American Missionary Fellowship

Following each story, I would pick up my Bible to read to him what God says about rainbows and about Christ.  He was totally unreceptive.  Finally, with a tone of slight irritation, he said, “Can’t you tell me from memory about Jesus Christ?” 

From sunrise to sunset, Ramiro walked in fear that part of the flock would vanish over some distant ridge. He told me he was totally exhausted and the blisters on his feet had started bleeding days ago with no time to heal.

At the beginning of this school year, George was not enrolled in our Bible club.  It was a bittersweet realization – sweet for the relative calmness of the class but bitter because we knew he needed to hear the Gospel just as much as the others. 

A timeline from one AMF ministry shows how God can use a small ministry started by a faithful missionary to increase His kingdom:

The early days of the American Sunday School Union (the organization that became AMF) were on our minds as we arrived at the Salish Language Project on the Colville Reservation. The ASSU helped people learn to read English by using God’s Word as the text. Now we would see if some who were trying to save their own tribal identity from extinction would be open to translating Bible verses into their native language. We brought with us copies of the New Testament in the New Life Bible translation, designed to respond to tribal culture.