Missions

For three and a half hours our plane passed over the Sahara desert. I was thrilled: though I’d camped on the edge of the Sahara in Senegal ten years earlier, I’d never seen the desert’s depths. Now, I didn’t see merely its depths. I saw its entirety. Shining, dark expanses that looked like lakes spread …

If you’ve spent some time on my blog, you will have noticed my passion for missions. Where did this passion come from? One of the first books I ever read as a Christian, Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret, certainly threw gas on the fire. But what ignited that fire was not a book, but my own …