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Tech Helps Power Gospel amid Pandemic in Latin America

February 17, 2022

Depressed since her marriage started to sour a few years ago, 32-year-old Ximena Flores suffered steady deterioration of her mental health, cementing her husband’s desire for separation. A schoolteacher with a 5-year-old daughter, Flores’ condition worsened when the COVID-19 pandemic forced her to teach online from home – where the sources of stress and conflict overlapped with work challenges. “Someone told me that there was another teacher who was a Christian and could help me,” Flores said. “She told me Jesus is the answer, and I said, ‘How?’”

Gospel Creates Lives Peruvians Never Imagined

January 13, 2022

At a small nightclub in rural Peru, the blaring music was drowning out the message a local missionary was giving nearby at a three-day gospel event. Villagers asked the nightclub owner to turn the music off, and he grudgingly consented. He was further annoyed when the preacher and other Christians visited him the next day and invited him to attend that night’s evangelistic event.

Raging Husband in Brazil Opens Eyes to Truth

August 12, 2021

Hungover from another night of drinking, a father of five in Brazil recalled that his wife had fled the previous night, figuring she had better chances of survival among wild animals in the jungle than at home with him.

Idols and Virus v. Gospel in Brazil

April 8, 2021

A half a century ago, a man who declared himself the son of God told Brazilian villagers that only those who believed in the large cross he was carrying would be rescued from an imminent, fiery apocalypse.

Uneducated Father in Cuba Learns Wisdom of God

March 4, 2021

David Montoya didn’t believe in God, and he and his family didn’t go to church because he feared priests would ask for money.

Light Shines in Brazil’s Deep, Dark Jungles

September 17, 2020

The village chief and other key community leaders near a town on Brazil’s Amazon River told a native missionary to leave.

By the time other native missionaries visited the village months later, the leader of a ministry based in Brazil said, nearly every inhabitant was addicted to alcohol.

“The community was taken over by the power of darkness; the spirit of suicide took over the young and old,” he said.

Hitman in Peru Looks for Victim, Finds Local Missionary

April 16, 2020

A Sunday morning church service seemed as good a place as any for an armed stranger to begin looking for the man he had been hired to kill.

Inside the church building, he heard the preacher reading from the Bible about someone asking Jesus what the greatest commandment was.

It was the following, second greatest commandment, however, that caught the gunman’s attention: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Tribal Woman’s Dreams Present Daunting Evil

January 16, 2020

For an ethnic Mixtec woman like Donaji, nightmares were not just scary but predicted disaster in this world and the next.

The 40-year-old fruit-vendor in a remote village of western Mexico believed she was surrounded by gods of rain, trees, mountains, stones and forces in nature telling her she was doomed.

No amount of animal sacrifices could ward off the destruction of her soul that the dangers and deaths in her dreams portended.

Shattered Lives in Peru and Ecuador Find Hope

November 21, 2019

He had lost the woman he had married 11 years before when she finally decided she had to get away from the violence erupting from his addictions to drugs and alcohol.

Enrique knew his life was in ruins, but the 35-year-old electrician in Peru felt helpless to repair it.

When a neighbor in his village brought him to a native missionary’s church, he seemed impervious to the gospel preaching but liked the worship atmosphere. He returned to the Sunday services for months.

Doing Battle against Suicide and Witchcraft

October 17, 2019

Alberto, who had been raised to believe in God in Colombia, borrowed a motorcycle with the idea of ramming it into oncoming traffic to kill himself.

He had taken to carousing with new friends who led him to alcohol and drug addiction, but when he became seriously ill, they had abandoned him.

His choices had led him to the edge of a dangerous pit of despair.

Refugees Obtain Miraculous Help in Europe

October 6, 2022

A Kurdish family recently fled from an oppressive government in Iran. After walking 37 nights in the mountains of Greece, the mother’s feet had swollen so much that they no longer in fit her shoes. She also had a skin infection, as did one of her children. “They had been walking at night and sleeping during the day, hiding in the mountains,” the leader of a ministry in Greece said. “They were told that if they got arrested, they would be pushed back into Turkey.”

Gospel Reaches Gloomy Corners of Kyrgyzstan

September 29, 2022

At a Christian youth camp with distant views of snow-capped mountains in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan, nearly 50 nervous children were having a hard time warming up to each other. At more than 5,200 feet above sea level, the camp center was warmer in July than during most of the year, but the kids ages 10 to 14 had arrived cold with gloom about how they were going to get through the week surrounded by strangers. “On the first day when the kids arrived, they were very closed and dissatisfied,” the leader of the native ministry said. “We began to worry a little about how we would do anything if they were so dissatisfied.”

Change of Heart Seen in Syrian Refugees

September 22, 2022

Muslim extremists often appear in refugee camps, and word spreads that native missionaries bringing aid to the tents pray with refugees and leave Bibles for them. So workers were concerned when a grim-faced refugee camp leader summoned them to talk over tea. “Last week while distributing things to the children, you were praying, and you gave some people copies of the Bible,” he told them.

Christ Revealed amid Troubles in Southeast Asia

September 15, 2022

Kimbap was on her way home from work in Cambodia last summer when she saw a gang of teenage boys assaulting a younger boy. Though a lifelong Buddhist, Kimbap had been listening to a Christian radio program for several days, and when he screamed for help, she instinctively began praying to Christ. “I had very little belief that He was there for real to help this boy, because I am a Buddhist worshiper,” Kimbap said.

Military Conflict in Burma Drives People to Christ

September 8, 2022

Burma’s internal military conflicts have curtailed ministry efforts, but the chaos also has helped expand God’s kingdom as displaced people take refuge at a Bible college and Christian camps. Among those fleeing to the jungles or to neighboring countries are young people, a native ministry leader said. “Many young people, however, remain in the country and do not know what to do with their lives,” he said. “Some young people run to Bible colleges and Christian camps.”

Dying Woman in North Africa Finds Hope

September 1, 2022

A ministry leader in North Africa arrived at the home of dying woman to say farewell, pray for her and, at her parents’ request, baptize her. Only after he arrived did he realize she had often attended his church, then mysteriously stopped. “She was aware that she had a few days left before she would die and had no hope for healing,” he said. “Although we didn’t know anything about the medical reports of her illness and what it was, I had a feeling that this could be an evil spirit.”

Refugee Girl Overcomes Tragedy

August 25, 2022

A young Iraqi girl’s grandfather died when a suspected Islamic State (ISIS) militant rammed the car carrying him. Sara later learned from a teacher at a native ministry’s school in Jordan that God loved her and her family, so she thought He must be different from the divine being her parents blamed for the loss of her grandfather. One day she was deeply missing her grandfather and crying at school, and the teacher noticed that she seemed frightened as well as sad.

Gospel Challenges in Liberia Deep and Daunting

August 18, 2022

A native ministry leader in Liberia and team members at times walk five to seven hours daily through jungles to bring the gospel to the lost. They must rely on God to protect them against wild beasts or hostile followers of tribal religion. “Idol worshippers sometimes threaten us, saying that if we don’t leave their village, they will kill us,” he said.

Unaccompanied Refugee Youths Lost in Europe

August 11, 2022

Seeking to reunite with his brother in London, a 16-year-old Bedouin shepherd boy from the Middle East was growing frustrated with questions local missionaries were posing to him. The boy started crying when they asked him to sign an application form for asylum. “He had never gone to school and didn’t know how to read or write,” one of the leaders of the ministry said. “He started crying when our interpreter explained to him what a signature meant.”

Wonders Break Gospel Barriers in the Middle East

August 4, 2022

In a country in the Middle East, a young Muslim man recently passed by a local ministry’s church site and picked up a New Testament from the stack outside. “He took it home, secretly read from it and hid it, because he feared what his family might do to him,” the ministry leader said. The 22-year-old Muslim had no idea his older brother was also secretly exploring Christianity.

Healing – and Death – Move Parents in Africa toward Christ

July 28, 2022

A young mother in Africa had gone to a series of traditional healers, each with their fetishes and incantations to tribal gods, in a desperate quest to heal her son. He was 3 years old and had never been able to walk. She heard about a meeting at a nearby community where villagers studied the Bible. In her sub-Saharan country unidentified due to local opposition to the gospel, both the healing and the deaths of children recently moved parents to seek Christ.

Suicidal Mother in North Africa Fights Spiritual Battle

July 21, 2022

Heba was rescued before she could end her life, condemning the 32-year-old mother in northern Africa to continue in a misery whose sources she did not fully understand. An affair with a younger man blunted the pain at times but soon compounded it, further toxifying problems with her husband. “I was living a miserable life filled with sadness, failure and problems,” she said.

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Tech Helps Power Gospel amid Pandemic in Latin America

Gospel Creates Lives Peruvians Never Imagined

Raging Husband in Brazil Opens Eyes to Truth

Idols and Virus v. Gospel in Brazil

Uneducated Father in Cuba Learns Wisdom of God

Light Shines in Brazil’s Deep, Dark Jungles

Hitman in Peru Looks for Victim, Finds Local Missionary

Tribal Woman’s Dreams Present Daunting Evil

Shattered Lives in Peru and Ecuador Find Hope

Doing Battle against Suicide and Witchcraft

Refugees Obtain Miraculous Help in Europe

Gospel Reaches Gloomy Corners of Kyrgyzstan

Change of Heart Seen in Syrian Refugees

Christ Revealed amid Troubles in Southeast Asia

Military Conflict in Burma Drives People to Christ

Dying Woman in North Africa Finds Hope

Refugee Girl Overcomes Tragedy

Gospel Challenges in Liberia Deep and Daunting

Unaccompanied Refugee Youths Lost in Europe

Wonders Break Gospel Barriers in the Middle East

Healing – and Death – Move Parents in Africa toward Christ

Suicidal Mother in North Africa Fights Spiritual Battle

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