Stories

Local Church, Global Mission? I vividly remember a moment in a sermon on Revelation 7 nearly thirty years ago when I was a ... Read More
Book Review: 1000 Cups of Tea: Gospel Fluency Across Cultures by Preston Fidler As a keen observer of the language learning experience and a missionary at heart, it was a ... Read More
Proficiency Scales: A Language Learning Roadmap Have you ever arrived at a destination and had to get to your hotel without any maps? Imagine not ... Read More
A Cow, a Chicken, and the God who forgives: Concept Exploration bridges to the Gospel Words do not translate neatly between languages. Very rarely is there one-to-one ... Read More
You CAN learn a language! An encouragement for people pondering cross-cultural ministry who doubt their ability to acquire a ... Read More
Language…Why Bother? Message and Para-Message 'Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to ... Read More
Finding my team Right now, in Melbourne, we are going through one of the longest and strictest Coronavirus ... Read More
The mission field needs older blokes There I was, as a young bloke on our family dairy farm in country NSW, looking up at this ... Read More
OARF COVID-19 Relief Programs THESE ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE OARF PROJECTS Many of our members are seeking to support people around ... Read More
Fiona's Story Fiona served with her family in Island South East Asia for close to 15 years. She and her husband ... Read More
Caught Between the Times 2020 was not meant to look like this. I was meant to be in Kenya by now. I was meant to be serving ... Read More
Serving God’s multi-ethnic household You are thousands of miles from your home country amongst people you really don’t know that well ... Read More