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HIV/Aids and Covid-19 have affected so many people. The awful outcome of these viruses is that many more children have been left as orphans with no hope of acquiring an education. In addition, many people lost their jobs and are unable to afford food. We had to come out and demonstrate the love of God to the people by giving them food while encouraging them to put their trust in the Lord. We are also facing many other challenges which include inadequate funds for helping the orphans and needy, carrying out evangelism, and developing [...]

Our work to build a prayer room that fuels prayer and worship in South Africa began more than two years ago when we jumped into partnership with Fire & Fragrance (YWAM) in South Africa.  God gave a pioneering team Ezra 3 as a foundational passage for the mission's base.  The mandate of Ezra 3 is to build an altar to minister to the Lord as the first assignment.  The restoration of a people and a nation must begin here. Today a team of missionaries and local believers gather every morning for worship & prayer.  But [...]

Kurkai is a town in Liberia where the only safe drinking water for more than a decade was from a well several hours’ walk away. The round-trip – through isolated and potentially dangerous forests – took so long that by the time the women of Kurkai returned home with water, it was time to start preparing dinner. The only sources near Kurkai were a hand-dug well that wasn’t deep enough or properly sealed to keep out sewage and other contaminants, and a nearby river whose water was equally unsafe for humans. When townspeople relied on [...]

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. Just [...]

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 to [...]

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 of [...]