Stella McMillian

The line into one of the stadiums at Tokyo’s Komazawa Olympic Park stretched out the door and down the street. The crowd waited patiently in the crisp fall air for a chance to watch the volleyball semifinals at Deaflympics, a worldwide event that brings Deaf athletes together to compete every four years.

SOUTHEAST ASIA – Rose waited anxiously through the night, checking for a text message from Sari, a new believer she had been discipling. The two met when Sari came to attend college on the island where Rose, an International Mission Board worker in Southeast Asia, lives.

Yep had tried everything to quit drinking, but nothing had ever worked. He lived on the outskirts of his small Thai town with his niece.  

PHILIPPINES – Some of the places with the least access to the Gospel in the Philippines are small rural villages home to many Muslim ethnic people groups. Southern Baptist Filipino churches have begun sending out missionaries to these areas, but it’s often challenging for them to build relationships and be accepted by the villagers.

When Caylen Wood moved to Asia to serve as a Journeyman, she knew a big part of her job would be helping her team connect with NextGen students. In the country where Wood serves, the majority of the population is under 30 years old.

On the morning after Christmas Day in 2004, the coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, was filled with thousands of people fishing, playing with friends and preparing resorts for guests.  They had no idea that 100 miles away, deep in the Indian Ocean, two tectonic plates had collided with enough force to create a massive earthquake […]

Akio, a college student in Osaka, Japan, was lonely when he moved away from his hometown to Osaka for school. He didn’t know many other students there, and Osaka’s population of almost 19 million people made it easy to feel anonymous and alone.   One day, he was invited to a free event some Christians on […]

CHIANG MAI, Thailand (BP) – Getting pregnant at 15 hadn’t been part of Anong’s plans. The young Thai teenager ran away from home to live with her boyfriend’s family, and though they helped a little, the young couple still felt at a loss about how to navigate their situation.

When Sarah Mitchell first moved to Bangkok, Thailand, to serve as a Journeyman to the Deaf with the International Mission Board, it was the first time she’d ever lived anywhere besides the house where she grew up.

This Christmas season, even sub-zero temperatures have not deterred East Asian Christians from sharing the gospel. One country, in particular, is known for frigid winter weather. In the capital city during December, the average daily low temperature is minus 9 degrees Fahrenheit.