                                ---------------- Today’s st...

Our conversation remained void of anything religious throughout our entire visit, leaving me a little confused. “I thought we were coming here to witness and minister.”                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Elisha Joy of the Sinim Project in Southeast Asia.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s story!

Thorns and leeches made the journey more painful. Knees and ankles begged for mercy. We were tired. It had been more than 20 hours since we left Kamantian. Fatigue discouraged us, but the urgency restored our determination as a life was at risk.                                                                 ---------------- Today’s story is told by Andre Rodrigues, a former student missionary at...

For three days, we took turns manually ventilating Maman’s wife so she could breathe. It was an agonizing time when life and death crossed paths.                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Andre Rodrigues, a former student missionary at the Palawano Project of the Philippines.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to...

“As a teenager, I saw a movie about somebody who healed people and loved people and was so kind. And at the end of the movie, he ended up dying, nailed to a cross, with a whole bunch of people who he had helped and loved watching him, and he forgave them,” Dena said. “Wow! That’s Jesus,” Elisha replied.                                                                ---------------- Today’s story i...

Usually, when I share the gospel with people, I don’t yell at them. But in that car, as I was being yelled at, I don’t know what happened. I got emotional, and I started yelling back. “Remember this day! Not only your son, but YOU will be running to our church before your son.”                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Sergo Namoradze,...

He tore down his room in searching for his Bible, pretending he was making some renovations in his room so that his parents wouldn’t suspect anything.                                                                ---------------- Today’s story, coming from the Georgian project, is told by Sergo Namoradze, a member of AFM's International Field Operations department. Subscribe and leave us a r...

“By blocking the wheels of a foreigner’s car, it is more than just an aggressive move. It is a symbolic accusation of being a thief. In our West African culture, that is a serious insult to a guest. You are not only making yourself look bad, you are dishonoring your country.”                                                                 ---------------- Today’s story is told by Michée Badé, AFM...

Once upon a time, in a far-away village up in the mountains of Palawan, lived a polite but eccentric old witch doctor. . . .                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Leonda George of the Palawano Project in the Philippines.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s story!

“ Hmmm . What’s going on? Why such a long prayer over cucumbers?” Listen to Alisha Taylor tell several stories from her time on the Himadri Project.                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Alisha Taylor of the Himadri Project in Central Asia.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s story!

At the top of the hill, we parked, and . . . our brakes went out. The truck started rolling backward through traffic down the hill, and there was nothing we could do to stop it. I opened the door and started waving frantically and shouting, “Get out of the way! Get out of the way!”                                                                 ---------------- Today’s story is told by Joshua Lewi...

“No one was expecting us. Women and children ran screaming into the jungle, never having seen a white man, but soon came creeping back to see the unusual visitors.”                                                                ---------------- Today’s stories are told by David Lackey, former AFM career missionary on the May River Project in Papua New Guinea, and Bara Patel, AFM career missionary...

For some reason, Leonda George, mother of four, seemed to attract creatures. “I saw this rat coming across a two by two and headed toward me and my bed. . . I started screaming, and the rat got startled.” What’s a mother to do?                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Leonda George of the Palawano Project in the Philippines.  Subscrib...