Beaten missionaries plan to return to Africa

"I'm not alive to stay at home and fossilize"

CALGARY, AB—A missionary couple who were brutally attacked at their Kenyan farm says fear will not stop them from returning to Africa—but they won’t go back to Kenya.

John and Eloise Bergen, missionaries with Kelowna-based Hope for the Nations, have emphasized that forgiveness has not only freed them from anger, it has given them courage to return to Africa and continue their work with orphans.

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Mother of missing woman says only faith sustains her

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MB—Bernice Catcheway hasn’t seen her in daughter in two-and-a-half months.

“The only thing sustaining me is my faith in God,” says the exhausted mother who is still working to find out what happened.

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Cash needed to address growing food woes

WINNIPEG, MB—When Heather Plett was in Bangladesh helping to distribute rice in the aftermath of Cyclone Sidr, an older man took the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) communications officer aside. “We appreciate the help we have received from you,” he told her earnestly, “but we need more. Our people are still hungry.”

The Winnipeg-based aid agency was already running a feeding program that provides Bangladeshi children with at least one nutritional meal a day.

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