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November 29, 2021

Thursday, December 16 – Nepal A tribal group already without income due to COVID-19 lockdowns also saw their crops fail from scarce rainfall. Local missionaries were able to provide relief

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.

Tears of Desperate Mother in North Africa Turn to Joy

January 6, 2022

A single mother in North Africa phoned native missionaries, telling them the pandemic had left her without stable income – one of hundreds of such calls of desperation that local ministries receive. “But her voice, mixed with tears and moans, said this was not her biggest problem,” the leader of the native ministry said. The leader learned the woman’s husband had abandoned her eight years ago, leaving her so destitute that four years ago she had sold one of her kidneys to pay basic living expenses.

Dream Haunts, Helps Save Refugee in Middle East

December 30, 2021

Hala feared a dream about her feet bleeding meant she was going to fall ill. After several months as a refugee in a Middle Eastern country, the young woman from Syria had been learning about Christianity from a native missionary, and she called him after waking from the frightening dream. “When I woke up, I was afraid,” she said. “Was something bad going to happen to me?”

Widowed Christian in Africa Persecuted for Her Faith

December 23, 2021

Arafa had been in charge of teaching Islam to women in an African country when a native missionary led the recently widowed woman to receive Christ. Her Muslim in-laws not only beat her but began a campaign in the courts to deprive her and her family of their legal property rights, the leader of a native ministry said. The relatives were especially furious as her conversion led to her nine children and four grandchildren becoming Christians.

Schoolteacher in Vietnam Leaves Old Life Behind

December 16, 2021

“Because she was so desperate, she wanted to commit suicide by drinking insecticide,” a ministry leader said of a schoolteacher in Vietnam. She had a handsome young husband, was raising two young children and was in so much pain that she wanted to kill herself. “When holding the bottle of insecticide intending to drink it,” the leader said, “her two children were holding her and hugging her and crying.”

Gospel Moves in Kenya in Spite of COVID-19

December 9, 2021

The pastor of a native ministry’s church in Kenya was returning home from a visit with troubled villagers in the dark of night when four young men stopped him. He was known as the one people went to when they had any problem, but the four robbers who stopped him saw him only as a lone target in the dark. “Four young men ambushed him and wanted to rob him, but after one recognized him, he stopped the other three,” the director said.

Gospel Grows in Laos Despite Opposition

December 2, 2021

Pei, a widow in Laos, was secretly discipled at a local missionary’s church for five months before she developed the strength of faith to tell her daughter and son-in-law about her conversion. “After saying only a few words about Jesus, both her daughter and son-in-law immediately began to violently criticize her,” the local ministry leader said.

Traumatized Refugees Taught to Rely on God

November 25, 2021

A Christian ministry in Greece helped a traumatized refugee mother from the Middle East obtain an appointment with a psychologist, but she also wanted to speak woman-to-woman with one of the ministry’s two directors. The refugee had left her four children, ages 4 to 13, behind. “She left her country running, trying to rescue herself,” the director said. “Her kids didn’t blame her.”

The Power of Scripture Shines in Iraq

November 18, 2021

The pope’s historic visit to Iraq in March presented massive security challenges, with all military and civil security forces taking stringent measures. Soldiers at checkpoints were instructed to seize the cargo of any transport vehicle, and before one major papal event they confiscated local missionaries’ carload of 1,000 Bibles. “The strange thing is that we met several people while walking in the streets carrying the same Bibles that we distribute, and when we asked them, they said that they got them from the checkpoint,” a ministry leader said.

Workers Brave COVID-19 Dangers in Latin America

November 11, 2021

“We have had to see people die and go with the Lord, including local missionaries from our ministry, and we’ve comforted many loved ones,” the leader of a ministry based in Colombia said. Christian workers in Colombia and other parts of Latin America have become soldiers in the fight against COVID-19, with some dying in the effort to save others physically and spiritually. “We thank God that up to now He has helped and supported us in everything,” the leader said, “despite difficult circumstances and harsh experiences.”

Christians in Vietnam Count High Cost for Faith

November 4, 2021

Invited to a local missionary’s house for dinner with other Christians in Vietnam, Thuan was surprised when they were somehow warm, fun and friendly without the drinking or opium-smoking common in his village. “He had heard the gospel from the local missionary many times, but he didn’t like hearing it,” the leader of a native ministry said. Thuan could not know that accepting the dinner invitation would set him on a journey to prison.

Despairing Afghan Refugees Find Aid and Hope

October 28, 2021

Taiba and her two young children arrived at the office of a Middle East-based ministry exhausted, hungry and destitute after fleeing a Taliban raid on their home in Afghanistan. They have lived the nightmare that tens of thousands of other Afghan refugees are trying to avoid. Witnessing the execution of her father and the abduction of her husband, she and her children had to leave home, town and country with only the clothes on their backs.

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Supply Disaster Relief

Gospel Creates Lives Peruvians Never Imagined

Tears of Desperate Mother in North Africa Turn to Joy

Dream Haunts, Helps Save Refugee in Middle East

Widowed Christian in Africa Persecuted for Her Faith

Schoolteacher in Vietnam Leaves Old Life Behind

Gospel Moves in Kenya in Spite of COVID-19

Gospel Grows in Laos Despite Opposition

Traumatized Refugees Taught to Rely on God

The Power of Scripture Shines in Iraq

Workers Brave COVID-19 Dangers in Latin America

Christians in Vietnam Count High Cost for Faith

Despairing Afghan Refugees Find Aid and Hope

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