Many adopted children struggle with abandonment and identity issues. As an orphan raised in a number of foster homes, Ron Edgecombe was described as non-adoptable, possibly an imbecile, and mostly likely to be committed to an institution. With undiagnosed dyslexia, no one would have imagined that Ron would one day receive a doctorate and serve as a missionary … [Read more...] about Ron Edgecombe: Missionary printer to Argentina
Biography
Garth Hunt, from Vietnam to Living Bibles to World Serve to an elder missions statesman
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
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
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