Larry Doyle traveled to Solos villages in 2021 to gather information for the dialect survey. The desk work of writing the survey was not as "glamorous." Time spent away from the teams in the villages is both needed and useful. It’s not as ‘glamorous’ to work day after day at the desk in the little rented office, but without that background work the overall translation program would be greatly impoverished. One example of the things that get done is the Solos Dialect Survey th

My eyes were glued. What I was watching was so powerful that I found myself attentively taking in every word that was being spoken.  George Otis, Jr., the narrator for the video entitled “Transformations,” was saying, “ True spiritual revival is like a seething lava flow. It takes time to reach its destination. But when it does, its intense heat and formidable power alter everything in its path. It is the full measure of God’s kingdom come to earth.”  He then proceeded to tel

Dr. Gayle Woods, pastor of Spot Bay and Watering Place churches, recently wrote, “Cayman Brac is a community. It is an extended family. The government as well as the numerous postal districts plan community activities throughout the year. December is especially full of things to do and places to go.” Each church also had a Sunday evening Christmas program, and they both saw crowds close to capacity. “Midst our times of celebration and worship,” Dr. Woods continued, “hurt and

This month Dr. Jim Lo and Board chairman Joe Trussell will be traveling to Ecuador to visit a potential future ministry with new non-residential missionaries, Doug and Bridgette Wallace. We will be introducing them in an upcoming newsletter. Ask God to guide and direct those traveling.

In the final months of 2025, World Missions had some big needs. The Annual Harvest Offering was published to raise funds for exploratory trips for new ministries. In the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, a request was sent out for relief funds for Jamaica. A family in the Middle East needed an additional $15,000 in ministry support before the end of the year. The Doyle family in Papua New Guinea needed an additional $20,000 to support their ministry through their return next su

A reality of global missions is this: it is getting harder and harder for individuals to obtain residential visas to stay for long periods of time in many countries. Because of this increasing challenge, mission agencies are listing a new category of missionary service. It is called the “non-residential missionary.” David Garrison, in his book, The Nonresidential Missionary (Innovations in Mission) , put it this way: “ The nonresidential missionary is a career foreign mission