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Galata Ministries Ethiopia – COVID-19 Crisis Update
Desperate people living in desolate locations have always been the most vulnerable. The people of South Omo, Ethiopia know this is true! COVID-19 placed them in even greater jeopardy! Having lived without clean water and the subsequent health risks, they are now in a desperate fight for their lives. Personal hygiene and proper protective equipment and supplies will be their only chance to survive the coming pandemic. They are our friends, family, and ministry focus. Help us get them the life-saving supplies they need. These people, particularly the outlying rural villages and tribal areas where we serve, have limited [...]
Encountering Hope Ministries Canada – COVID-19 Crisis Update
In Winnipeg, we have been practically helping hundreds of newcomer refugee families in the last few years with furniture, jobs, coaching, food, as well as spiritual guidance. Now with this COVID-19 crisis many of these families are being laid off from work or struggling to make ends meet. Many may not even able to collect government assistance because they have not been able to secure full-time work, or they were working cleaning contracts for friends. Many do not have much extra income to pay for rent, food, or safety items. We still get daily requests for meeting practical and [...]
The Stoplight Approach – COVID-19 Crisis Update
Families all over the world are suddenly spending a whole lot more time with each other. That’s great! Until it isn’t. The stress of being out of routine, not being able to spend time with friends, having to do school in a new and different way, perhaps facing financial difficulties, health concerns - these all take their toll. The Stoplight Approach has a lot to offer parents as they learn how to cope with this new family life. Urgent Needs Using the science of how the brain works, how it responds to stress, and translating that into the [...]
Faith Fellowship Baptist Church – COVID-19 Crisis Update
The COVID-19 Crisis here in Vancouver, Canada has impacted many of the refugees, international students, immigrants, and others in our ministry scope. Many have lost jobs that they rely on to pay rent and keep food on the table, and because of their status in the country, they are not eligible for the same relief as Canadians or permanent residents. Urgent Needs In addition to many physical needs that are being raised due to the COVID-19 Crisis, loneliness, isolation, worry for families who are still in their home countries, and stress is affecting those we are ministering to. [...]
Amazing Grace Missions – COVID-19 Crisis Update
The pandemic has been a disastrous time in the world creating chaos, desperation, hopelessness in every part of human society. Amazing Grace Missions is sympathetic to this situation and is helping and wants to increase its assistance to those in need. We see the desperation and hopelessness in the eyes of the people, at the same time, we give hope to all the people we are helping in this tumultuous times of the uncertainty. Through a personal approach to each one of the members of Amazing Grace Missions, we know their concerns, their fears, their uncertainty about the future. [...]
Faith At Work Network – COVID-19 Crisis Update
COVID-19 Crisis Response Andy Crouch, writing in the Praxis Journal, suggests that “The novel coronavirus is not just something for leaders to “get through” for a few days or weeks. Instead, we need to treat COVID-19 as an economic and cultural blizzard, winter, and beginning of a “little ice age” — a once-in-a-lifetime change that is likely to affect our lives and organizations for years.” We have increased our investment during the COVID-19 ice age, supporting Canadian’s in the workplace. Would you consider partnering with us? Urgent Needs This is a unique opportunity for FAWN to equip and [...]