David Joannes
180SHARESShareTweetJoin 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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239SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List See this post on There Is Yet Hope. The story of how our daughter, Cara Liana, came to us. For the backstory, read Tragic Joy. “It’s fun to be a zombie.” I texted my friend, Jonathan. “Sleep while…
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143SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I have been chasing Lorna for 15 years. The moment I laid eyes on her in the old Hong Kong airport in 1997, I was love struck. There are a million details between the time when I met her…
read more116SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List A Wa woman with teeth stained from chewing betal nut Excerpt from David Joannes’s journal while traveling among unreached people groups and villages in Southwest China. Journal entry 12.06.1999 At 6:15pm last night our 3:pm bus decided to leave.…
read more64SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Excerpt from David Joannes’s journal while trekking traveling among unreached people groups and villages in Southwest China. Journal entry 12.05.1999 Woke up this morning at 6:15 to catch the 7:am bus to L*****g, but after arriving at the bus…
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