Barbara J. Singerman

I was born the same year as the Barbie Doll and I’m not dead yet, although by human physical standards, I’ve nearly crossed that threshold several times and felt terrible enough with malaria and typhoid fever to think I was going to! Having a gun held at my back and experiencing a vehicle roll-over at sixty miles an hour into elephant grass were nearly the earthy endings to my adventure. But Jesus isn't quite ready for me yet.

Totally without forewarning, this homeschooling, piano teaching, youth choir leading mom of three, Jesus called to be a missionary. At the same time Jesus called Jeff, roughly ten years into our marriage. Importantly, I never desired to be a missionary!!

Yet, God created and gifted me to minister, to write, speak, teach and disciple using oral principles in French or Fͻngbe where rarely, if ever, an American has stood. God’s gifting and calling have remained though, after 35 years in Africa, we transitioned Stateside.

Greatest spiritual lesson?

I am completely inadequate in myself. There is nothing in me, from me that is able to do anything. All my adequacy, ability is from Christ. Even the breath that I breathe is Christ in me, 2 Cor. 3:5.