by Sarah Stone | Aug 13, 2014 | News
A child with Down’s syndrome was allegedly abandoned by his Australian parents and left in the care of his surrogate mother in Thailand. The child’s story has been making international headlines. Yet, tragically abandoned babies and hopeless futures for...
by Sarah Stone | Jun 26, 2014 | Opinion
When mission workers are caught in a country facing a crisis, there are three options: evacuate, relocate to a safer part of the country or hibernate in a safe place until the conflict comes to an end. Louise Brown and her family chose hibernation. She and her...
by Sarah Stone | Jun 25, 2014 | Opinion
“We were lying on the bedroom floor under a mattress,” says Gill Jones, former BMS World Mission worker in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “There was a sniper holed up on the corner of the compound. We could see all the soldiers fighting. Mortar...
by Sarah Stone | Apr 21, 2014 | Opinion
I’m driving through Kolkata, West Bengal, in a yellow bus. Motorbikes, three-wheeled auto rickshaws, pedestrians, taxis and cars weave in and out of each other and us. Everyone hoots, it’s noisy – to an outsider, chaotic – but it seems to work. There were...
by Sarah Stone | Dec 17, 2013 | Opinion
Saru woke up unable to move her legs; she’d been unconscious for a week. She had no recollection of her family taking her to the hospital in Lucknow, India, of the doctors saying she would die or of her journey home to western Nepal. As she woke, her family told...
