by Paige Deur | Jan 19, 2026 | Latest News, Stories
“You go in thinking you’re meeting criminals, but you walk out having met friends.” For Maartje, mission work has been a lifelong calling. Born in the Netherlands, she has been passionate about outreach since her youth. In 1982, she moved to South Africa to serve in...
by Paige Deur | Jan 12, 2026 | Latest News, Stories
Conrad once believed his life was defined by failure. “There was a time I felt like I had failed at everything,” he said. After years of carrying deep regret, he struggled to see any good in himself or his life. But over time, and through time in God’s Word and...
by Doug Cupery | Jan 5, 2026 | Latest News, Stories
It was close to the time I expected my wife Hendrina to be home from visiting her mother when my phone started ringing and her name popped up on the screen. When I answered, she was distraught and crying. A car had run a stop sign at high speed and nearly hit her....
by Paige Deur | Dec 29, 2025 | Latest News, Stories
Moses grew up in deep poverty in Kenya. When his parents separated, his father—an alcoholic—kept the children, and Moses, just a child himself, became responsible for his younger siblings. With little support and no steady income, he dropped out of school in sixth...
by Rev. Rensselaer Owen (“Ren”) Broekhuizen | Dec 18, 2025 | Latest News, Stories
In the early ’70s, I used to visit the county jail. There were about a hundred men incarcerated. Times were different then, and the warden let me roam freely. One Christmas, our youth group went to local shoe stores and collected empty boxes. We wrapped them in...
by Paige Deur | Dec 15, 2025 | Latest News, Stories
Alfonso still remembers the moment that changed everything. “I was having a hard time wrestling with my guilt and shame when I saw someone had left one of the ‘invite someone to join’ cards on an empty bookshelf that inmates use to place material they are willing to...
