More than a few mission supporters overestimate the spirituality of the missionaries they support. In the minds of some, missionaries are the super-elite frontline troops in the advance of the [...]

If you ride a motorcycle often, you get used to this question: “Have you ever had to ‘lay it down’”? Invariably the seasoned biker has had at least one occassion where he or she has had to [...]

I was asked to preach on Thanksgiving/Harvest Sunday in a mainly tribal church in Chiang Mai called “Beulah Church”. It was impressive to see a huge mound of fruit pilled up at the pulpit that [...]

Before making a one day visa run to Bangkok, I prayed that I would have an opportunity to share Bible stories with the Thai I encountered that day. The first was a retired civil engineer in his [...]

In 1975 I was a student at Dallas Theological Seminary. Dr. Dan Bacon (DTS grad and OMF director at the time) was the chapel speaker and asked us students whether we were praying for any specific [...]

After a 3 day bible story training in Mae Sot, North Thailand, Kennedy Paizs and I were making the five hour trek back to Chiang Mai. I noticed an elderly monk hitch hiking by the side of the [...]

I’ve never liked hospitals. Glad I have not needed to go often at all. Naturally, they are places that you go to because you have to, or feel called to be. Hospitals can be places of [...]

We came to a noodle shop and general store, and there we found Uanbu sitting at a table.  We sat down to talk with him, as Theerachai shared the prodigal son story, using an OMF poster-preaching [...]

At this time we are in the USA for home assignment. Something that I have been doing in Thailand is using Bible story telling as a way to connect with people in the Word of God. While we are here [...]