Ever since she first learned about human trafficking at a Sara Groves concert, Tamara Powers had studied and researched the issue. Then on the World Race, last month, she got to encounter it first hand in Cambodia: A single day of my little life. Such drastic things. Words really don’t flow well over this event.   Holding hands with a young girl, HIV positive, tuberculosis, and pregnant. Only knowing how to sell her body. watching a man enter a tiny building and forcing my brain to not picture what will happen. Looking into the eyes of teenagers knowing what all the research...

What if you spent next Christmas overseas… in the mission field?   What if, instead of exchanging gifts with family and friends, you shared the hope of Christ with those who have never heard the gospel?   What if?   Have you ever thought of spending Christmas in the mission field?   Watch the following video and consider how next Christmas could be different — whether you’re in Haiti, Kenya, or Cambodia.   If you’re thinking about spending next Christmas in the mission field and you’re 21-35 years old, consider going on the World Race....

In October, 22 year old Emily Tuttle of Duluth, Ga. was in training in the rural northern part of her home state for the World Race.  She, along with over a hundred other young-adults, begins her trip in January in Haiti, then will minister in South America, Southeast Asia and conclude in East Africa. But Tuttle already grew up with the world at her doorstep; her family lived in a neighborhood populated primarily by recent immigrants.  Whereas her classmates from her Christian school were mostly white, her friends and neighbors were diverse not only in culture and ethnicity...

When I joined a study abroad program in college, I left America and never looked back. I donned the Spanish name “Pepe”, and stayed out at flamenco bars until sunrise. I ate every type of chorizo I could find. I went on weekend trips to Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, and Rome. I started drinking coffee. I was a Spaniard through and through.   I never struggled with culture shock. I acclimated immediately. What I never expected, however, was the jolting experience I would have when returning to my own native culture. In the book Culture Shock! (recommended reading for all students...

My father, Douglas Drevets, graduated from Wheaton College.  His freshman year of college he reconnected with an old friend from middle school summer camp, Seth Barnes. They quickly became fast friends.  During their stay on campus, along with a motley crew of companions, they staged a noble and prolonged effort to liven the other students’ quality of life with colorful antics such as disrupting chapel, covering toilet seats with plastic wrap (my dad’s idea), and engaging in other acts of public menace. They eventually graduated, were employed at various places,...

Cora Healey traveled to the Philippines this summer, with AIM’s Ambassador program.  They got the opportunity to work in slums of Manila and she shares some of her experience below. Our team had the opportunity to go with Cebu City Alliance Church (CCAC) to feed and teach a Bible story to a group of children in a village in the city. Once we were done teaching, the kids lined up to be served food and I stood off to the side to watch.   There was a little girl kneeling down in the dirt next to me and I knelt down and attempted to ask her what her name was. During...