Voices

Nik Fraustro remembers when Sunday traditions changed in his family growing up. According to him, Sundays were for football, baseball, and other sports. His family didn’t go to church and his father was a corpsman in the United States Navy, meaning they were accustomed to moving. […]

Camp ministry and retreats had already played a significant role in both Eddie and Allyson’s lives before they met. When they did meet it was, serendipitously, at a United Methodist Conference camp […]

For Jess Avery, one of the first calls to leadership in the church came at a Dairy Queen in Dublin, Georgia, when she was 16 years old. At that age, Jess had already developed a desire for spiritual community and started a small group at her high school of like-minded students in their pursuit of the Lord. […]

As a fairly new Christian in his college years, instead of spending one spring break skiing in the mountains or going to the beach like some of his friends, Kevin Watson went on a short-term mission trip to Mexico. […]

“I would like to mix mental health with Christianity and show how they go hand in hand… Mental health is as important as physical health. I have a shirt that says, ‘It’s okay to have Jesus and a therapist too.’”

Jim Ramsay began to develop a love of culture and language while he was in college. He spent one semester studying abroad and began discovering the wider world in his emerging years […]

From Engineering to Pastoring Fernando Lua was educated as a civil engineer before becoming a pastor and theologian. Having become a follower of Jesus in his third year of college, he had already become very […]

“I think our current mission remains unchanged and that is to trust the Lord to raise Christ-like servant leaders for the Great Commission. I think the harvest is still plentiful in Asia, but the laborers are few.”

“I want to not be against something, but I want to be for something. I want to be for who Jesus is and how I’ve experienced him in my life and how I’ve seen so many others experience Jesus.”

James Hudson “Jamie” Taylor IV has dedicated his life to missionary work in China and among Chinese people around the world. With over 30 years in ministry, he has played a pivotal role in the […]