To Create Jubilant, Festive Atmosphere
Chinese take their New Year’s celebrations from Israelite traditions.
Chinese take their New Year’s celebrations from Israelite traditions.
We had just moved into our apartment in Nikopol Ukraine. Stuart, a missionary just north, in Belarus, helped us get settled and thought it would be a good idea to take me to the …
Just asking why we have the traditions we do, and wondering if we should change them to make the holidays more enjoyable
Some cultures have had to make some adaptions to Christmas…
Micheal brings a whole new meaning to the term “Extra leg room”. He was adopted from an orphanage in Taipei, Taiwan, and was born with a rare condition in which neither of his feet developed, …
Our community is still reeling from the events of the Christmas Parade last weekend. The following testimony was shared from a friend. It is sensitive, so proceed with caution. “Tonight, our family was spared as …
This story was provided by Valerie Merrill. They were missionaries in Belarus for fifteen years. They invited my husband and I to Ukraine to work establish the church in Nikopol from contacts they made in …
With the change in season, my mind is drawn back to a time in Ukraine. There is a term in Russian, ‘babushka’, which technically means ‘grandmother’, but was often used to refer to any older …
Typhoon season in Taiwan, we always had one or two rip through and cause a lot of mischief. I remember one year in particular; I was about fifteen. I went out on the front patio …
When I was little, my parents were missionaries in Taiwan. There was an orphanage in our town called the Home of God’s Love. The director of this orphanage invited my parents to help them with …