Yearly Archives: 2010

Hidden heroes in the heart of Africa

I just received for review the manuscript of the second book in the Hidden Heroes series: The Good News Must Go Out, due out in the spring. It was about a year ago that a friend at church, knowing I

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Passing the torch from one missionary to another, part 2

A few days ago I received an email from Papua New Guinea, sections of which I’ve abbreviated and included here: For years now we’ve been wondering how to contact Dick McLellan. I was personally challenged into mission work through Dick’s

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Passing the torch over three hundred years

Our friends, Odell and Beth Summer, are preparing for a particular mission field in Thailand. Who laid the groundwork for that mission field? In 1695, August Francke, a direct product of the Reformation, founded an orphanage in Prussia and supported

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Why I’m writing the Hidden Heroes series

The first book in the “Hidden Heroes” series of missionary stories has recently come out. The second has just been accepted for publication. This seems like a good time to tell you the philosophy behind the writing of these books.

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Revival in China . . . and Iran

I’ve been reading The Heavenly Man to my two teenagers at lunchtime. This book, which deeply influenced me three years ago, is about the great revival that took place in China in the 1970s and 1980s, in the very midst

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The cover for my new book! “With Two Hands”

It’s for the book of missionary stories due out in March in the United Kingdom and in May in the United States. I’m so happy with it! When people ask me which of the true stories in this book is

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