David Joannes
352SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List by Todd Fisher My friend Dave is a modern day Robin Hood. As I sat down to write this last October, he was enduring a lonely 15 hour flight back home to his family in the Philippines. You see…
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291SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I, like Justin Long, often hear people alluding to thoughts like, “There are unreached people groups right here in Phoenix / Dallas / New York / [enter city here]. Why do I need to go to Africa or China?”…
read more128SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Blog by JP, Within Reach Global staff I have a friend whose mom works as one of the only doctors in what is basically an abortion clinic in a very poor area of the city. Not ago my friend…
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284SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I have spent some serious time on rural Chinese mountain tops, hours conversing with former headhunting tribes, ethnic minorities and unreached people groups. Real life people kind of ministry, where life rubs off onto life, and handshakes and hugs…
read more180SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Every time I read about what happened today in missions history, it excites me to see the bigger picture, the overall narrative of what God has been doing to reach every nation. God has called simple men and women…
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133SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List The thought of impacting families is an integral facet of missions, but sadly so often overlooked. Admittedly, in the past even by Within Reach Global. For years we trekked through rural mountain villages in China, seeking hungry hearts to…
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187SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List One year ago today, at just about this hour—miracle of miracles—after nine years of marriage, many of which were riddled with missionary sickness and medical procedures and infertility and stage four Endometriosis and my wife’s surgery, with a sort…
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228SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List See the Ako Ay Pilipino, Noon at Ngayon coffee table book online. David & Lorna Joannes, leading the Ako Ay Pilipino team to create the coffee table book. Ako Ay Pilipino is Tagalog for I Am Filipino. Ako Ay…
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157SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List “More persecution, more growth. That is the history of the Church.” Pastor Samuel Lamb, a Chinese Christian who was imprisoned for his faith for 21 years, grins with a toothy smile as he let’s you in on the reality…
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289SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List There is a sweet, gray-haired 70 year old woman with a pretty smile named Elena on the corner of Aurora Blvd. and General Aguinaldo Ave. I see her nearly every day. She travels ten miles from her slum home…
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