My son likes to wear a T-shirt that reads “everyday hero.” Many people aspire to be leaders, and we usually aspire to be the kind of leader exemplified by their heroes. As a missions executive, my hero is Betsy Stockton, the first single Protestant female missionary from America. She was an African American born a slave, who aspired to be a missionary at a time when it was socially impossible. Finally in 1823, the American Board agreed to send her to Maui if she went as a dom

God is faithful and at work! This truth still applies in difficult times! If we have our feet deep in the soil of ministry and leadership, then we can’t avoid the experience of hardship. I love to read biographies of missionaries or go to encouraging conferences, where people share the wonderful things that God is doing – of course, often through them. Yes, I do get inspiration from their lives! Yet sometimes it is also frustrating. Most of the time I only hear their success