Where Worlds Meet

“Humble,” “hungry” and “smart” are the three virtues that Patrick Lencioni, author of The Ideal Team Player, argues are the core character traits needed to make someone an ideal part of a team. After reading more about these three characteristics in his New York Times-bestselling book, it’s easy to see [...]

I love reading novels, or watching movies about the Second World war, and how the resistance in different countries tried to organise itself in an effective way. I’m intrigued by the fact that the church in general was so silent when Hitler came to power, and that someone like Bonhoeffer [...]

As we went out to the red-light district in Moldova in the Mobile Medical Intervention Clinic, we approached a young woman dressed in a silver dress.  She was very young, nervous, and visibly upset. She did not want to talk to us.  We approached her with a gift pack and [...]

Nirmala’s life had become one of tears. It seemed she did nothing but cry. The young woman had returned to the home of her parents after a disastrous six-month marriage, one she had eloped into, against the wishes of her family and everyone who knew her. Nirmala had fallen in [...]

I stood before my home church as the missionary speaker, sharing stories that had been entrusted to me during my first year as a missionary journalist in Eurasia. One of the stories was the faith journey of Irina Albei (Bucharest, Albania) and how God saved her unborn baby during a [...]

When I came to France in 1989, there was not any Arabic church in Paris. So with a Christian friend I organized an Egyptian fellowship, a group of Christians who met on Sunday afternoon in the basement of the French Church of the Nazarene in Paris. The group started to [...]