Editor’s Note: Thank you, Southern Baptists, for your commitment to the missions’ effort through your support of the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. In the coming weeks we will share with you expressions of gratitude and stories of how the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering has made an impact among East Asian peoples, [...]

This is part two of a two-part series about Tian, a convict who escaped execution, became a believer, and was paroled from prison.
Tian’s Call to Ministry
One night, around the dinner table, Tian*, the former convict, shared his testimony with two American believers. He shared that he had committed his life to God, and that his [...]

A Convict Escapes Execution
About twenty years ago, Tian* and three other men committed a crime punishable by death. His friends were captured, put through a speedy trial, and immediately executed. Tian eluded capture for two years. His parents paid a bribe that spared him from execution, but he was put into a maximum-security prison from [...]

The American workers in East Asia had just settled into their taxi when the woman leaned forward and gently asked the taxi driver in his own language, “Do you know Jesus?” The driver considered this question a few seconds before proudly replying, “No, but I know Johanna!”
The workers alternately smiled and cringed [...]

For most Americans, Christmas is a time of gathering with family, but for more and more Southern Baptists, Christmas is a time to bundle up and head over to Asia to share Christ with those who have not heard the name of Jesus.
One group of college students went to Taipei, Taiwan, last year during their [...]

When Jay Lincoln* was called to go out as a fisher of men**, he probably had no idea that he would end up casting his net in a place called Big Fish Village. I asked Jay to share his story of a divine appointment God arranged for him the day he arrived among a [...]