November 5, 2025
Missions of Hope International began in the Nairobi slums with the goal of serving the poor through education, spiritual development, economic empowerment, and basic medical care.
October 6, 2022
Christian individuals and ministries are working together with the goal of raising the necessary funds to install 10 mini-pitch turf soccer fields in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. The first two fields were installed by a joint team of U.S. and Kenyan workers this spring.
August 15, 2020
By Laura McKillip Wood Rebecca sits on a blanket in the yard that surrounds her home, a one-room grass hut. Her four children play around her, along with her sister’s five children. Rebecca is the sole support for her children, her mother, her sister, and her nieces and nephews. Rebecca’s husband joined the military in South Sudan, their home country, years ago. He left the family to fight in a war there and has not returned. Eventually, she and her family fled from their homeland to Adjumani, a community of refugees in Uganda. Life has been difficult for Rebecca and
October 31, 2017
By Greg Pruett It was my first day on the job back in 1994, and I was eager to get started. I walked onto the West African scene fully trained to translate the Bible””tomes of knowledge about Greek, linguistics, and missiology crammed into my mind. But when the sun rose on my first workday at Pioneer Bible Translators, my mentor didn”t escort me to a desk to show me how to translate. Instead, he walked me over to a well he had hand-dug for the village to show these Muslim people the love of Christ, and we started troubleshooting a
November 15, 2014
We asked five missions leaders in the Christian churches to answer several key questions about missions progress, obstacles, and opportunities: Reggie Hundley is executive director of Missions Services Association, Knoxville, Tennessee. Doug Lucas is president of Team Expansion, Louisville, Kentucky. Doug Priest is executive director of Christian Missionary Fellowship, Indianapolis, Indiana. Greg Pruett is president of Pioneer Bible Translators, Dallas, Texas. Tony Twist is president of TCM International Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana. What are the most hopeful signs regarding international, cross-cultural evangelism you see in our movement today? Greg Pruett: Many are valuing working among the unreached peoples of the world,
November 18, 2010
Doug Priest encourages seniors to consider direct missions involvement, showing how changing mission trends, flexible terms, and holistic ministry create meaningful opportunities to serve.
July 18, 2010
Dick Alexander reflects on overseas mission work that shares both the gospel and practical care, with examples from Ukraine, Cambodia, and Kenya.
January 27, 2010
Dick Alexander discusses how local churches can build missions into their DNA, prioritize unreached people, support long-term missionaries, and approach short-term trips with humility and purpose.
Curtis Booher and Phyllis Fox examine millennial students, their generational traits, and why youth ministry must become more holistic, intergenerational, participatory, and rooted in the gospel.
January 29, 2006
Doug Priest reflects on the Restoration Movement’s heritage and the freedoms he values—freedom to choose, fellowship, listen, serve, and cooperate—while pursuing unity and holistic ministry across the Stone-Campbell tradition.
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