In drought–stricken Africa, 12 million people are in a life–and–death battle to find enough food. In Haiti, tens of thousands of earthquake victims live in heat–saturated, flood–prone tents.

For the past forty years, World Challenge has obeyed God's call to care for the poorest of the poor and to proclaim his Good News to unreached multitudes.

A woman once reached out and touched Jesus as he was walking by. In response, Jesus healed her, restoring her body to health after a lifetime of suffering.

Thanks to your prayers and generous support, there are now 38 local pastors serving, evangelizing and planting churches among Cambodia's unreached peoples. Another 9 pastors, fully supported by this ministry, have recently been launched into northern Cambodia to plant churches.

What if Cambodia, once a genocidal pit of violence and fear, were to know just how much Jesus loves its people?

The task God has assigned to us here at World Challenge is to bring God’s love to the poorest of the poor around the globe.

“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans in their affliction”

The first 10 years of young Chey’s* life were nothing but spiritual and emotional despair. Born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia he grew up illiterate and was quickly moving toward the traditional curse of the uneducated poor: begging, stealing, or selling himself to simply survive one day to the next.

Chey’s family was forced to live on less than a dollar a day, leaving Chey hungry, undernourished and lonely. He spent the first ten years of his life virtually without being touched. His soul longed to be touched by love.