David Joannes
258SHARESShareTweetJoin 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…
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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…
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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…
read more111SHARESShareTweetJoin 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…
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…
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131SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I can almost hear the guttural crackle of passion in Jesus’s voice as he says, “Open your eyes and take a good look at what’s right in front of…
read more107SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List How about a little turkey with chopsticks! Had Jesus been born in post Mayflower America, there’s no doubt he would have been hosting a turkey party with a group…
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66SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Chapter 4, Fragile, excerpt from The Memories I Made Up by David Joannes All too often we forget the stark fragility of life. * * * Traffic is stopped…
read more193SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Translated from an email sent by Brother Hu, Within Reach Global local missionary. These are the some of the daily ministry outreach our local missionaries are doing at…
read more171SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Blog by PN, Within Reach Global intern. There has been a huge increase in students coming to our English Corners at The Hub the last couple of months.…
read more64SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Blog by Sister Li, Within Reach Global local missionary. This is an update from our persecuted local missionaries at The Edge outreach center near Myanmar. Update from our persecuted…
read more193SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Blog by WL, Within Reach Global staff. “Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.” – 2…
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130SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Here are 3 videos I made for the Ako Ay Pilipino Movement that my wife and I started a couple years back. Enjoy! 130SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List
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233SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Giovanni carried my camera bag so that the weight did not rest on my degenerated disc. My tripod was slung around my shoulder as I trudged along the muddy…
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188SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” ~King David September has arrived in Manila, Philippines, and I am…
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64SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Original blog from Elias Popa, Within Reach Global intern: The Seasoned Explorer » Walk The Line. After almost 11 hours ride, we finally made it to the tiny village on the top…
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64SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List He is an unlikely hero brimming with unassuming nobility. But the reality is, if you were to walk past him on a crowded Chinese sidewalk, you might not recognize…
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284SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I felt like this was something you really needed to know… by BILL CHAPPELL via On Chinese Beaches, The Face-Kini Is In Fashion : The Two-Way : NPR. Chinese beachgoers…
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153SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List It was a brief transaction, simple, I thought, but much bigger than I may have realized. A glimpse. A moment. I was on my way to the grocery store…
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156SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List This is a blog originally published by my wife, Lorna, in December, 2011. Her writing is always so touching and inspiring because she writes from a deep place of…
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204SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List My little girl, due in December 2012, is going to be a Third Culture Kid (TCK). She will have traveled around the world before she’s 2. She will speak…
read more109SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Original blog from Elias Popa, Within Reach Global intern: The Seasoned Explorer » Noodles and Jesus. I was sitting there with Brother C, the man I told you about in…
read more765SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I don’t mean to be rude, but I have to be honest: the odds are, mathematically, stacked against you. THE 10/40 WINDOW The 10/40 Window is home to 6,921…
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235SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List After church planting among unreached people groups in to China’s Southwest interior for nearly 15 years, people often come to me for missions advice by asking, “How can I…
read more128SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Nearly two weeks of monsoon rains across Metro Manila and 16 surrounding provinces have left 850,000 people displaced in the Philippines. About 60% of Manila and nearby provinces are…
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192SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List There are so many layers of poverty, from the flaky outer shell to the sweetish center. But like an onion, the whole thing will make you cry. As a…
read more128SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List As Within Reach Global is expanding its leadership base, it is a huge favor and blessing to send our local missionaries to the Philippines for an intensive leadership training.…
read more168SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I recently saw a time lapse shot from NASA satellites. A pause. I wonder if you are able to pinpoint a single infinitismal whisper wafting through the air as…
read more173SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List This post is from my amazing wife, Lorna. See the original post on thereisyethope.com. Follow her on twitter @lornajoannes. Enjoy! Sitting at our 40 square meter apartment in…
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489SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I moved to Kunming, when I was 18 years old. I bought a one way ticket from America, immersed myself in the culture and language of China, and traversed…
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