dventist Frontier Missions has a single-minded focus: sending missionaries to reach the unreached with the everlasting gospel. Here in Adventist Frontiers magazine, their remarkable stories unfold month by month.

But woven through all their stories is another much bigger story—a story less about missionaries and more about God Himself. True, God works hand-in-hand with our missionaries, but He is also hard at work where they are not. His Spirit parachutes deep into enemy-held territory and secures beachheads far in advance of their arrival—sometimes decades ahead.

Dale Goodson (p. 18) recently travelled up the Sepik River deep into the heart of the northern interior of Papua New Guinea. In Ama, a remote village with no official Adventist contact since the 1960s, he hoped to find fertile ground for a new AFM project. Instead of fertile ground, he found a field ready for harvest. There stood a recently built Adventist church, cobbled together with scrap iron, leaves and assorted bush materials. A faithful group met there regularly, reading from a Bible and waiting for a missionary to arrive.

Isaiah 45:2, 3: “I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.”