SALT LAKE CITY - A mission call rarely comes when it's convenient. Prior to the 2007 Poinsettia Bowl, University of Utah freshman Dallin Rogers was in a San Diego hotel room with his parents when he was overcome with the realization he needed to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after the season.
Roanoke Times reporter Beth Macy and a team of medical missionaries she's been following in Haiti fled rioting in the cholera-stricken northern region of the country Tuesday, passing through fiery roadblocks and machete-wielding thugs on the way. After spending a night locked down in a hospital in the small town of Limbe, the seven-member group hastily boarded a truck escorted by paid-off local gangsters who helped them talk their way through several roadblocks on their way the coastal town of Gonaives, where they were to spend the night.
Laughing and nodding, 150 former Lutheran missionaries shared stories of their adventures in Papua New Guinea this week at Wartburg Theological Seminary. They were celebrating 125 years of Lutheran missionary presence in the Pacific island nation with a two-day gathering at Wartburg.
Wolfgang Langhans, a Tokyo-based field director for missionaries, calls the week since the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan "the busiest and most stressful week of my life. But when those twin crises created a third - the threat of dangerous radiation leaks from a damaged nuclear plant - the balancing act between living out a missionary calling and keeping safe became particularly difficult.
Leading a mission trip and establishing bonds with a Mexican Presbyterian Church is what prompted one Washington Twp. family to travel to Michoacan, Mexico, to visit the Getzemani Iglesia Presbiteriana church. Dr. Jose Ulises Tor-res, his wife, Laura, and their three children spent more than a month in the Michoacan city of H. Zitacuaro, establishing ties to the congregation of Getzemani Iglesia. We are members of Southminster Presbyterian Church, and last year the church decided to do a mission trip," said Laura Tor-res, a member of the mission council. "I suggested Getzemani Iglesia, because it was started by American missionaries 104 years ago, and it has continued to grow over the years. They now have two smaller Presbyterian churches nearby that were started by members of Getzeman...
Think it's been hot here during the past week's heat wave? Imagine dealing with the heat with no air conditioning or electricity to run a fan. That's the circumstances missionary outreach workers Gail Grady and Steve Akers have endured as they spent the past week in Haiti visiting Holy Trinity Catholic Church's sister parish of St. Laurent. The pair departed July 21 for the impoverished village of Bassin Mangnant where the church is located. The village is approximately a 4 1/2-hour drive from Port-au-Prince. They are expected to return home Monday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The 10 U.S. missionaries charged with kidnapping for trying to take a busload of children out of Haiti should be released from jail while an investigation continues, a Haitian judge said Thursday, giving the Americans their best news since their arrests nearly two weeks ago. Judge Bernard Saint-Vil has the final word on whether to free the missionaries, though he gave the prosecutor-general the opportunity to raise objections. He said he was accepting defense attorneys' request to provisionally free the Americans while an investigation of the case continues.
ORLANDO, Fla. - In a remote island village of 1,200 people in Indonesia, a man hooks a notebook computer to a satellite connection and sends a Bible translation in his native Yawa language to a consultant sitting in her home office in Arlington, Texas. In a Nigerian city of a nearly a million people, a couple working with translation missionaries posts baby pictures on their Facebook page and talk by Skype to the wife's parents back in Deltona, Fla.
Leading a mission trip and establishing bonds with a Mexican Presbyterian Church is what prompted one Washington Twp. family to travel to Michoacan, Mexico, to visit the Getzemani Iglesia Presbiteriana church. Dr. Jose Ulises Tor-res, his wife, Laura, and their three children spent more than a month in the Michoacan city of H. Zitacuaro, establishing ties to the congregation of Getzemani Iglesia. We are members of Southminster Presbyterian Church, and last year the church decided to do a mission trip," said Laura Tor-res, a member of the mission council. "I suggested Getzemani Iglesia, because it was started by American missionaries 104 years ago, and it has continued to grow over the years. They now have two smaller Presbyterian churches nearby that were started by members of Getzeman...
PRINCETON - On March 11, right before the massive 9.0 earthquake hit Japan, Jessica Knight was holding her breath, but for an entirely different reason. Her infant son, Kenji, was having an MRI in preparation for an upcoming surgery at Matsumoto Children's Hospital located in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture of Japan. Kenji was out of the MRI and less than two minutes later, the hospital got hit pretty hard," Knight said by phone. "It is not near the sea so we didn't have to worry about the water.
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