May 20, 2016
By Clinton R. Brown Executive Director I will not soon forget the night in Mozambique I was driving down a roadway and the highway disappeared. It was April of 2016 and we had been visiting African SDB churches that day in the Milange District within sight of the border of Malawi. I was accompanied by Douglas Machado of Brazil, as a translator, because the...
Apr 21, 2016
Focus on Missions Clinton R. Brown A couple weeks ago I was getting my hair cut at our downtown barbershop in Westerly, RI. I had opted for my usual barber and was having one of our normal conversations about travel, missions, and following Jesus in different cultures. Suddenly, the barber at the neighboring chair piped in, “Where are you going? Mozambique? Is...
by Kory and Amanda Langley SDB Church of Texarkana, AR “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” Matthew 5:3 I am going to tell you two different stories from the past year. One happened on the official mission field and one at home. To understand my stories you have to understand this: no matter how much you seem to have or...
Mar 18, 2016
by Rev. Brent Hannah Pastor at Salem, WV, Seventh Day Baptist Church How many times have you traveled to a foreign country not knowing the people with whom you would travel, meet, stay, and work? How many times have you gone to a new place not knowing where you would stay, what you would eat, how you would get around, or even who would pick you up from the...
Feb 22, 2016
by Clinton R. Brown Executive Director Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, – Hebrews 12:1 The course is half completed with three of our two-man training relays having completed...
Jan 22, 2016
By Clinton R. Brown For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. — Luke 9:24 Sitting with the Seventh Day Baptist leaders in Bujumbura, Burundi, we talked and prayed about the struggles of doing ministry in their country. Neither the pastor that came with me nor I had little that compared...