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Once upon a time, I took trip to do some ministry work in an economically challenged developing world country. While there I met another man on mission named Brian Winzenried. Brian shared that he made regular visits to the land where I was visiting and ... Read More

Travelling to another country, living with and proclaiming the Gospel to unfamiliar people can be scary and difficult but usually purpose-filled. I had the privilege this past summer to be the Project Director to an SCSC team to Jamaica, which was the result of the ... Read More

I was struck by something on the roadway as I was driving back from dropping off my wife, Beth, so she could participate as a project director at Summer Christian Service Corp training this past June. I was not hit by a deer, though I ... Read More

by Steve Osborn, Pastor SDB Church, Boulder, CO Pastor Dave Stall told me, “One of the most important things in visiting Ethiopia is to be flexible.” Boy, was he ever right! We had plans — and good ones. But God had better ones. Our plan ... Read More

07/06/2016 Our 2016 General Conference President, Dr. Ken Chroniger has set a theme of Faith, Family, andEducation.  As you may have noted, the Missionary Society has been receiving and helping respond to many in our Family of Faith asking for help with their need for ... Read More

06/12/2014 SDBs have always been a missions minded people. In 1664 Stephen Mumford migrated to Newport, RI, from England and was instrumental in the start of the 1st SDB Church in the US. In the 1700s the number of SDB churches multiplied and at the ... Read More

06/06/2016           I will not soon forget the night in Mozambique I was driving down a roadway and the highway disappeared. It was April of 2016 and we had been visiting African SDB churches that day in the Milange District within ... Read More

05/31/2016 In June of 2015 I had the privilege of being part of a missions trip to Kenya. I want to share with you God’s good hand in this so that you may rejoice in what He is doing in this world; reflect on what ... Read More

05/16/2016 A couple weeks ago I was getting my hair cut at our downtown barbershop in Westerly, RI. I had opted for my usual barber and was having one of our normal conversations about travel, missions, and following Jesus in different cultures. Suddenly, the barber ... Read More

05/09/2016 Many years ago, Audrey and Menzo Fuller, former Seventh Day Baptist missionaries to Africa, inspired me to dedicate my retirement years to missionary work. So it was with both humility and excitement that I was privileged to participate in Pastor Steven James’s mission trip ... Read More