Purpose Asia

"For  now we see through a glass ,  darkly ; but then face to face:  now  I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."  1 Corinthians 13:12      Tomorrow I will work my last day at the job I've had for the last two years. It truly has been one of the best jobs I've ever had and I'm sad to leave it. However, I am excited in another way because its yet another tangible step on the path toward God's calling on my life. Everyday I'm getting one step closer to leaving for Papua New Guinea in January.          As I was sitting down to write this post and considering all of the changes going on in preparation to leave long-term to the mission field I thought of the verse above. The verse right before it is one that's been rumbling around in my brain through this whole process, " When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ...

Early in life, Kristina lost two of her three children during childbirth. The emotional pain devastated her, but she was also very physically wounded. In the attempts to save the children and repair her ravaged body, Kristina underwent four agonizing surgeries. The trauma from these events lingered in her life for many years. Later on, she was introduced to Christianity. And though the hurts from her life persisted, after a time, she placed her faith in Christ and began to follow Him. Soon after that, she and twenty-nine other participants from seven languages were given the opportunity to attend an Oral Bible Storytelling (OBS) workshop in Wewak, Papua New Guinea. The courses at the workshop—divided into four modules that took place throughout the year—were designed to teach Papua New Guineans how to memorize and retell Scripture in a way that’s familiar in their culture where storytelling is an art. After the first module, Kristina returned home and shared the Bible storie...

Hey Everyone, This video tells the story of some Wycliffe missionaries working to translate the Bible for the people of Arop village in Papua New Guinea. It's long but incredibly and I highly recommend it.

" The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility"                                            ~Angus Buchan One of my favorite movies is the true life story of a preacher from South Africa. That sounds like a boring start, but let me tell you, his life is anything but boring. The movie tells the story of how he moves from a life of anger and desperation to one of bold, fulfilled faith and how he trusts God for the impossible. He sees God come through in an amazing way when he feels God asks him to plant potatoes, a water dependent crop, during one of South Africa's worst droughts. The results were incredible and Angus went from being an obscure farmer to a great preacher and through all that he made the statement above, " The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great ...