At 10:51 on April 29, 1975, the American radio station began playing Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the signal for American personnel to move immediately to the evacuation points. Garth Hunt, an Alliance Church (C&MA) missionary in Vietnam since 1957, was one of the last people to leave Vietnam during the fall of Saigon. No one could leave without an exit stamp. It … [Read more...] about Garth Hunt, from Vietnam to Living Bibles to World Serve to an elder missions statesman
Rev. Dr. Ed & Janice Hird
Books by Rev. Dr. Ed & Janice Hird include God's Firestarters; Blue Sky, a novel; and For Better, For Worse: Discovering the keys to a Lasting Relationship. Dr Ed’s newest award-winning book The Elisha Code is co-authored with Rev. David Kitz. Earlier books by Dr. Ed include the award-winning Battle for the Soul of Canada, and Restoring Health: Body, Mind, & Spirit.
Mayor William Howland: Canadian home missions pioneer
Why has Toronto, Ontario, sometimes been called Toronto the Good? It goes back to Mayor William Howland, a Christian business person who gave away most of his considerable wealth to local home missions. William’s father was the Honorable William Pearce Howland, second Lieutenant-Governor and Finance Minister of Ontario (1868-1873), John A. Macdonald’s first Minister of … [Read more...] about Mayor William Howland: Canadian home missions pioneer
The Residential School tragedy: Every child matters
Written by Ruth Hird and Rev. Dr. Ed Hird Oh, Canada...we have so much to answer for. What would it take for us to truly rediscover that every child matters? Before the COVID lockdown, I (Ruth) attended the Children of God musical where Corey Payette performs 'Gimikwenden Ina (Do You Remember)'. I invite you to listen to this song in remembering the 215 … [Read more...] about The Residential School tragedy: Every child matters
Dr. Robert Jaffray, Missionary publisher
When it came to missions, Robert Jaffray and his publisher father did not agree. His biographer AW Tozer commented, “Age, paternal authority and the strong leverage of economic pressure – all were on his (dad’s) side, while Rob had only his vision, his crusader’s zeal and his dogged determination to obey God rather than man.” Jaffrey, at age seventeen, had been … [Read more...] about Dr. Robert Jaffray, Missionary publisher
Dr. A.W. Tozer’s missionary heart for the lost
Dr. A.W. Tozer’s many writings stir us to think, to feel, to hope, and to search – both locally and globally. He believed that the widest thing in the universe is not space: it is the potential of the human heart. Tozer knew that the best Christian leaders had large hearts. Nothing can take the place of affection. Why read Tozer? He gives us God’s missionary heart for the … [Read more...] about Dr. A.W. Tozer’s missionary heart for the lost