What if you couldn’t go to church this Sunday?
What’s your Sunday routine? Maybe you get up, wrangle your kids, put on your best clothes, pile your family into the minivan, and barely make it to church before the singing begins. And then after service you rush off to go to lunch with friends or family. Even if...
How to talk to your kids about persecution: Central African Republic
Sometimes bad things happen to good people who are trying to live for Christ. That may be one of the best ways to describe persecution to your children or grandchildren. Since their lives are so different from kids living in countries like Nigeria, North Korea, and...
How to talk to your kids about persecution: China
As the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church draws closer, I hope you’ve had the opportunity to utilize some of the resources on worldhelp.net/prayer. There you’ll find prayer sheets for kids and teenagers, which have age-appropriate stories to teach...
An idyllic life lost for the sake of Christ
Ammar had the perfect life. He had a beautiful wife, two loving children, a successful career as a teacher, and he lived in a prominent city in Iraq. We’ve changed Ammar’s name for his protection because he eventually lost everything in order to follow Christ. One...
Sick, then stripped of their Scriptures
Bursting into the hospital room, the Hindu radicals demanded to see the patients’ Bibles. With quivering hands, the weak men and women handed over the Christian literature they had requested from the hospital staff. The Hindu militants accused the hospital staff...
Every day, I try to live my life in such a way that I accomplish at least one thing that will outlive me and last for eternity.