At a time when my own heart was screaming agonizing questions of “Why is this happening, Jesus?” a frail, needy widow worn by years of spending herself for God was ministering to me.

Many of the peoples of Chad are still nomadic, and the cattle market is where the many different tribes intersect with each other.

God is working miracles in a small Digo village.

Catch a glimpse of the Samburu tribe’s cultural traditions.

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — African proverb

Meet the Laarim unreached people group of South Sudan.

Only Jesus could bring together a wacky team like us. But I can’t imagine doing this work without a team.

What we’re attempting to do here among the Antakarana people is very much the same as building something new.

“God is doing things within peoples’ hearts, and our job is just to be available when the Holy Spirit is moving.”

At the end of the Samburu TIMO team’s two-year term, they gathered together in Nairobi to share their stories.

Glimpses of TIMO life in the mountains of Lesotho.

Meet the outreach team working with the Lopit unreached people group.

The dedication of three men in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This group of young men was singing the word of God, and they were loving it.

We haven’t been here that long. Relatively speaking. But a lot can happen in a thousand days.

As my eyes tried to take it all in, I found myself at peace watching these people. Not one of them seemed upset, sad, or hurt. Almost all of them had smiles on their faces, and joy that was visible in their souls.

But you who are strong enough to do and to dare for Jesus…

They run on fear, on drugs, and on the will to survive one more day. Some, a few fortunate ones, run into a second chance.

I knew there must be women in this community who could be my friends, and not just the kind that you chat with in passing, but someone I could really know.

Somewhere in that seemingly inattentive audience, there was one elderly catechist teacher who had inherited a set of instruments that the Zande people call anzoro. Like many of his people, this man associated the anzoro with dancing and drinking parties. Certainly it was not something to be brought to church.