Author Archive for: Bethany

It was July, 1868—the warmest month of that year for Hankou, China. The streets were busy, the worn ground underfoot baking in the afternoon sun. Amongst the crowds could be seen a familiar face. The face belonged to Griffith John. He was well known in this area, having spent most of his missionary efforts in China calling Hankou his home. 

The church in the west has been in a slumber. Perhaps we have focussed more on encouraging the Church, rather than getting believers ready for battle.  Encouragement for encouragement’s sake achieves very little; the truth is people need something to fight for. There is a battle that needs to be fought, and each one of us carry our own responsibility

We recently received reports that the situation in Turkey is growing worse. In recent days, they have been hit by extremely heavy rains and flooding. This video comes from the city of Sanliurfa, just east of Gaziantep. It is within the region hit badly by the earthquake on February 6th. The rains are showing no signs of slowing, people are

One of our most popular products in the BTJ store is our BTJ SMUGGLERS HAT, so much so, that it has been sold out for several months! Now, it’s back. The BTJ smugglers hat is an exclusive BTJ item that has four secret pockets inside for stashing cash, ID, credit cards, or anything else you can think of. This is

It has been almost one month since the devastating earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on February 6th. As news cycles change and reports slow down, there are still many working on the ground dealing with the very real consequences of the tragedy. Homes are destroyed, family members have been lost, and people are dealing with injuries from both the earthquake

MESQUITE, Texas — “All the things I’ve learned, I’ve had to relearn them again from the persecuted church.” That’s what Eugene Bach, who has a doctoral degree, told listeners at the Dallas-area Voices of the Persecuted Church Conference in late October. Bach, who goes by a pseudonym because of his ongoing work in China, has authored or co-authored over a dozen books, including two from

MESQUITE, Texas — Naghmeh Panahi immigrated to America with her family as a young Muslim girl and began following Jesus at age 9, to the horror of her parents. (They later became Christians as well through reading the same Bible they’d taken away from her.) Panahi would return to Iran as an adult. At the Voices of the Persecuted Church Conference near

MESQUITE, Texas — “If I don’t bow down, will I die?” Esther Chang, speaking through a translator, relayed what her thoughts had been as North Korean government officials brought her to a statue of a North Korean leader to bow before it. The Chinese missionary to North Korea and six other Christians from around the world spoke to a group

MESQUITE, Texas — “You have to give forth great light in this time,” Brother Yun, a man who says he miraculously walked out of a maximum-security prison in China, told The Stream in an interview at the Voices of the Persecuted Church conference. Several hundred people from around the nation and the world filled a meeting room near Dallas, Texas, October 22-23

The world has watched as the war many hoped would never happen, happened overnight. There are reports of thousands of refugees leaving Ukraine into neighbouring nations to find safety for their families. Our BTJ office in Poland reported that at the writing of this article, more than 30,000 refugees have crossed the border into Poland to flee the conflict. Right