Dear Friends, We cannot overestimate the vital importance of investing in missionaries and mission fields with informed and intelligent prayer! Hudson Taylor said as much when he wrote this: “I turn the hearts of men through God by prayer.” Did … [Read more...]

Dear Friends, In First Century Palestine, the heavy-handed Roman regime taxed, stole, and enslaved the hardworking Jews! The regions of Galilee, especially, felt the harsh cruelness of their treatment.  But, it didn’t end there.  The greedy … [Read more...]

Dear Friends of GFF, I stepped before several hundred Tanzanians who were seated around the homestead of Jumanne’s closest relative.  It was his funeral, and, as village life goes in Tanzania, everyone stops to attend. “Jay” (for ease) was led … [Read more...]

Dear Friends of GFF, While Christ indeed taught us the importune nature of prayer in the “Prayerable of the Persistent Widow” (Luke 18), the lesson is more about the persistence of the petitioner himself rather than the necessity of a long … [Read more...]