Mission Stories & News
William Harrison Anderson
February 2, 2025
Tensions between the Africans and colonial authorities remained a potential source for violent conflict. The authorities recommended that Anderson visit Chief Monze of the Batonga tribe, who had led an uprising a year before, and report any suspicious activity.
Read MoreJohn and Hannah Tay
January 26, 2025
Back in the United States, Tay appealed to church leaders to begin spreading the Adventist faith throughout the Pacific islands. One attempt to do this in the late 1880s failed because of the mysterious disappearance at sea of the Adventist missionary ship Phoebe Chapman.
Read MoreGeorge and Mary-Ann Keough
January 19, 2025
Adventists in Egypt still tell stories of how this European did what Westerners never did. He came into their mudbrick houses, sat on their dirt floors, talked to them in their own language, and ate their food.
Read MoreAbram La Rue
January 12, 2025
The work was difficult and initially yielded little fruit, but La Rue wasn’t discouraged. He wrote, “I suppose that Hong Kong is one of the hardest places in the world in which to accomplish anything with the third angel’s message.”
Read MoreFerdinand and Ana Stahl
January 5, 2025
“Dear afflicted brother Andrews, we deeply sympathize with you in your great sorrow. But we sorrow not as those who have no hope. . . . The Lord loves you, my dear brother, He loves you. . . ."
Read MoreThis Precious Heritage of Faith
December 29, 2024
“Dear afflicted brother Andrews, we deeply sympathize with you in your great sorrow. But we sorrow not as those who have no hope. . . . The Lord loves you, my dear brother, He loves you. . . ."
Read MoreSwitzerland Revisited
December 22, 2024
They had heard the Adventist message through Michael Czechowski, a Polish former Catholic priest who converted to Protestantism and then to Adventism. Albert Vuilleumier, the group elder, made the initial link to the official church in Battle Creek.
Read MoreA Glimpse into the Lives of Adventist Mission’s First Families
December 15, 2024
“Our family circle has been cruelly broken up by death but we know that those who sleep are safe and if we are faithful to God we shall meet them again and never be separated any more. We shall live to all eternity in the society of dear mother.”
Read MoreA Sacrificial Life
December 8, 2024
“Gary, do you really have an elephant in the plane?” “Well, it’s just a baby.” “Gary, how did you put an elephant into a Cessna 172 with four seats?” “It was easy, I just took the seats out.”
Read MoreContinuing the Legacy of John Nevins Andrews
December 1, 2024
Just days before, Kirstein had questioned his purpose in Bolivia. “I asked God ‘Why am I here? I feel like I am just watching children. Is there not more for me?’”
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