Jungle Adventures in the countries of the world.
Spiritual warfare is very real. The demonic is very real. Alemu, an evangelist here in Ethiopia, experienced spiritual warfare in an amazing way. It all happened when he went to a region of Western Ethiopia to share the gospel amongst a Muslim tribe. He was staying in one small village, but he had an opportunity…
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Abera is an amazing man with an amazing wife. I met them here in Ethiopia. They are national evangelists and missionaries. Abera is hard to miss. He has only one eye but has big smile. As I was teaching I talked about persecution and his wife signaled to me that Abera had been beaten for…
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Sometimes as I teach I am intimidated by the faith or experience of my students. Often, especially in academic circles, you have two kinds of students: Those who know nothing and are taking the classes because it is all new to them, or those who are incredibly experienced, but are taking the class because they…
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Pinch! It’s real. I am living a dream! I am sitting on the balcony of a guest cabin of the Kale Heywert School of Missions campus in Durame, Ethiopia. I arrived last night after three days of traveling from Cambodia. I had to make six plane connections and one six-hour drive in a small Toyota. …
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Today I spent seven hours on the phone to three pastors in Nepal. They had been stopped by an airline from flying and sent back to Nepal. I knew too well what the problem was: they were poor Nepalese from the mountains traveling outside their mountains into the bigger world. You may wonder, ‘what could…
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This week I have been teaching on the subject of deliverance at the Ethiopia Kale Heywert School of Missions. It is located in Southern Ethiopia about six long bumpy hours from the capital Addis Ababa. In the first hour after arriving in Ethiopia I saw a picture of a tall man and enquired who he was. …
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Travel Tuesdays: Flying to Lalibela, Ethiopia Home to ancient churches carved from the mountains. I am sure glad I was not on the older model! (Sitting outside the Addis Ababa Terminal)
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NAGOYA, Japan – The United Nations Environment Programme is currently meetings in Japan. At the start of the meeting their objective is to discuss ways to save many disappearing species on the Earth. “The world cannot afford to allow nature’s riches to disappear”, the United Nations said on Monday at the start of a major…
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Protestant missionaries went centuries ago to Ethiopia, but it was not until the 1920’s that they tried to establish a larger and permanent presence there. The missionaries bought large tracts of land (100-1000 acres) to use as mission stations. On these stations they would produce crops to fund their activities, build Bible schools, primary schools and medical clinics to meet the needs of the local people and provide a base to share the gospel from and raise their own families.
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In Ethiopia I had the great honor of meeting a group of believers who lived in a very remote part of the country. There was no road to their village, only a random path marked by the odd African shade tree. When the pastor was directing me there, he tried to talk to me in his broken English. He explained that it takes him four hours to walk to the village. This village used to be fully Muslim. He shared with me that this church “was in the shadows”.
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