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Category Archives: Missions

“Stay Fundamental”

A good read at Bob Bixby’s Pensees

US Missionary Fined $28K for Shipping Motor Oil, WD-40 to Sudan

Story in the Washington Times:
The Rev. Sam Childers says he might need a lawyer.
The Pennsylvania missionary operates an orphanage for victims of the war in Sudan’s Darfur region and he’s in a fight with federal aviation officials over a $28,000 fine for some supplies he tried to send to his children in Africa.
For more than [...]

Died: Harold Commons, Former President of ABWE and Baptist Bible Seminary

Obituary in The Baptist Bulletin
Technorati Tags: Fundamentalism, GARBC, Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, ABWE, Baptist Bible Seminary

MissionsGear Blog Features Practical Ideas for Missionaries

Birch Champeon provides a very helpful service blog featuring practical tips for the frequent missions traveler

BMM Missionary Returns To Brazil Following Debilitating Gunshot Wounds

The Des Moines Register- “Missionary back to work despite injury”:
Battered, maybe, but not broken.
John Leonard’s work is not done yet.
Leonard, 47, a longtime member of and missionary for the Saylorville Baptist Church north of Des Moines, was shot at close range by two gunmen outside his mission church in Brazil on July 3, 2005. He [...]