The Stoplight Approach International Association in partnership with Focus on the Family presents a new book launch called Signals on July 19, 2022. If you pre-order off Amazon now, you get a free audiobook prior to the launch! Would you like to improve the emotional intelligence of your kids? Signals offers a simple, relational approach to help you become aware of your emotions, their impact on others, and how to implement this technique in your home, school, or ministry. While we can’t see the brain, it sends signals to us and those around us. [...]

No Money; No Problem! How one poor community came together to sustain their local school. “Development projects come and go as quickly as the weather.” This comment came from the back of the van as we snaked our way through the countryside, and was about as true a statement as you could make about Burundi. Ironically, it was a visit we were about to make that would turn that idea on its head. I was traveling with two of our network members, visiting and encouraging community leaders who were practicing community-centered development. Pulling up [...]

The country of Lebanon is no stranger to crisis. Eighteen years of civil/regional wars plus thirty years of foreign occupation have crippled the government and destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure. Decades of corruption have led to a sharp devaluation of the local currency. Soaring unemployment and political instability are driving more and more families below the poverty line every day. The COVID-19 crisis and the explosion in 2020 that devastated downtown Beirut have only compounded the desperation of the situation in Lebanon. If that was not enough, today, Lebanon hosts the highest population [...]

Agape International Missions (AIM) is doing whatever it takes to end the evil of child sex trafficking, one life at a time. Through a holistic approach of rescuing, healing, and empowering survivors, we see lives transformed by the relentless love of Christ. Over the years, we’ve seen how prayer directly impacts the fight against trafficking. Here are some examples: 2010: Five Cambodian girls arrived in the US to testify against their perpetrator. We prayed for each one that they would be brave and courageous as they testified; for justice and that he be found [...]

Three Peaks Recreational Outreach is an outdoor ministry in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Primarily, we work with young adults who have aged out of government-funded services and no longer have access to the resources they once had. Many of them become trapped in a destructive community of homelessness, mental illness, and substance abuse. We want to break that cycle by building a healthy community that encourages positive self-perceptions and a deep faith that can spur change in their lives. Recently, we launched our second season of outdoor Apex trips! On the first trip we [...]

His Hope Uganda (HHU) is a small organization that began quietly in 2009 to provide sponsorship to 47 Ugandan children in the Jinja District. Since then, the ministry has grown to about 150 children in the sponsorship program. Their goal is to share the hope of Jesus with vulnerable children and their families by providing access to education, health care, and discipleship and to see Ugandan youth transformed by the love of God and living as disciples of Christ. They reach out to communities through child sponsorship, building houses/brick latrines, and providing medical support. [...]

Stephen and Natalija Janz are partnered with families, friends, churches, and Ukrainian missionaries serving in Ukraine and Latvia. Latvians and Ukrainians share a dark history of oppression during the Soviet Union and a desire to support each other and to not let this happen again. Funding raised will be used to join in with the efforts of the Latvians we know and partner with to provide care for people fleeing Ukraine. We are also assisting in providing support and relief to the Korthankes in Ukraine. They are currently receiving and helping Ukraine families logistically and/or [...]

On February 24th 2022, a full scale invasion of Ukraine was launched by Vladimir Putin of Russia. War brings death, destruction, displacement, and every category of suffering with it. Over 40 million Ukrainians are suffering the crushing effects of war, children are experiencing life-altering trauma, many families are being separated from the ones they love. Entire cities are going underground numerous times each day and night to seek cover from seemingly endless shelling and bombing. Guidelight’s international ministry started in Ukraine in 2012 and has grown deep roots among her people. We have loved and [...]

Where we live and work here in Romania is only about 250km from the Ukrainian border - a border that’s now flooded with Ukrainian refugees trying to escape war. Being so close to a war zone is a little bit anxiety-inducing for us Canadians but we're very thankful to be living in Romania, a country in the European Union and NATO, and a very safe area of Romania as well (around 250km from the border to Ukraine and just under 400km from the Black Sea). Life in Romania right now is normal and peaceful and it's [...]