Author: Shalem John

Birth: 04-07-1870 Home Calling: 1965 Homeland: United States of America Place of Vision: Angola, Africa Mary Floyd Cushman was an American medical missionary who worked under great difficulties in the foreign mission field for more than 30 years. Born in a Christian family, she grew up to be a sympathetic woman with a burden to serve the people. She graduated from the Boston University School of Medicine in 1892 and practiced medicine in Farmington. There she was well recognized for her professional skills. However, her desire to serve the people in Africa was realized when the American Board of Commissioners…

Birth: 01-05-1816 Home Calling: 09-08-1864 Native Place: Shelburne, Massachusetts Country: United States of America Place of Vision: Iran When the people of Urmia in Persia were asked, “What kind of person is Fidelia Fisk?”, the most common answer to be heard was, “she was like Jesus!” Such was the testimony of Fidelia Fisk, one of the first unmarried woman missionaries from America to serve in Persia. As an intellectually gifted and devout child, Fidelia showed interest in spiritual things at an early age. She accepted Christ at the age of seventeen. After her graduation in 1842 from Mount Holyoke Seminary,…

A month into the government shutdown, The Community Hope Center began to notice different faces at its regular food distribution in Gaithersburg, Maryland. In an average month, the center serves around 4,000 households in partnership with the city. This month, people who hadn’t needed to visit its food pantry since the COVID-19 pandemic returned, and families who had never come for food assistance showed up for the first time. “We are seeing a lot of new people come in and different people from all walks of life,” said Sharon Camacho Meakes, executive director of the nonprofit, which is affiliated with…