Bill & Karleen Crandall serve in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Their most recent newsletter is here. Bill & Karleen served in the ministry at Yukon, Okla., many years ago, and much of their support is provided by Christian churches in Oklahoma. Their daughter Jennifer and her husband serve in Krasnodar, in Russia. Jennifer is hospitalized in Krasnodar awaiting the birth of her second child. The Crandalls are headed there.

This is an amazing family. They were able to turn their backs on U.S. materialism and security, which the rest of us take for granted and treat as our rights, rather than our privileges.

If you are tired of supporting mega-churches and mega-charities that never seem to do more than add to their own wealth, here is the alternative: real missionaries and real people living adventures the rest of us only dare read about.