October 31, 2008
Due to instability in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa, two student interns, Kate Manske and Benjamin Lawson, of Crown College’s nursing program are being brought home from the Heal Africa Hospital in Goma.
October 27, 2008
Alliance Chaplain Andy Kikuta received the prestigious John A. Price Excellency in Chaplaincy Award recently at the Annual Training Seminar of the International Conference of Police Chaplains in Mobile, Alabama. Kikuta has served with the Honolulu, Hawaii, police department for 23 years and currently is the senior chaplain of seven volunteer chaplains. “My [...]
Mrs. Ruth Nelda Amstutz, retired missionary to Chile, entered into the presence of the Lord on Tuesday, October 21, 2008. She was 92. Before her marriage to Mahlon in 1941, Ruth was a high school teacher in Kansas. Both she and Mahlon attended Asbury College and Nyack Missionary Training Institute before their appointment as [...]
October 22, 2008
by an Alliance missionary to West Africa For many years I had a Fulani “grandma.” I called her Pati. If she and I had been the same age, we would have been best friends—she was that cool. Over the years I picked up bits and pieces of information, understanding that for some undisclosed reason, her [...]
October 21, 2008
In September, the Alliance national church in Guinea and the Guinean government-run television station signed a contract with Christian Broadcast Network (CBN) to begin broadcasting some of CBN’s French Christian programming, including The 700 Club. Alliance Pastor Marcel Telliano will be the CBN Guinea representative, helping to provide world-class programming to the television station. Pray [...]
It was a week when James 1:26–27 was put into action. The national church of Burkina Faso held its first widows conference in Bobo-Dioulasso in October 2008. Missionary Esther Schaeffer, working in conjunction with ACCEDES, the national church’s relief and development agency, and the church’s Alliance Women, organized this week of meetings, meals, fellowship, and [...]
By Kiersten Hull, missionary to Burkina Faso True religion that God considers faultless and pure, according to James 1:26–27 is, “to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” The national church of Burkina Faso held the first national widows’ conference in Bobo-Dioulasso in [...]
“We were so encouraged to see more than 100 people in attendance,” said Larry Burg after visiting the three-year-old Pissy (pronounced PC) church plant, which began with a core group of seven people. “They have had 34 conversions this year and 22 baptisms.” The church hosts a Compassion International ministry for about 175 [...]
October 16, 2008
D.M. Duquilla, a youth leader at the Word of Grace (WOG) Family Christian Fellowship (Alliance) of Chicago, ran in the October 12, 2008, world-class long distance running event: the 31st Bank of America Chicago Marathon, representing Word of Grace, in an effort to raise money for missions. The race is limited to 45,000 runners on [...]
“The Poipet border has reopened, and the city has returned mostly to normal,” said an Alliance spokesperson in Cambodia following a recent Thai-Cambodia border skirmish. “Our workers appreciated your prayers. They truly experienced God’s peace in the midst of this storm, and they attribute that to God’s goodness and the prayers of His people.” One [...]
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