February 8, 2012 - Punjab Ministries of India regularly conducts outside evangelistic outreaches in North India. In 2011, when the missionary team held an open- air meeting in one of the villages, they reported a wonderful work of God among the crowd of about 250 people. After they gathered, the missionary preached the gospel and 19 villagers repented from their sin and received Jesus Christ as their Savior. Afterward, 14 of them were baptized. Read more.

January 26, 2012 - War! Poverty! Famine! Street children! Widows! Orphans! Rampant disease! Corrupt gov¬ernments! Genocide! HIV/AIDS!—all these problems and more, well-known by the world, only increase even as bil¬lions of dollars in foreign aid continue to pour into Africa. Read more.

January 26, 2012 - Just a few weeks ago, the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram murdered Suleman Asmaul. A serious convert from Islam, Suleman spent time in discipleship training where he determined to take the gospel back to his own unreached and highly resistant Kanuri tribe. The Kanuri are 100% Muslims based in Maiduguri, where most of the Boko Haram terrorist attacks have taken place until recently. Read more.

January 25, 2012 - On January 20, multiple bombs rocked Kano as Boko Haram sprayed gunfire on 8 government sites including the headquarters of both local and zonal police, the State Security Service, which is the much-feared secret police, and immigration and passport offices. So far more than 200 people have died, many more are injured. Read more.

January 18, 2012 - First-hand report of a native missionary ministry leader supported by Christian Aid. "Thank God for His grace and mercy. Today, we buried Jacob Eloiyi, one of our ministry supporters who was killed by Islamic terrorists. The funeral was highly attended by believers, and we prayed for the peace of our city and Nigeria. Continue to pray with us as we trust the Lord that all will be well. It seems we are more peaceful for now even though three people were shot yesterday in a beer parlor." Read more.

January 11, 2012 - Nearly 99 percent of all remote villages in Burma have no electricity. Because of this, church planters are unable to visit the villagers in the evenings for evangelistic outreach, follow-up or Bible study. But evenings are the only time these hardworking villagers are available since they work and perform their household chores during the daylight hours. Read more.

January 10, 2012 - Mothers here are telling horror stories of how their children were “robbed from their beds” by flood waters that killed over 1200 during the Christmas holidays. Indigenous missionaries, with help from Christian Aid Mission, are rushing assistance to help rebuild broken lives, homes and churches in the aftermath of Typhoon Washi. Over 300,000 were left homeless. Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, Christian Aid is forwarding emergency finances. Read more.

January 6, 2012 - Indigenous missionaries are rushing aid to help rebuild broken lives, homes and churches after Typhoon Washi killed over 1200 during the Christmas holidays. The death toll is still climbing. On Thursday, 25 more died in a mudslide and many are still missing. Over 300,000 were left homeless. Christian Aid Mission of Charlottesville, Virginia is sending emergency aid. Read more.

January 1, 2012 - For more than 58 years Christian Aid has provided representation in the USA for indigenous evangelistic missions based in lands of great poverty. Most are in countries where American missionaries are no longer allowed to preach the gospel of Christ. Local support is not available in these poor countries. We know of tens of thousands of native missionaries who are out on the fields right now with no cash income. The work of many thousands of them has been greatly increased when their parent missions received financial help from Christian Aid. Read more.

December 21, 2011 - The headline above goes back to May 2009. At that time the Board of Directors resolved that every contribution received by Christian Aid designated for an overseas need or ministry must be sent overseas 100% without deduction. No portion shall be retained by Christian Aid to cover expenses incurred on behalf of the overseas ministries involved. Read more.

December 14, 2011 - To plant a witness for our Saviour within those nations where He previously had no people for His name has been the top priority of Christian Aid for more than 50 years. It’s the main point of foreign missions as revealed in the New Testament. God’s Word is not man-centered; it is Christ-centered. Read more.

December 14, 2011 - Thanks to the loving gifts of many Christian Aid donors like you, the Christian school located in a secular Islamic country of West Africa has been able to complete the minimum renovations necessary to open its doors to the 300 children who are now being educated and discipled by native missionaries who love the Lord! Read more.

December 13, 2011 - Those who enter fully into the Christian experience will continually share two opposite emotions: joy and sorrow. When our Saviour was born the heavenly angels announced “good tiding of great joy” to shepherds abiding in the fields. But some time later when the newborn child was presented to the Lord in the temple at Jerusalem a prophet named Simeon said that He was “a sign which shall be spoken against” and warned His mother, Mary, that because of this child a sword would pierce through her soul (Luke 2:34-35). Read more.

December 07, 2011 - When Dr. Bob Finley, Chairman and Founder of Christian Aid, was in China 62 years ago, he never in his wildest dreams imagined that we would ever see the likes of what’s happening there today. House churches are exploding in growth throughout the entire country. Millions have accepted Christ as Saviour and most are winning others. Read more.

November 23, 2011 - More than 130 Christians, including several indigenous missionaries, were brutally slaughtered on November 11 when members of a fanatic Islamic sect viciously attacked the mostly Christian community of New Jerusalem in Yobe State, Nigeria. Christian Aid Mission, based in Charlottesville, Virginia has established a fund to provide assistance for victims of violence and those who are helping them. Read more.

November 09, 2011 - In the dark days of Communist rule, many American church leaders said that the light of the gospel had been extinguished in the USSR. Even during that oppressive period, Christian Aid was in secret communications with hundreds of born again believers who were keeping alive the torch of Christian testimony in those closed countries. Read more.

November 08, 2011 - Indigenous missionaries here in northern Lebanon are asking for emergency help to feed and care for hundreds of Syrian refugees who have fled the terror and violence across the border in Syria. About 6000 refugees have streamed out of Syria so far in what amounts to a “secret exodus” – and the Christian community here is being pressed to give shelter and emergency aid. Read more.

October 26, 2011 - Hundreds of tribes and nations live in the 7000 islands of the Philippine archipelago. Before the Spaniards came in the 16th Century, the only organized religion among them was Islam, centered mainly in the large southern island of Mindinao. Spanish priests introduced a paganized form of Catholicism which did not change the lives of individuals. Then Protestant missionaries poured in following the American occupation, which began in 1899. Read more.

October 25, 2011 - A growing chorus of indigenous leaders here are calling upon Christian Aid Mission to send more help for them to reach out to their suffering neighbors. "Thailand is experiencing its worst flooding in over 60 years," says one leader, "Nearly 30 provinces have been flooded with thousands losing their homes, churches and businesses. Over 300 have been killed in Thailand alone. Read more.

October 20, 2011 - More than 1 million refugees have fled the Ivory Coast to escape the bitter civil war precipitated by the fraudulent election of French-backed president Alassan Ouattara. One of the most prosperous and stable nations in Africa under the rule of former president Laurent Gbagbo, the Ivory Coast was flung into chaos when the rigged election results declared Ouattara the winner. Gbagbo, who refused to relinquish control, insisted the contrived election was a foreign plot to control the country’s sizeable natural resources.Read more.

October 19, 2011 - During the months of June and July, with help from Christian Aid, the Lord enabled native missionaries serving with a ministry in India to reach 224 new villages with the gospel for the first time. Field missionaries, with assistance from missionary trainees who were helping in the field as a part of their summer internship, presented Christ in a variety areas. Read more.

October 17, 2011 - Indigenous missionaries have organized a flotilla of small boats to deliver disaster relief along with a strong witness for Christ to flood victims here. They are being assisted with help from Christian Aid Mission of Charlottesville, Virginia, which has set up an emergency fund to send relief to the most affected areas. Read more.

October 12, 2011 - Two years ago, in one of the secular Islamic countries of Africa, the owner of a highly-rated private school became a believer through the leader of an indigenous missionary ministry supported by Christian Aid. He gave his school building to be used by the ministry to build the Lord’s kingdom and became a missionary himself. He has already brought more than 40 people to Christ. Read more.

October 11, 2011 - Christian Aid Mission is offering pastors and missions committee members free resources and consulting help in preparing more effective missions budgets for 2012. “Over 200,000 local churches in the United States are approving mission’s plans and outreaches for next year during this time of the year – and we want to make sure they have the help them need to make wise decisions,” says Bill Bray. He is the staff missionary assigned to help churches get the resources they need both at this time, and year round. Read more.

October 05, 2011 - Native missionaries make the best possible persons for reaching their own people. They know the customs and languages of ethnic groups in their native lands. Local foods, climate and living conditions are not strange to them. So Christian Aid gets behind these anointed apostles to supply their needs for missionary work among unreached people groups in their respective countries. Read more.

September 28, 2011 - Maurice Sawadogo, well-known and highly esteemed in Burkina Faso, proudly told Christian Aid Africa Director, Rae Burnett, of the 72 churches he planted and turned over to local denominations. Energetic and zealous, he had little understanding of true discipleship and the nature and purpose of the Church. Read more.

September 27, 2011 - Rain continues to fall and water keeps on pouring into Pakistan causing massive destruction to homes, crops and livelihood. In one of the area where one indigenous ministry is working, 70 Christian families are completely surrounded with water. The place is only approachable by boat. They are just waiting for help. Read more.

September 21, 2011 - An Indigenous Ministry that works in Iraq reports that Christians are persecuted and sometimes killed. Christians are no longer protected. Many have left Iraq. Future governments will not give Christians freedom. On the other hand, there is some good news. Read more.

September 14, 2011 - The explosive growth of indigenous missionary ministries is beyond the comprehension of most church people in America. Content to follow traditional methods of sending our own members abroad, churches are generally unaware that our Lord has moved ahead in world evangelization and left us far behind. Read more.

September 9, 2011 - Rolando and Noemi Gonzales of Living Stones Ministry are very thankful to God for what friends in America are doing to help them save children at risk here. The Gonzales recently opened a new children's program for 130 needy children in Guajitos with financial assistance from Christian Aid Mission in Charlottesville, Virginia. Almost half the population is under 15 years of age, and millions of children are living in poverty. Many are being exploited and abused. Read more.

September 7, 2011 - Davao Strategic Outreach assists in church planting in Mindanao, Philippines targeting the Ata tribe. The Ata people are farmers scattered among the mountains in several provinces. Church planters who are sent to reach these unreached people do not receive funds to support them. If church planters came into a village with cash, they would be considered as outsiders and it would be difficult to plant a church. Read more.

September 1, 2011 - As Slavik Radchuck continues his 2011 series of evangelistic crusades this month, the Christian Aid Mission director for the former USSR is calling upon American Christians to help acquire urgently needed church buildings in those countries. Slavik believes that the lack of church buildings and worship centers has reached a crisis stage in many former Soviet states. Read more.

August 25, 2011 - Indigenous missionary leaders in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan are facing emergency needs for aid to flood victims and asking for prayers and support from Christians in the USA. Almost 4 million people are homeless as a result of monsoon rains and flooding according to the South Asia Director for Christian Aid Mission in Charlottesville, Virginia. Over 100 were killed in floods over the weekend and many more may die in weeks to come from disease and malnutrition. Read more.

August 24, 2011 - Christian Aid began sending financial help to indigenous missionary ministries in Latin America in 1953, and has continued to do so for 58 years. Priority is given to those that are sending native missionaries to carry the gospel into jungles and mountains where isolated tribes have never had contact with the outside world. Read more.

August 23, 2011 - Every day, more than 1000 refugees from Somalia flood across the unguarded border into Kenya, adding more hungry mouths to the 1 million starving refugees already there. Over five million Africans are suffering the ravages of drought and starvation as famine stalks three countries in the northeastern “horn” of Africa. Read more.

August 18, 2011 - Gabriel Barau and his missionary team were returning from one of the regular stops of the "School on Wheels" which was provided through Christian Aid Mission in Charlottesville, Virginia. Read more.

August 17, 2011 - At most missionary conferences, the theme is likely to be centered on how many human souls are lost in darkness with no hope of salvation. We are urged, therefore, to “rescue the perishing.” Read more.

August 12, 2011 - Financial aid is being received here for destitute victims of leprosy from Christian Aid Mission based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Most of these lepers are located in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and many of them are Christians. Read more.

August 10, 2011 - Robert Morrison went out from England in 1807 as the first evangelical missionary to China. Thousands more followed him during the next 142 years; then the Communists took over and put them all out in 1949. Marxism-Maoism became the equivalent of a state religion. Read more.

August 4, 2011 - Summer is a time of the year when most tribal people are not busy because they are waiting for their crops to grow. During this time native missionaries in Burma hold summer evangelism camps that are very effective in reaching these families. Missionaries are able to spend a concentrated time in evangelism, teaching and following up new believers. Read more.

July 28, 2011 - Only two years ago, Life Missions Africa in Senegal extended 50 invitations to attend its first annual Young Men’s Conference. In response, 140 Senegalese from all religious backgrounds and tribal groups, including non-believers, arrived to study God’s Word and learn how the cross is the key to life in Christ. Read more.

July 21, 2011 - Read this update from Missionary Crusaders Ministries' leader, Gabriel Barau. Learn about their outstanding work with refugees from the Kona/Mumuye tribal war. Read more.

July 13, 2011 - This year one ministry in Burma has sent an evangelistic team to work among unreached people groups. One missionary conducted a crusade in a town where the people are nominal Christians. As a result of the crusade, 71 people received salvation and eight persons were baptized. Read more.

July 6, 2011 - About 120 students of Bharat Bible College, as part of their practical outdoor ministry, along with the teachers, went into the streets to preach the gospel. They set up at several strategic centers in 11 towns and surrounding villages with the help of the public address system. Read more.

June 22, 2011 - For nearly six decades Christian Aid has provided a U.S. headquarters and support-gathering service for native mission ministries based in poor countries where local support is not available. Read more.

June 8, 2011 - It’s like asking, “What is a church?” The average person thinks of a building down on the corner. Mature Christians know better. The Word of God defines a church as a gathering of believers who have a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus, and thus with one another as members of His body. So what is a missionary? Read more.

June 1, 2011 - Christian workers who minister along a river in Ecuador have been praying for a boat. Recently they received God’s supply. Christian Aid sent funds to Anchayacu Mission of Ecuador and the ministry was able to purchase a boat and motor. Read more.

May 25, 2011 - While visiting other countries, Christian Aid staff missionaries look for effective indigenous ministries already working among their own people. In addition, Christian Aid is frequently referred to new ministries by trusted missionaries whom we currently support. Often we receive letters or emails from groups that may have seen our website. Read more.

May 18, 2011 - Jean-Batiste was preparing to become a doctor and eventually assume leadership of the ministry. The day after Christmas, he and a missionary team were readying the boat given through Christian Aid for ministry to previously unreached remote areas. Jean-Batiste was swept in by a strong river current, and he drowned. Read more.

May 11, 2011 - Recently Christian Aid sent Sarla Mahara, director for South Asia, to Bangladesh and Nepal to evaluate the work and assess the needs of several indigenous ministries. On this trip, she visited three of the newer ministries Christian Aid began assisting in Bangladesh, and seven ministries in Nepal, which have been receiving help for several years. Read more.

May 3, 2011 - Christian Aid Mission leaders in Charlottesville, Virginia have put out an emergency prayer alert for a congregation here which experienced police persecution over the weekend. The missionary pastor and his family were arrested, and are being secretly held in custody according to leaders associated with ministry to former USSR states. Read more.

April 27, 2011 - Anti-Christian Fanatics Increase Attacks on Missions and Churches. Indigenous Ministries See Opportunities in Suffering. Calling for increased prayer, Rae Burnett, Africa Director at Virginia-based Christian Aid Mission, has confirmed reports that many thousands of Christians in North Africa and Nigeria spent the Easter holidays locked behind closed doors for their safety. Read more.

March 18, 2011 - The Christian Aid relief co-ordinator for Japan is calling Americans to pray and collect aid this weekend for families from Fukusima who lost loved ones in last week's killer quake. Read more.

February 22, 2011 - Violent government crackdowns on demonstrations continue in some North African countries this week. In Egypt, long-time Dictator/President Mubarak has been forced to resign. Native missionaries are concerned about the country's unpredictable future. Read more.

February 1, 2011 - For centuries, the impoverished tribals of the Bandarban Hills been without the spiritual and physical help they need to survive and develop. Totally animistic until recently, most of these tribals lived in terror of the tree spirits, ghosts and demons that inhabit their streams and hills. Read more.

January 12, 2011 - Haiti's best hope is for gospel-preaching indigenous missions to get the support they need, says Christian Aid Mission's Haiti Director, Rae Burnett. She directed emergency response to last year's deadly earthquake and is in regular touch with indigenous missions there which are assisted by Christian Aid. Read more.

September 13, 2010 - Although the secular news media have nearly forgotten the flood disaster in Pakistan, local Christian mission teams still carry on the grueling relief efforts every day. Delivering aid to one family at a time, they are often forced to use public transportation and walk to remote villages. Read more.

September 2, 2010 - Christian Aid Mission is increasing efforts to collect emergency help for the flood victims of the continuing crisis in Pakistan as worldwide interest from the news media wanes. Read more.

July 12, 2010 - Over 200,000 missionaries are on the fields with no support. Christian Aid is your best means to help meet their needs. Read more.

July 8, 2010 - In the Rift Valley, 500 families have been displaced by the floods that have destroyed human life and vegetation. Some of the displaced families are at risk for waterborne diseases such as cholera, dysentery, malaria and typhoid.... Read more.

June 4, 2010 - Christian Aid Mission is looking at long-term support in their continuing response to help the real indigenous missions rebuild in Haiti. Much short-term relief was offered by many government and humanitarian agencies, but much is yet to be done. Read more.

May 30, 2010 - As the annual summer season of open air campaigns begins in the former USSR, Slavik Radchuk has issued an urgent appeal for help from friends in the USA. “For the sake of having a good witness to the public, it is not possible to collect offerings in these crusades so I am asking help from Christian friends in America,” says Slavik. Read more.

May 28, 2010 - People killed; families starving; homes, roads, and church buildings destroyed as flash floods and subsequent landslides again claim many lives and cause massive destruction of property and farmlands throughout Kenya. Read more.

May 27, 2010 - Native missionaries say disaster relief is needed now for distressed believers in Sri Lanka. Just off the coast of South India, the island state of Sri Lanka was hit with an early tropical storm that caused massive flooding and displaced 500,000 a week ago. Read more.

May 5, 2010 - In SRI LANKA, native missionaries spend many hours traveling by foot to villages to share the gospel, plant churches and disciple new believers. A ministry in NEPAL, started in 2000, develops and trains church leaders. NEPAL is also home to nearly 20,000 Tibetan refugees who have been resistant to the Gospel message, but are now being reached by native missionaries. These ministries need your help. Read more.

April 30, 2010 - After more than 60 years of fruitful ministry, a pioneer apostle to the people of the Philippines has gone to his reward. Greg Tingson went to be with the Lord he served so faithfully on April 24, 2010. Read more.

March 18, 2010 - Approximately 10,000 people in northern Kenya have been displaced by flooding, with hundreds of animals drowned or missing, and many houses and businesses submerged. At least 17 people have died in the floods. Read more.

March 9, 2010 - The following report was sent to Rae Burnett, Africa Director for Christian Aid Mission, by Gabriel Barau, the leader of Missionary Crusaders Ministries in Nigeria. The Jos community, still in recovery mode from Januarys violence, was awakened at 2 a.m. on March 7 by Fulani Muslims who set fire to houses and vehicles, and butchered or shot those who tried to escape. They killed over 500 people, mostly women and children. Read more.