When the Verwey family of Japan Missions visited rural South Africa in 1971 they would have had no idea that a 6-year-old ponytailed girl might be stirred for world missions through their stories and slides.
The Holy Spirit stirred me for missions even at that tender age. Weekly mission-focused Bible clubs continued to nurture the seed already sown, while devoted Christian parents would visit mission stations while we were on holidays. God’s call to the unreached in my first year as university student therefore came as no surprise.
The challenge of Paul Smith “Why should anybody hear the Gospel...