Lord, they have asked me to see one more patient. They really can not take care of him themselves. They think I have a pill for everything. They think I know what is wrong. The patient is a child: unwashed, underfed, unclothed, undesirable, unneeded, uneducated, unwanted, pathetic.
He is as unwilling to be seen by me as I am unwilling to see him.
I can see the crowded boat that bore them in; a peasant's vessel, filthy and fishy. Tattered clothes that serve as rags for spills, and handkerchiefs for sweat. No need to say, "Sir, we are very poor." This child has no diaper to catch his water that puddles on the floor. This family has no common sense to contain the misery that pools up around them... Read More.

Trumpets regulated the daily lives of the Israelites. References to trumpets are found in the Bible over 118 times. Numbers 1:45, 46 tells us that 600,000 men 20 years and older left Egypt; possibly two million Israelites marched through the wilderness. Without amplification, the trumpet, ram's horn, or shophar called God's people together. We find in Exodus 19:16,17 that the trumpet notified the people that God was in their midst... Read More.

Cambodia has one of the highest incidences of AIDS in the world. Immorality in shocking forms is big business in Phnom Penh. Poverty bombards us. These realities face the ABWE missionaries who have newly begun their work in Cambodia. The Moores write, "We are slowly working our way through the first grade reader in the Khmae language, but Jim's encouraging reminder is: We know 100% more than we did when... Read More.