Posts by Dixie Carpenter (Page 12)

Posts by Dixie Carpenter (Page 12)

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LOTTIE MOON EMPHASIS Sidewalk Chapel Masuda San was a broken man when he showed up at Mark Bennett’s sidewalk chapel for the homeless in Tokyo, Japan. “It was a typical story. They come for the food,” said Mark, an IMB missionary. “But while they’re there, we give them a portion of Scripture and share the gospel.” And Mark learns their names—a big deal when you feel…

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LOTTIE MOON EMPHASIS Answering Life’s Questions Winters are brutal and days are dark where IMB missionaries Robert and Sharon Pinkston live in Quebec. Hearts are dark too. “There are 8 million Quebecois, or French Canadians,” Robert said. “Before we ever got here, we had heard that only 40,000 of them—0.5 percent—believed in Christ.” But Robert says he believes that if…

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LOTTIE MOON EMPHASIS Sowing Seeds  Donka knows what it’s like to wonder if life could be better than what she’s experienced. She lived most of her younger years under the stifling rule of communism. She’s lived many of her older years as a widow. And on top of that, she can see that Brian and Mandy Davis have something in their life that she doesn’t. The Davises, IMB…

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LOTTIE MOON EMPHASIS  A New Beginning  For months, Paul and Robin Tinley have been watching people spill out of Venezuela and into Colombia. It’s about 5,000 a day—more than 3 million total—who have left their homes in hopes of escaping hunger, crime, unemployment, and lack of medical care. “Not only is the flow of refugees not diminishing, it’s actually bumping up,”…

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LOTTIE MOON EMPHASIS Catching a Vision Hun Sol has a lot of favorites. He loves seeing students sent out through the missions program he runs in South Korea. He loves seeing them work alongside IMB missionaries to take the hope of Christ to parts of Asia that haven’t heard it yet. But most of all, he loves seeing students learn to share the gospel for the very first time.…

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LOTTIE MOON EMPHASIS Gospel on the Move It takes tents, sleeping bags, and a lot of food for Peter Station (name changed) to get out in the remote areas of his East Asian country—the places where the herdsmen live. He throws all his gear in the back of an SUV, drives several days into the wilderness, and camps beside them so he can share the gospel with them. Sometimes…

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LOTTIE MOON EMPHASIS A SEASON OF CHANGE It’s tough to live where Kristin Luttrell and Rachel Sebastian serve as IMB missionaries in Mexico—there’s not much they can change, practically speaking. They can’t change the fact that people there do back-breaking work in the fields. They can’t change the fact that after that, the people work night shifts at the packaging plant,…

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering Emphasis

LOTTIE MOON EMPHASIS Here to Serve IMB President Dr. Paul Chitwood knew missionaries faced challenges in taking the gospel to the unreached. But on a recent trip to East Africa, every ride down a dusty road and every walk down a city street was a reminder that every single missionary faces unique struggles. And every single prayer for a missionary matters. So Paul offered…