“And other seeds fell into good soil, and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and a hundredfold.” — Mark 4:8, ESV Paul and Margaret Hoesterey know a little something about planting seeds. Paul has spent years working at a...
Sitting in the doctor’s office, Chris and Mary listened to the list of shots and possible illnesses with growing apprehension.Meningitis. Typhoid. Yellow Fever.“There was a point where we were kind of like, we must be crazy,” said Mary, laughing. “What are we doing,...
Dec. 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor was bombed Nov. 22, 1963: President John F. Kennedy was assassinated Jan. 28, 1986: The space shuttle Challenger exploded Sept. 11, 2001: Terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and crashed in a Pennsylvania field These...
Outside the new library at Destiny Villages of Hope, children eagerly lined up, waiting for their chance to enter the new building. The mood was cheerful, with balloons, songs of praise, and anticipation filling the air. Mary and her family had traveled from the U.S....
“We are the people who ran from South Sudan,” Beatrice said as she stood on the outskirts of the Pagirinya refugee camp in Uganda. Beyond her, the camp was overflowing with others who also had fled the violence. But for Beatrice, South Sudan isn’t just a country of...
