Freer & Freer

Christie says the “bad stuff” started when she was 3. At age 5, Christie was adopted. She remembers the shocking words her biological father spoke in the courtroom: “I don’t want ’em … Take my name off the birth certificate.” At 15, Christie sought relief by turning to destructive… Read More

God Broke into Prison

You’re on a thin mat on the red dirt of an open room. The air is stagnant and reminds you of your unmoving life here. Men lie to the right and left of you. You haven’t had space to yourself for years. Everyone here is always angry or sad,… Read More

What One Bible Can Do

He was just 18 years old. Barely out of high school, a young Chris Runnells decided to join the Army as an airborne infantryman. “I wanted to serve my country as my grandfather had done in Korea,” he remembers. But Chris’s view of himself, the world, and God was… Read More

Changing Lives with God’s Word

And thanks to the support of people like you, we have shared God’s Word with those who need it most for more than 200 years. Here are the stories of a few people who have encountered God through the pages of his Word: In China, a Widow Finds… Read More

Portraits of Healing

“If my troubles and griefs were weighed on scales, they would weigh more than the sands of the sea.” Job 6:1-2 Bernadette Mukamana was silent for more than two years. When she lost her husband, she shut down. Overwhelmed with grief, she separated… Read More

The Scars of Love

Elizabeth’s hands are mangled and gnarled. Six of her fingers are gone. A deep scar cuts across the back of her head. Her body is riddled with reminders of the day she was nearly murdered—for showing love. Elizabeth suffered, just like Jesus. One day, while gathering vegetables from her… Read More

Rising from the Ashes

When Joyce Zaninka arrived at Uganda’s Nakivale refugee camp, she kept her eyes fixed on the dusty orange ground. She did not greet anyone. She did not ask how the other refugees were feeling or why they had fled to Uganda for safety. She had already experienced enough sorrow… Read More

Hearing, Reading and Believing

Nanaka lives in a community bound to the traditions of his ancestors. In his village, nestled among towering mountains in northern Tanzania, men marry multiple wives. Children work instead of attending school. But in the past year, this way of life has begun to change. It all started when Nanaka… Read More

A New Chapter for the Bible in Mongolia

Growing up in Mongolia, Bayar Garam didn’t know a single Christian. As a closed communist country, the Mongolian government controlled everything from religion to the press. “We were exactly like North Korea is today,” explains Garam. That all changed in 1991. Communist reign in Mongolia ended, and Christian missionaries… Read More

Turning the Tide

What did I do?” U.S. Navy Chaplain Anthony Reilly* was nervous, and rightfully so. It wasn’t every day that he got summoned into the office of a high-ranking Navy official. Besides, this particular officer had a reputation that preceded him. Closed-door meetings typically involved heavy doses of screaming and… Read More