The story that I'm about to share with you is shocking. It is, however, important that you hear it.
Read MorePicking Up the Pieces After COVID
COVID killed Putra's main source of income—his job. Every day over the past six months, he's awakened to the same haunting question: "How can I feed my family today?" You can end this horrifying cycle for Putra. With a gift of $24, you can help him feed his children—by rebooting his soap shop.
Read MoreRescue Families During COVID-19
If Isaias and the other children don’t receive the proper nutrition early in life, while their brains and bodies are developing, they could face extreme, irreversible mental and physical deficiencies…that is, if they’re fortunate enough to survive.
Read MoreA Farmer Gets a Farm—Finally
This month you helped a farmer. Not an ordinary farmer, however, but a farmer who didn't have any land. Wait, what? How can you farm without land??? You can’t. And that was a problem.
Read MoreSharon’s Story of Survival
A gift of $17 will help Sharon learn the skills she needs to become self-sufficient and care for her son, the product of that rape.
Read MoreDeath by Water
Water is like gold for the villagers who live in rural Kivera, Uganda, because it can become very scarce in the dry season. So scarce, in fact, that violence often broke out at the village’s single borehole when it would run dry each year.
Read MoreThe Gospel Arrives at Mpembe
Today our motorized canoe took us on a two-hour trip downriver, all along a stretch of the Ngkoko where Bomwali people live in small, scattered settlements. During Colonial times, their ancestors fled from their ancestral home village in Congo to escape capture and slavery by European settlers, and they adapted to the isolated life that still characterizes them today. That isolation has kept them beyond the reach of the gospel—until just recently.
Read MoreBomwali Chief Dedicates His Tribe to God
Today I finally reached my first original destination, the small village of Malapa, accessible only via a 30-minute ride in a motorized canoe down the Ngoko River. As our canoe approached Malapa’s riverbank, its citizens were singing and dancing in celebration of our arrival. Just a few months ago, Heaven’s Family’s Safe Water Ministry funded the drilling of a well and installation of a durable hand pump. Before that, the villagers had no option but to drink the muddy, contaminated water of the Ngoko River.
Read MoreThe Road to Moloundou
A major part of the vision of Heaven’s Family is not only to serve the “least of these,” but to serve those who want to serve the “least of these.” The value we try to provide to our donors is to give them an efficient, trustworthy means to invest their hard-earned dollars for the benefit of the world’s poorest people, and particularly the poorest among our spiritual family, and to expand Jesus’ kingdom. We do for our investors what most of them would have a very difficult time doing themselves, and we do it for much less money than they could do it themselves. But it isn’t easy or cheap for us, either.
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