TOGO: A land long held in Satan's domain. The home where ABWE missionaries held their first meetings in 1974 was only two lots away from a witch doctor's compound. Drums sounded out from his yard every weekend and a fresh, bloody, sacrificial chicken hung over the entrance. Two blocks away other witch doctors practiced their trade in the "Sacred Forest." Even today, animism, voodooism and sorcery with their mysterious and malign powers permeate society. Missionaries of the gospel live in the midst of evil and oppression... Read More.

For a number of years work and ministry teams have gone to Bogota, Colombia to assist the ABWE missionaries in constructing new buildings and repairing existing buildings. High Point Baptist Chapel, of Geigertown, PA, has sent six teams to Bogota in the past 18 years. Men and women with differing skills have been a tremendous help. In 1995 we purchased a theater building on the south side of Bogota. The $35,000 price was right, but the electrical installation was a mess and the entire structure from bathrooms to auditorium was going to need much work before the building could be used. In March, 1996, electricians, carpenters, painters, and helpers from Geigertown... Read More.

One o'clock in the morning. Elizabeth Bream, a teenager on a missions trip from Emmanuel Baptist Church in Mechanicsburg, PA, and Athena Fardig, a nurse arriving to serve on a short-term assignment at the Amazonas Baptist Hospital and I had just drifted off to sleep in our hammocks six hours into our boat trip down the Amazon River. Right on schedule, the Brazilian federal police and customs officers boarded the river boat, this time without the dogs they usually brought to sniff out drugs. I had an inkling of what was to come. We were carrying five boxes of medicines and four duffel bags of hospital supplies in addition to our suitcases... Read More.