Tanzania

Article Missionary Life

Bloom Where You Are Planted . . . or Don’t

Rather than expecting our lives to flourish with external blooming, we can trust that God works within us to produce fruit in his timing.

Mar 2, 2023

Feature Missionary Life

Missions or Wanderlust?

We all need to be willing to ask ourselves what mundane obedience looks like before we ever attempt something big.

Oct 6, 2022

Article News & Announcements

Good Theology Equals Good Missions: A Review of Missions by the Book

Some think that reducing good missions down to good theology is overly simplistic. But that is the very kind of simplicity that refreshes a missionary's soul.

Jan 20, 2022

Article Bible & Theology

Advent Meditation: Focusing on Gratitude

Tanzania missionary Stephanie Boon reflects on the challenge of seeing holiday decadence and ministering to the poor.

Dec 9, 2021

Article Missionary Life

What It’s Like to Be a Missionary in Limbo

With their ministry future uncertain, a missionary and her family learn to trust in God’s will while waiting.

Mar 4, 2021

Article Missionary Life

A Mother’s Memoirs of Ministry

Sifa Threads has been serving the practical and spiritual needs of at-risk Tanzanian women since 2013.

Mar 1, 2021

Article Missionary Life

I Surrender Some

Submitting completely to God’s calling is not a one-time event, even for missionaries.

Sep 18, 2020

Feature Missionary Life

This Is America: A Returning Missionary’s Perspective

What’s most disturbing about returning from Africa isn’t just the consumerism in American culture, but the consumerism within the American church.

May 20, 2019

Feature Missionary Life

Counterfeit Confidence and the Christian Woman’s Identity

Missionary life reveals that the self-help approach to identity isn’t just misguided; it’s a false gospel.

May 8, 2019

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The Awkward Missionary ‘Middle’ Between Poverty and Wealth

Missionaries wrestle with guilt because of the poverty they see and envy because of the affluence back home, but God enables us to live content in the middle.

Jan 14, 2019