Reflections

Health promoters graduate just at the right time
In the third Advent devotion offered by global missionaries, Nan McCurdy and Miguel Mairena write on their service in Puebla, Mexico.
Sent by Jesus
This second missionary devotion preparing the way for Advent and the coming of Christ into the world is written by a missionary couple, J. and T. Park.
Jesus is our living hope! 
First in a missionary Advent devotion series, Fatuma Kutela, an agricultural technician missionary from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, works with the West Angola Episcopal Area in Luanda, Angola.
A hard-earned degree made possible by a World Communion Scholarship
Martha Fatoma, a 2021 graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Africa University, has worked in her field for 20 years. A World Communion Scholarship helped her attain a degree as well as a higher level of understanding and professionalism, which she now passes on to the nurses she supervises.
Walking with Jesus
A devotion for Palm Sunday by Anna Troy
Servant leadership
A devotion for Maundy Thursday by Yorleni Jiménez Rojas
Jesus and Mary Magdalene at the tomb
A devotion for Easter Sunday by Alison Ho Yan Lee
Christmas in Such a Time as This
How do we draw strength from Christmas this year for the work of God’s mission in the world? Roland Fernandes, general secretary of Global Ministries, shares four lessons.
Love and compassion opens us to God’s call
Missionary Charles Mulemena in Belize reflects on the need to be flexible and compassionate when God rewrites his best-laid plans and calls him to consider new possibilities.
Let love lead
Global Mission Fellow Lily Maijama’a describes his transformation as he decided to let love lead him out of COVID-19 despair and into God’s purpose.
Peace in the darkest valley
Dr. Mark Zimmerman reflects on the story of Hari, a COVID-19 patient he treated at Patan, Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.
There is hope
The Rev. Brooke Atchley, a Church and Community Worker in Rosedale, Virginia, accompanies her rural community through the challenges and shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic.