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Snake Bite Paves Way for Gospel in Colombia

November 12, 2020

A pit viper bite, rather than a pandemic, was what concerned the parents of a snake-stricken girl in central Colombia. The teenage daughter of local missionaries was bitten by the poisonous snake in a jungle village so remote that access to medical care would take days. “Her parents prayed for her, and they had full confidence that God was almighty to stop and expel that poison from their daughter, and that she would not die,” the leader of the native ministry said.

Youth in Paraguay Saved from Tragic Path

October 8, 2020

Abandoned by his parents, a boy in rural Paraguay had not yet hit his teenage years when he began seeing how theft made him feel self-sufficient and tough. With his mother living elsewhere and his father focused only on drinking, he had taken shelter with his grandparents. The approval he won from his hooligan friends helped make up for the parental affection he lacked.

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.

Spike in Coronavirus Infections in Latin America Slams Christian Workers

July 30, 2020

The director of a ministry based in Chile had already seen thousands of people in need, including pastors without income in churches his ministry had planted, when he learned that five people in one church were infected with the novel coronavirus. Then he received more bad news. “I was just told that a young church couple has COVID-19, and the wife in this family is six months pregnant,” he said.

Soaring Drug Use Destroying Lives In Mexico

June 25, 2020

Not long after a young woman in central Mexico left her abusive husband and their two children, she got involved with another man who beat her – and introduced her to drugs. Lorena tried to leave him, but she was addicted to the drugs only he could provide. Things got worse when she discovered she was pregnant. “She was like in a dark tunnel with no end,” a ministry worker said. “Time passed, and Lorena went deeper and deeper into drugs.”

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.”

Workers Help Children in Peru Battle Poverty’s Monsters

January 30, 2020

The children want to learn. The teachers want to teach. But neither the school in the Peruvian jungle village nor the schoolkids have enough money for school supplies like notebooks. “Children go to school without notebooks, and teachers cannot do their job,” the leader of a native ministry said. A young boy in one village told his mother that his teacher could not give him assignments because he had no notebook. His mother replied, “Let’s pray to God to provide.”

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.

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