
Continuing through Crises in Haiti
A decade of turmoil in Haiti. –NY Times
Haiti has declared a “state-of-siege.” –CNN
Criminal violence escalated . . . including attacks on police and arson on civilian homes. –CNN
Armed gangs control many streets and…

The Legacy of Early SLM Missionaries in Peru: Frontline Testimonies
By Ron Barnes
Rubén Quispe Vásquez – Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Cusco
It was February 1983. I was a teenager, already born-again, discipled with Source of Light lessons. I was very active in the church and ready to do everything…

How Far Will It go?
An Upgrade in Printing
Ron Barnes
For nearly seventy years now, God has had Source of Light International deeply vested in developing and distributing evangelistic and discipleship materials. We have followed the Lord’s leading in this,…

Thoughts Established, New Works Committed… to New SLM Courses
By Ron Barnes
Source of Light has been blessed with resources that God had provided from within as well as from partner ministries. For decades we have created, reproduced, and translated these materials and they have been used by God to…

Open Doors in Zambia
By Ben Doomy
I got to witness the faithfulness of God, firsthand, in Africa. A missionary who was not with Source of Light (who we will call John) had been using SLM materials for over twenty years. John’s mission began in Kenya where he…

Commit Thy Works Unto the Lord
A letter from the Editor - Ron Barnes
“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” This is a line from a poem entitled, To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with a Plough, written by Robert Burns.
I’ve done them all:…

Editor’s Article
A letter from the Editor - Ron Barnes
In the year of Source of Light’s 70th anniversary, we have been celebrating God’s goodness. He has taken this little ministry from Madison, Georgia, started in the second floor of a building right…

When Did We See You…
A letter from the Editor - Ron Barnes
Returning from India recently, I was reminded of a story that forever impacted one of our missionaries. This missionary told me of taking my grandfather, Glenn Dix, former CEO of SLM for many years, and…

Introducing New Faces on the SLM Board
Doug Truax graduated from Liberty University with a Bachelor of Science degree in International Business. At age 23, he and his wife moved to Ivory Coast, West Africa, to work with Baptist International Mission Inc. During their 10 years in…

Not Ready to Retire
Born in the spring of 1931, Sylvia Pollard grew up as one of 12 children on a farm in Kentucky. She attended a one-room schoolhouse, milked cows, fed farm animals, and at 16, heard the Gospel and received Christ.
The news was not well received…