I had been waiting my whole life for what my parents had promised me. Okay, so it was only a few months. But to my six-year-old brain, it was an eternity. When I finally got to cuddle the fulfillment of my parents’ promise—a fluffy puppy of my very… Read More

This issue of Record contains stories that start in dark places. Violence. Oppression. Persecution. Praise God, however, that they don’t stay there! When God’s Word enters the scene, a person’s whole perspective shifts. Read how you provided a 90-year-old with her first Bible. Hear one American soldier’s take on why… Read More

Ten years of illegal drug use had all but killed Petras*. “Because of drugs … my health was completely ruined. I saw no hope, no way of escape — just spiraling down and down toward my sure death,” says the resident of Lithuania. But God didn’t give up on Petras. Read More

With so few Christians living in Israel, Jacoba* wanted to be sure that her granddaughter knows Jesus. Christians make up less than two percent of Israel’s population, and even fewer are Hebrew-speaking Christians like Jacoba. Jacoba tries to encourage her granddaughter’s growing faith, but with few resources designed for children,… Read More

Yan* is not a minister. But for more than 10 years she has been ministering to people that the rest of the world seems to have forgotten. They are elderly, disabled, or sick. Some live alone. All are lonely. Yan explains, “It is difficult for the elderly, sick, and disabled… Read More

Alexander* doesn’t talk about what he did to land in prison in Vienna, Austria. But he is quick tell you that God is helping him survive. “At first, I considered my life messed up and I wanted revenge. But now I am calm,” says 44-year-old Alexander. According to Alexander, that… Read More

Bujar* doesn’t remember life without a Bible. The 9-year-old received his first Bible from the Bible Society when he was just 4 years old. By the time he was 6, he was reading on his own. “When I learned how to read, every night I would lie down on my… Read More

Praise God that the Arisi speakers in Ethiopia now have a New Testament in their own language! They belong to the Oromo ethnic group, but the existing Oromo Bible is in a different dialect than the one they speak and understand best. This new translation will provide strength for… Read More

Crash! The horrible sound of a car accident right outside her home in South America jarred Ruth* awake. She ran out to see the unthinkable. “I saw my little brother lying on the ground. I can still remember that day. He died in my arms.” Ruth was still grieving her… Read More

With all his siblings in gangs, it was almost a certainty that Raul*, now 11, would follow in their footsteps. “At 9 years old, I started doing drugs and got into a gang,” Raul says. “I stole. I got into street fights.” After being arrested and sent to a children’s… Read More