Testimonies
Answering God’s Call

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.—Psalm 143:8 (NIV)

“Even though I had wanted to be a missionary all my childhood, during college I decided it was not practical. According to the world’s standard, I was supposed to specialize in a field and find a successful job.”

Read more about how God called Audrey Boone to serve in Vernacular Media Services, first on the Logos Hope ship, and later in Niger, Africa.

“At first, the idea of going to another country scared me. I was scared of lots of things, including flying and snakes. So I decided that if God wanted me to be a missionary, I would have to work in the United States. At one point my parents were thinking of taking an assignment in the former Zaire. I told them I wouldn’t go, that I would never go to Africa, and I was completely serious.”

Read more about how God called Heather Filyes to serve God in Africa in language survey.

“During my last surgery, while doctors tried to figure out what was going on, I sat in intensive care for two weeks. … For the first time ever—as great job options in media-broadcast slipped by me because I couldn’t even make it to a second interview, much less show up to start a job—I questioned God. I asked for, almost demanded, answers for what He was doing.”

Read more on how God called Karen Keeport to serve God through Vernacular Media Services, giving the gospel to oral communicators.

Radio? Electronics? On the mission field? I wonder who repairs their equipment? There I was, sitting in the first row getting more and more interested, when this guy leans over the pulpit, points his finger down at me and says, “What we need in Peru right now is an electronics technician to repair those radios.”

Oh, no, I said to myself as I slid down in my seat and trembled. Who told him I was here?

Read more about how God called Al and Barbara Shannon to Peru.