If someone had told Nancy Potter* years ago that churches in Southeast Asia would start as a result of pregnant women learning to be healthy, she might have scoffed. 

One week after 7.8-magnitude earthquake, church picks up service right where they left off.

Most missionaries are NOT preachers. For instance, I’m a journalist. If you think that's “outside the box,” then you should see what today’s IMB missionaries do.

It's been a rough year. Nduri Isandap and her six children fended for themselves during one of the worst droughts in Kenya's history. 

The father-daughter duo stumbled into the camp after a walk through the dried-up African bush. They hoped to find relief from the worst famine to hit the Horn of Africa in 60 years.

Rajeevan's crime was fleeing a country during a brutal civil war and seeking asylum in Thailand, a country where he is considered illegal. Thai officials threw his entire family in detention. 

Mission-minded people are different. That’s it. Somehow they see the world from another perspective. The things they do are different from what other people usually do.

For days, the villagers took turns sitting by the road trying to get help. Hope died -- until two vehicles backed down a rocky path and unloaded more than 40 bags of rice.

Screams echo as people were pulled from their homes and savagely beaten. In chaos like this, it's difficult to differentiate one scream from another -- but I heard one and followed it. 

Shukuko Sasaki survived Japan's tsunami but her husband and the majority of the fishing village did not. One year later, she's looking for comfort from the nightmares. 

"Father, our country is in trouble. We pray for peace to come," an 11-year-old boy prays. "Protect us, Father. Teach people to love one another and not to fight anymore."

Miriam awoke from her Saturday nap on April 25 with a start. Since she was up, the elderly woman decided to start her daily noon prayer time 15 minutes early.

The contrast between youth and the elderly is drastic in this country. An entire middle generation is missing, creating the huge gap. HIV/AIDS wreaks its havoc in South Africa.