As 2012 draws to a close, we’re looking back at some key ministry highlights. Here’s a collection of stories pulled from videos, the blog, and a radio broadcast.
• In March, the MAF team in Haiti celebrated 25 years of service, and we had a special Haiti campaign, Catalyst for Change.
• MAF’s videographer visited our Africa […]
Each year as potential MAF missionaries go through the candidate program, we find that the reasons they want to join MAF are as diverse as the backgrounds of the people themselves. Here are a few reasons MAF staff members gave as to why they chose to pursue missions with us:
Conrad & Heidi Hertzler (Mozambique) chose […]
I had this great idea, one that would put smiles on all their faces, one that would communicate love and generosity. They’d look at me and think how kind I was to give them something so special, something I assumed they very rarely got to taste: apples! Apples don’t grow in most of Mozambique but […]
With the unclear words of a two-year-old, Anna pointed to my plate and said: “That’s kah-t-ch. It’s not pah-t-ch, it’s kah-t-ch.” I looked down at my plate, trying desperately to figure out what she was saying. All I could see was some lasagna, and in English or Norwegian, nothing even remotely related to either kah-t-ch […]
It’s been 20 years since MAF introduced its current logo … the burgundy-and-gray emblem with the dove. Since that time…
The Internet came into our lives
MAF installed its first satellite communication link
Zaire became the DRC (again)
MAF began its Mali well-digging project
The MAF-Learning Technologies division was created
MAF began and completed Operation ACCESS! —a major research project that […]
There are often two sides to a situation. A strength and a weakness. A positive and a negative. So I have found it to be with house workers.
Growing up in a household of four girls, in a time and place where servants were unheard of, as well as dishwashers and dryers, we all learned the […]