Frontier Missions Journal

We didn’t have a Christmas tree this year, so my brother and I made one from banana leaves and a coconut branch.                                                                ---------------- Today’s stories are told by Sarah Unglaub and Amy Ackmody, AFM missionary alumni on the Lobi Project in Burkina Faso, Western Africa.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s stor...

“Do not welcome into your homes the young people camped nearby. Do not study the Bible with them, and do not attend the lectures. If you go to that church, your firstborn will die.” Accused of causing trouble in a Tongan African village, what were these young Bible workers to do? They prayed. Would God intervene?                                                                 ---------------- Toda...

Jet had made the decision to be baptized. But he hadn’t counted the cost of what it would mean to tell his family. This would require full commitment.                                                                ---------------- Today’s stories are told by Andy Murphy, AFM career missionary on the Tai-Kadai Project in Southeast Asia and Joshua Lewis, AFM career missionary on the Great River Peop...

Oh, no, what am I going to do? I bought a 25-pound bag of sticky rice . . . and I don’t know how to cook it. Oh, what a mistake!                                                                 ---------------- Today’s story is told by Mary Murphy of the Tai-Kadai Project in Southeast Asia.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s story!

One day I want to ask them, “If you hate the cross so much, why is that image on your uniform?”                                                                 ---------------- Today’s story is told by Joshua Lewis of the Great River People Project in Cambodia.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s story!

Ham knelt down beside me, got close and said in a low voice, “Are you a Christian? I have some friends who are Christians and they have been telling me that I should be a Christian.”                                                                ---------------- Today’s stories are told by David Hicks, former AFM career missionary on the Tonga project in Mozambique and Joshua Lewis, current AFM ca...

"Who in his right mind would hike into a den of thieves just for the sake of curiosity? They come here at night and steal our cattle and our pigs. Watch out, they’re all thieves and murderers!"                                                                ---------------- Today’s stories are told by Herb and Linda Prandl, former AFM career missionaries on the Lobi Project in Burkina Fas...

All of a sudden, I felt a hand on my shoulder shaking me, and I pried my eyes open. I thought I saw my son Enoch standing there. Daddy, I’m sorry. I think I killed the camera.                                                                ---------------- Today’s stories are told by Enoch and Josiah Nicholaides of the Hill Tribes of Ratanakiri Project in Cambodia.  Subscribe and leave us a review...

“I don’t want to change sides,” she stated. “Then I will make you,” came the reply. Hannah doesn’t remember what happened next.                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Veronica Nicholaides of the Hill Tribes of Ratanakiri Project in Cambodia.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s story!

Part two of our story “Ahmed and Akachi: From Folk Islam to Christ.”                                                              ---------------- 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!

I am sick. I am alone. I am rejected by my family. God, I’ve never smoked or drank. My mother had never gone hungry when I had money. Why is this situation happening to me?                                                                 ---------------- 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 toda...

So she induced the mother, who had her baby very quickly, probably an hour later. We were hoping that would help save the mother, that it would stop all the convulsing. Unfortunately, she continued to decline, and the baby was born, weighing about 3.5 pounds.                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Ali Brooks of the Fulani Project in...

Silhouettes of trees and floating grass reflecting in the mirror-like water loomed around us like black ghosts, ready to swallow us up should our boat miss a turn. Mother and daughter huddled around the expectant woman, tending to her needs by the dim light of a kerosene lamp.                                                                   ----------------  Today’s stories are told by Stephen Er...

Cough. COUGH!   Robert’s poor wife was vomiting up hookworms. “Oh, dear! I don’t have any worm medicine to treat her with,” Laurie thought. “Hmm, I wonder . . .”                                                                      ---------------- Today’s stories are told by Laurie Erickson, a former AFM missionary to the Gogodala people and now an AFM field director.  Subscribe and leave us a rev...

Tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tukah! Tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tukah!  It’s the three-legged gecko again. . . singing. It has no reason, in my opinion, to do that in the middle of the night.                                                                     ---------------- Today’s stories are told by Arnold Hooker, a former AFM missionary, during his time on projects in Malaysia.  Subscribe and leave us a revie...

An elderly man sitting in the back of the room raised his hand to speak. His question haunts me to this day.                                                                ---------------- Today’s four stories are told by Stephen Erickson of the Gogodala Project in Papua New Guinea.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s story!

Are you a Christian? How would you answer that question asked by someone climbing on your wall?                                                                ---------------- Today’s stories are told by Arnold Hooker and recall events at the Pnong Project in Cambodia and the Himadri Project in Southeast Asia.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s story!

“Man,  your bread is amazing. I’ve never tasted such good sourdough bread, even in France!” Lolo exclaimed as his face lit up inside our Cambodian bakery.                                                                ---------------- Today’s four stories are told by Deon and Rene Theunissen of the Pnong Project in Cambodia.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s stor...

Ezra and Bibi walked through the jungle, stepping over a partially concealed tripwire, to find out why Bibi’s friend was afraid to come to church. They soon found themselves at her friend’s house . . . right in the middle of a big rebel military camp filled with gun-wielding men.                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Ezra Waters, a...

“Only when you abandon Christianity will you have access to the documents,” Adama’s family said to her after kicking her out of the house.  How was she going to enroll in school now?                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Vanius Dias of the Geba Animist Project in Guinea Bissau.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listen...

“Get up! Get up!” the gendarme shouted as they banged on the front door. “Why are you here?” Grace asked as she opened her door to the armed policemen. SLAP! “Get up. You have to come with us.”                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Ali Brooks of the Fulani Project in Central Africa.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed l...

“God, why am I going through this?” Nani asked, still believing He had a purpose and a plan for her life. “God, show my family that your power is above the spirits.”                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Vanius Dias of the Geba Animist Project in Guinea Bissau.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s st...

“When you let God write your story, you are embracing the best life!” Two lives. Two calls to the same mission field, years apart. Now, one newly wedded couple is preparing to go and serve the Ama Tribe of Papua New Guinea.                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Sean and Joella Brizendine of the Ama Project in Papua New Guinea.  Sub...

Want to know how to start a church-planting movement? Go and share the wonderful things God has been doing in your life.                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Cristian Jara of the Pnong Project in Cambodia.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listening to today’s story!

“Ohayo gozaimasu,” came the loud and boisterous greeting of “Good morning” in Japanese. And so began our delightful ritual of greeting each other as Caitlyn and I walked to and from language school.                                                                ---------------- Today’s story is told by Michael Babienco of the Japanese Project.  Subscribe and leave us a review if you enjoyed listen...