Oasis in the Desert
Gorom Gorom, Burkina Faso is close to the Sahara Desert. It's very hot with a dry, desert-like climate. The people are impoverished, and water is scarce and hard to find.
Read MoreGorom Gorom, Burkina Faso is close to the Sahara Desert. It's very hot with a dry, desert-like climate. The people are impoverished, and water is scarce and hard to find.
Read MoreIt was a double portion of blessing! Not only did you help meet a HUGE food need in Kenya, but the effort united the region's pastors—many of whom did not trust or endorse each other.
Read MoreLikuchira is a poor, rural village in Malawi. Previously, its residents walked a very long distance to fetch dirty, contaminated water from hand-dug wells and open streams. Many villagers had gotten sick or died from drinking the filthy water.
Read MoreYesli's first birthday was just a few days away when we met, but her hair was falling out instead of growing. She was also retaining fluids and suffering from kwashiorkor, a form of severe malnutrition mostly affecting children from poor nations who eat lots of carbs and little protein.
Read MoreWater was a huge problem for the people of Kwaria, an impoverished village in South Sudan. There is a growing church-planting and disciple-making movement among the Toposa ethnic group who live here. Christian disciples from this village have started more than 10 Bible study groups in neighboring villages.
Read MoreCOVID-19 has reached Guatemala. Businesses are shut down. Necessities are sparse. While it sounds all too familiar to the crisis those of us in the US and other Western nations are facing, the difference is that in Guatemala, starvation is an immediate threat. Most workers live day to day with their meager earnings. Guatemala already had a high malnutrition rate of 50%, and when suddenly most of the jobs available to the poor are gone, the threat of starvation is immediate, even if many don’t have that emaciated, long-term hunger look we’re accustomed to seeing in places like Sudan, Africa, for example.
Read MoreDo you count your calories? Do you monitor your "average daily allowance," whether it’s plenty of protein or plenty of fresh fruits and veggies?
Read MoreLinda had already become weak and pale by the time her mother reached her…would she make it to the hospital? She didn’t. “Cholera,” we were told.
Read MoreWho eats today and who goes hungry? That’s one of the impossibly hard choices faced by many impoverished families, living on the brink of starvation, each and every day.
Read MoreHongsa District, Laos: Xai, a former policeman, lost his job in 2006. Why? Because he became a believer in Jesus and began telling others about Him.
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