Dea Davidson

EDITOR’S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for International Missions, Nov. 30-Dec. 7, focuses on missionaries who serve in South America as well as churches partnering with them, exemplifying the global outreach supported by Southern Baptists’ gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. This year’s theme is “GO TELL the story of Jesus”; the national […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for International Missions, Nov. 30-Dec. 7, focuses on missionaries who serve in South America as well as churches partnering with them, exemplifying the global outreach supported by Southern Baptists’ gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. This year’s theme is “GO TELL the story of Jesus”; the national […]

LA RINCONADA, Ecuador (BP)--Darrell Musick shifted his tan Chevy pickup into four-wheel drive to begin off-roading mountain trails through the Ecuadorian Andes. After pushing his truck to the limit, the missionary and three local believers hiked their way to a small home on the edge of La Rinconada village -– a small Quichua community ...

OSAKA, Japan (BP)--He is truly a carpenter following a carpenter. "At first, you clean it," the Japanese woodcarver explains about treating the rough surface of his favorite wood -– American pine.

JAPAN (BP)--Staring out her bedroom window, 49-year-old Michiko didn't have much to live for in the spring of 2005. Ravaged by a critical illness and depression, Michiko's only source for answers -– her 10-year membership in Shinnyo-en, a Buddhist-derived cult -– even threatened to punish her if she quit the group over her disillusionment.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BP)--When King Solomon began building the temple in Jerusalem in the 10th century B.C., it took 80,000 stonecutters to lay the foundation.

BRNO, Czech Republic (BP)--"It's 'prsi,'" Dad. "'Prsi!'" 7-year-old Miles Hatchel insisted as he planted his hands on his dad's knees and leaned into his face during Bible study.

KRAKOW, Poland (BP)--When Jerry Goss attended a revival service "to please my wife" in 1992, the only Bible passage he knew was the Ten Commandments from the 1956 Charlton Heston movie.       "But I said, 'Don't ask me to go to church again,'" Goss admits. "Then I went to the revival and it all made sense. I knew at that moment that I had sinned against God."       Since accepting Christ that night at age 32, Goss knows no barriers to sharing his faith. In 2003, after serving God through mission trips and a jail ministry, he and his wife Brenda answered God's call to serve as missionaries among the approximately 30,000 to 60,000 Roma Gypsy people of Poland.

BUCHAREST, Romania (BP)--Cornel Tuns navigates many of the roads he traveled as a child in Romania as he locates Roma Gypsy villages near the capital city of Bucharest.

RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Why did you wait so long to come?" Saidi* asked through tears. A Gypsy in one of the countries of Northern Africa and the Middle East, Saidi said, "My father is already dead and in hell because no one came to tell us about Christ. Even today, there are going to be people [who] die and go to hell."