I am happy to be writing to you from our home in Nigeria. We were able to successfully finish up our last few meetings in the U.S. Then on October 14, we left our house at 1:00 a.m. to begin our worldwide journey back to Nigeria. We are gra [...]
We just had a great trip out to the Midwest. I was able to see family I hadn’t seen for a long time, in some cases, nearly five years. We enjoyed reporting to some of our supporting churches and also presenting our ministry to a few new chu [...]
Thank you to everyone who has prayed for us as we transitioned back to the U.S. for our first furlough. This has been Lydia’s longest time in the U.S. Even as young as she is, she has had her own forms of culture shock. The cold weather was [...]
Thank you to everyone who has been praying for us. For those who did not find out through our ministry Facebook page, at the beginning of March, Emily was in the hospital for about a week due to a very serious infection. This was compounded [...]
Happy New Year! I hope all of you had great Christmas and New Year’s celebrations. The Christiansen family definitely had a fun time, and we are grateful for the cards and well wishes we received from many of you. We had an exciting time r [...]
We hope you all are having a great time preparing for Christmas. Our second year on the mission field and we are still adjusting to 90 degrees in December. We’re grateful not to be freezing, but having a warm instead of white Christmas stil [...]
Some of you may remember that at the beginning of this year, I went to teach at a new Bible college in the northern part of Nigeria. I had the privilege to go there again and teach on Daniel and Revelation for about a week. Seeing all the s [...]
The highlight of September was, by far, holding our first National Ladies’ Training Conference, and God truly worked in so many ways! It would take too long to list every little thing that God did, but I want to give some of the main ones. [...]
We often call August in our ministry “SMITE Month.” August is when we have three weeklong SMITE Camps in three different regions of Nigeria. These camps have been greatly used by God to train young people to reach children for Christ and to [...]
Recently, Emma’s favorite song has been “Jesus Loves Me.” She’ll sing it in the car, while playing with her toys, while coloring, or while she’s doing anything really. So, hearing her little voice singing her own version of “Jesus Loves Me” [...]