Ways to use these stories
These stories will help your church understand how their giving is used to support missionaries on the field.
Stories from Africa and the Middle East

Fastest office on four wheels

For Adults: Like a doctor doing rounds, Judy Miller makes hut calls in West Africa. See what $75 can do.

40-day field trip

For Adults: Missionaries training in sub-Saharan Africa see life as their laboratory. See what $2,312 can do.

Telling the whole town

For Students: Hot days and bugs outnumbered believers in Niger, but help was on the way. See what $6 can do.

Thinking inside the box

For Children: A recycled shipping container becomes a schoolroom in Kenya. See what $20 can do.

Happy campers

For Children: Songs and games turn an island vacation spot into Vacation Bible School. See what $4.71 can do.

Birds of a feather

For Children: Ostriches and outreach help struggling farmers in South Africa. See what 8 cents can do.

2008 Stories from Africa and the Middle East

See more stories in our 2008 archive.

Ways to use these stories

  • Share them with the Children's, Student's, Adult and Missions Leaders in your church. Search by age group to find age appropriate stories, videos, photos and bulletin inserts. Use them during Sunday School, missions group meetings, home Bible study meetings or whenever you talk about missions.
  • Use them as a part of sermons or missions emphasis.
  • Use the EXTRA to involve your church in the stories, like the recycling activity for children included with the Thinking inside the box story.
  • Set a Lottie Moon giving goal based on a missionary dollar need featured in one of the stories. For small dollar items, consider increasing your giving based on multiple units of an item used by a missionary (for example, 8 hours on the mission field x $4.71/hour = $37.68). Display your giving goal with a bulletin insert of the story, plus its photos and map. Track giving toward your goal each week and include that as part of your display. Register your church's offering goal.
  • Read about all the ways you can get personally involved with international missions in this year's Missions Leader's Guide or Pastor's Guide.