The Pearl's have been involved heavily in missions since, well, since they were Michael Pearl and Debi Smith! This love for missions is a constant undercurrent in No Greater Joy, and this section has all the missions oriented articles.
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This news letter will go to the printer before Rebekah and Gabriel get home from Papua New Guinea. For us, it has been a matter of daily, nearly constant prayer. We know that our two children are in our Father’s hands. When they...
Let us forget about building ministries and get back to building the kingdom instead. We have the tools. The church has the money. And we clearly have the commission to do so. We just need the vision.
...one day, just when it seemed that God didn’t want me to be married any time in the next 20 years, I received an e-mail from my mom. She wrote about a young lady that she and my sisters had met who was absolutley phenomenal....
Have you ever been present when history was made–at that precise moment when decisions are made that will change lives forever? I have been...
Joshua takes young men on longer mission trips into the mountains of Ukraine each summer to distribute gospel literature. It’s not for sissies.
It was a balmy evening in March. The tree branches waved in the breeze and ducks swam in the nearby pond. My little brother and I skipped stones on the water while my parents strolled along the winding path. “Kelsie,” my dad...
From the time I was a baby, Dad and Mom taught us stories from the Bible. I remember us kids sitting on the floor as Dad went through the Old Testament, telling the stories of sin and judgment, of grace and sacrifice.
There are some people groups…even nations that until now have been unreached. The Bible tells us that before the second coming of Christ, “the gospel must first be published among all nations” (Mark 13:10)
We have a vision of animating the Good and Evil book, complete with the voices dramatized, and with music scoring and sound effects...missionaries can use it to carry the Bible story to people who know nothing of God or our Lord...