Half Way Home
I arrived safely in Haiti on Sunday and, for once, all my luggage arrived with me. I got to the Double Harvest mission property before dark which was nice. I was able to get settled in before the power...
View ArticleHome Again
I really just wanted to say that I got home after an amazing week. I was so glad to see Joy and Matt last night at about 8 pm. The week was so full that it took a lot out of me. I taught for close to...
View ArticleSTAR 2011 Roatán – Arrival
Dear friends, It has only been 3 weeks since I got back from an amazing trip to India. Early this morning I left from Tampa to join up with a group of 18 people for a BBI STAR Team evangelism trip to...
View ArticleSTAR Team Thursday, July 21st.
Dear friends, It seems like I am sitting down for the first time in three days. We have been on the move here in Roatán and God has been blessing wonderfully. We have such a dedicated team of workers....
View ArticleSTAR Team Thursday, July 23rd.
Dear friends, Just let me give a brief close to the week of evangelism here. We held the closing rally tonight. The crowd wasn’t huge but there were 200-300 people present. Over and over again this...
View ArticleSTAR Team 2011 – July 26TH
Dear friends, Our BBI leadership team, Herman Meister, Sam Montoya and myself traveled here to central Honduras on Sunday in order to visit with our BBI missions personnel working in the town of...
View ArticleGate 79
Dear prayer partners, I am at the Tampa airport before sunup waiting to take off to Miami and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The hurricane decided to bother a lot of other people’s plans but it seems to have...
View Article“Whatever”
Dear friends of our ministry, Flexible! I was once asked what the most important quality was for being a missionary. I think this is the quality I would suggest first. You just kind of say, “Whatever”...
View ArticleLast Day in Haiti
Dear friends, I am about to finish up another amazing week in Haiti. Each day has had some unique experiences. I have been teaching a seminar on evangelism to pastors and church leaders from about 50...
View ArticleGetting Back to My Roots
Dear friends of the Drakes and their ministry, I’ll be heading back to gate 79 at Tampa International Airport this morning. I’m heading out on a two week tour of some of my significant “homes” in my...
View Article“BBi45 – The Story of God at Work”
REMEMBER, REFLECT, AND REJOICE Written by Steve Best, President of BBI A good book has a preface! Let’s start with the preface: “Generation after generation forgot the stories and significance of...
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BBI: Then … Once Upon A Time — 1973-78, Part 1
Part I Eugene and Monna Dean Priddy founded Bible Basics International as Keynote Ministries in October, 1973. They had served for 16 years with Trans World Radio (TWR), the largest missionary radio...
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BBI: Then … Once Upon A Time — 1973-78, Part 2
Part II In our previous chapter, we shared the birth of Keynote Ministries, which later became Bible Basics International. Today, let us tell you some of the ways God was working through the ministry...
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BBI: Now … A servant has gone home.
On January 26, a great woman of faith and prayer warrior went home to be with her Savior. Monna Dean Priddy spent the last 60 plus years serving Jesus. Even after leaving full-time ministry she reached...
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BBI: Then … Once Upon A Time — 1979-83, Part 1
Part I In late 1976, Trans World Radio had an emergency. They needed a European Field Director and asked Eugene if he would fill this roll temporarily while they looked for a man to take on the...
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Sample Blog Entry
This year’s STAR Teams had a very successful summer. They went to the town of Las Vegas in the Santa Bárbara department of Honduras. Using our standard three-pronged approach, we sent a medical team...
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How to Make Sure Your Short-Term Trip Helps Instead of Harms the Mission...
Print Friendly Version Read Part II Read Part III Part I: What Goes Wrong Whenever people prepare for a short term trip, good feelings abound. People want to help and serve and have an adventure. The...
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How to Make Sure Your Short-Term Trip Helps Instead of Harms the Mission...
Print Friendly Version Read Part I Read Part III Part II: How to Make Short Term Trips Go Right In Part I, we learned about some reasons that poorly designed and executed short term trips occur. In...
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How to Make Sure Your Short-Term Trip Helps Instead of Harms the Mission...
Print Friendly Version Read Part I Read Part II Part III: How to Evaluate your Short Term Trips Short term trips can be challenging to evaluate. Even terrible trips have some excellent and powerful...
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Training vs. Education: There is a Difference
Print Friendly Version Read Article II One of the things I have found frustrating in my missions career is the penchant Americans have for confusing education with training. While there are areas of...
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