Articles for tag: Japan Missions

Called, Challenged, Changed

Lena Wood has a lifelong passion for missions and writing. The result is a three-volume set of mission trip devotions and journals.     By Andy Rector  In 1970, a teenage Lena Wood sat on a plane with her sister and others bound for Japan. Never having flown before, she was terrified. What would happen on this trip into the unknown?  As it turns out, she fell in love with missions on that trip. Over the summer, she and her team sang and gave testimonies at camps, schools, churches, and even a leper colony.  “When we left,” she says. “I bawled.

FROM MY BOOKSHELF: From Mathematics to Mystery

  By Leroy Lawson Marvin L. Bittinger, The Faith Equation: One Mathematician”s Journey in Christianity (Indianapolis: Literary Architects, 2007). The Faith Equation is one book I”d have never picked up on my own. I don”t like being reminded of my ignorance. I may know a little about a few things, but I know nothing about mathematics. But what do you do when the author gives you an inscribed copy? He wasn”t trying to get into this column; he doesn”t know I write it. He just wanted to share his faith with another believer and, because of his vocation, his faith

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