Zeka Avelino and Anita Tjiwana Blog – Dec 15, 2021

Zeka and Anita’s Children and Youth Ministry: Rundu, Namibia. The covid-19 pandemic has made human contact very difficult. The usual school visits, for Bible studies and fellowship, have been interrupted. Even pre-school in-person learning has been suspended due to increased risk of infection. This has made conducting ministry very difficult, but despite the challenges and uncertainty the pandemic has brought, we have persevered. Laura is one of the vulnerable girls our ministry supports. She is 13 years old and in 8th grade but sadly she has never met her biological father because he refused [...]

Zeka Avelino and Anita Tjiwana Blog – Dec 15, 20212021-12-15T09:52:36-08:00

Bulembu Ministries Blog – Dec 8, 2021

Bulembu Ministries is a unique village with a unique goal, to restore a town and transform a nation. A former mining town, Bulembu is home to more than 350 orphans and vulnerable children receiving full- time care in family homes along with good quality education. Through the help of organizations like the Great Commission Foundation, our children have all of their daily needs met and Bulembu is able to run creative enterprises which provide many jobs to locals and is a source of income for child care. Our vision is to raise the children to [...]

Bulembu Ministries Blog – Dec 8, 20212022-02-14T22:48:26-08:00

Word Made Flesh Sierra Leone Blog – Nov 17, 2021

For the past two years, one of our focuses has been journeying with 15 women who have been prostituted through discipleship and skills training, such as tailoring and beads making training. We have seen God at work in the lives of those women as they are determined to work hard and to choose a better way of life. Also, though most of them are from the Muslim background, many of them have started attending church regularly and are developing a personal relationship with Jesus. We also see God at work in our tutoring program. Not [...]

Word Made Flesh Sierra Leone Blog – Nov 17, 20212021-11-17T09:21:40-08:00

Serve to Empower Africa Blog – Nov 10, 2021

Covid is so far the biggest challenge we have ever experienced. Fortunately, God brought us through, and our partners and donors were not affected and continued to support our ministry activities. The greatest lesson we have learned during the pandemic is that God is always faithful and will never forsake is servants. Serve to Empower Africa is an empowerment ministry for families. We partner with families in need to increase their capacity to walk on their own. We do that by caring for them and offering financial support, business training, and connecting them with [...]

Serve to Empower Africa Blog – Nov 10, 20212021-11-10T10:48:21-08:00

Crossing Cultures International Blog – Oct 27, 2021

City: Global – 33+ Countries with head office in Brandon, Florida Equipping and Multiplying Leaders Globally Crossing Cultures International (CCI) is leading the way in how cross-cultural missions are being done. By equipping and training indigenous pastors and church leaders through the local church, the culture remains unaltered as sound biblical knowledge is imparted through a discipleship relationship. CCI endeavors to equip indigenous church leaders with the biblical knowledge, ministry skills, and personal character in order to become participants in the Great Commission and not just recipients of the gospel. According to the [...]

Crossing Cultures International Blog – Oct 27, 20212021-10-27T08:04:05-07:00

STF – Family Rescue Blog – Oct 20, 2021

Location: Mae Sot, Thailand. The Thai/Myanmar border. What kind of help would you want if you were struggling to provide for your children? Shade Tree Foundation’s Family Rescue Program is about giving hope to hopeless families and preventing child abandonment. Families protect children. We protect families. In this border region, migrant worker, refugee, and hill tribe families live in extreme poverty and struggle with a whole host of injustices that lead to despair, and often, child abandonment. When families are too weak and desperate to protect their own children, their children get hurt. In Southeast [...]

STF – Family Rescue Blog – Oct 20, 20212021-10-19T21:53:25-07:00

Action Felix Blog – Oct 13, 2021

Action Felix is a foundation that focuses on developing a self-sustaining model to support the needs of over 200 abandoned children, now cared for at Caminul Felix. Integrating trades into the model allows Action Felix to provide training and hands-on opportunities to equip the students with practical skills and prepare them to enter the workforce. Children and young adults from Căminul Felix are engaged in various activities offered by Action Felix, such as tailoring, carpentry, hospitality, farming, gardening and auto repairs. Over the years they were able to master new skills, secure good paying [...]

Action Felix Blog – Oct 13, 20212021-10-13T07:28:07-07:00

STF – Family Rescue Blog – Sep 29, 2021

U San Oo was dying, slowly. He had partial paralysis in his legs and several other health issues. His treatment had driven his family into debt, and he worried about the emotional and financial stress that caring for him was causing his wife and children. His older sons now lived in Myanmar and didn’t make enough there to help their parents with expenses. His youngest son had to be taken out of school because they didn’t have enough money to cover the school expenses. Shade Tree Foundation’s Family rescue team began visiting them [...]

STF – Family Rescue Blog – Sep 29, 20212021-09-28T20:48:09-07:00

Faith Hope Love Family Service Association Blog – Sep 22, 2021

Faith Hope Love Family Service Association (FHLFSA) is a not-for-profit charity organization based in Hawassa, Ethiopia. The association is supporting orphans and vulnerable children, youth, economically challenged women and elders. We are supporting the education of children and youth. We are also focused on improving the quality of life of the elderly, and women and their dependents. In addition, we are addressing the issues of sanitation and personal hygiene. Family planning, reproductive health, and prevention of HIV/AIDs and other related diseases has also been included in our work. The school materials, food, medical coverage, [...]

Faith Hope Love Family Service Association Blog – Sep 22, 20212021-09-22T11:51:00-07:00

For Freedom International Blog – Sep 15, 2021

The Ministry of Waiting Learning about sex trafficking stirred my heart with the pain of human suffering while stirring my ambition to seek justice for the oppressed. When I felt called to serve on a newly forming team among the exploited and least-reached in Thailand, there was excitement at the prospect of eventful front-line work. By the time I had been serving with For Freedom International for nearly three years, the dust of my glamourous expectations had settled. In its wake, I discovered something more profound than the imagined whirlwind dramatic liberation; I discovered the ministry of [...]

For Freedom International Blog – Sep 15, 20212021-09-14T22:02:01-07:00