Life Changing Stories

African-American pastors experience God’s timing in Ecuador

Tony Mathews was on a mission. He wanted to find the man he had led to Christ a couple of days earlier. Mathews, pastor of North Garland Baptist Fellowship in Garland, Texas, had met Wiston while ...

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Offering helps missionaries transport gospel to coastal villages in Ecuador

IMB missionaries Johnny and Donna Maust travel up and down the coast in Ecuador, visiting churches to ...

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Missions ‘just got personal’ for Texas pastor Tony Mathews

Tony Mathews had thought global missions wasn’t for everyone, that as a pastor his focus should be on the local church.

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Becoming ‘fishers of men’ among fishing communities in Ecuador

Ecuadorian Christian Amadeo Torres took Jesus’ command in Matthew 4:19 literally: “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” When contemplating how to share the gospel with an unbelieving friend in a way the man could relate to, Amadeo encouraged ...

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Shared ethnicity helps African-American believers reach Afro-Ecuadorians

The Ecuadorian boy was awestruck. He just couldn’t reconcile what he was seeing with what he was hearing.

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Texas pastor challenges church to ‘step it up’ in global missions giving, going

Dozens of missionary families gathered for a meeting in South Africa, but missions volunteer Jacquie Collins...

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