Jim Bennett

In the early 1990s, I was invited to teach an “Approaches to Reaching Muslims” seminar in Abu Dhabi. During one of the breaks, someone introduced me to an elderly Canadian nurse with an intriguing description: “She knows everything about Abu Dhabi.” As I listened to her story, I soon discovered why. What she shared with me remains one of the most inspiring missionary stories I have ever heard. Her journey began when she was only 16 years old. She told the elders of her church that she...

Hindu man sitting on ledge in a public area What would it take for you to go to the very people you once hated? For Rahul Pal and his future wife, Suhita, the answer was simple—but not easy. It required complete surrender to the call of God. In the late 1990s, Rahul Pal was a student at Southern Asia Bible College (SABC) in Bangalore, India. Rahul’s grandfather had been a practicing Hindu and had passed his religion on to his grandson. Yet, in God’s providence, Christian neighbors encouraged...

There are moments in life that stay with you forever — moments so intense, so spiritually weighty, that even decades later they still feel close enough to touch. For me, one of those moments came in 1995 when I found myself face-to-face with one of the most feared terrorists in the world!