A young woman, named Ruth, turned her heart away from her father during her teen years and become very bitter towards him. She became sexually involved with men and finally moved in with a young man and they lived together for several years without being married. They were involved in drugs, drinking, immoral activities, rebellion, occult practices and a lifestyle of spiritual darkness.

We do not get a second chance to parent our children. There is a lot of life still remaining for work and ministry after the children are grown and have left home. These are some of the things I've come to realize in this season of my life, and they help me to concentrate on being a mom – it is the most important job of my life.

My husband and I sat nervously in the waiting room, anticipating our names being called. I had phoned the hospital earlier, in order to get test results for what should have been a routine blood test in the fourth month of my pregnancy with our second child. Following an awkward silence, I had been requested to come in that afternoon.

Thirty eight years ago on April 24, 1972 a nineteen-year old teenage girl turned to my wife, Violet and handed her a three-day old baby boy. We were standing outside Fairview Southdale hospital in Edina, Minnesota where Jessica, her mother and a nurse carrying Jonathan, had just walked out of the hospital. They came to where we were standing, waiting beside two parked cars.

God has been calling me to come to Him, trust Him and live with Him for a long time, but I constantly refused His invitations. I was afraid to leave my securities, my future and my perspective. I did not believe that He has a good plan for me and my family, that He wants to integrate me into His perfect work. I was satisfied to financially provide for my family, I have a good job, all of us have been healthy. I was fine, but I missed something.

"My husband and I had been struggling in our marriage for more than a year. When we realized we needed help from outside we began to meet with a Family-Therapist, but we seemed to be stuck. I really struggled with being in this marriage, and I considered the YWAM-family camp our last way out. - A personal testimony.

James Wio knows better than many of us just how far God has brought him. Up until seven years ago, James was a well-known witchdoctor in Sudan. In 2001, James was sent with 2 other witchdoctors to ‘disorganize’ a Christian crusade taking place in Yei, Southern Sudan.