For over forty years World Challenge has been feeding, clothing, educating and meeting the needs of thousands of poor children, orphans and prisoners in strategic areas around the world.

I’ve known personally the sheer joy of bringing food to starving children in Africa. I have been humbled to see God provide life-saving medicines to rural mountain villagers in Peru.

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”

In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a young father walks through the open market in the sweltering heat. It has been difficult for him to find work. His relentless efforts at day labor have earned him less than two dollars a day.

Jewels 4 God International is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering people in need. Their mission is to train faith-based organizations in making and marketing quality handcrafted jewelry to help them become sustainable and to provide viable job skills and professional counseling services for the exploited, marginalized and disenfranchised people with whom they work; assuring their successful reintegration into society, employability, and financial independence.

For close to 150 single-mother families, the World Challenge Widows’ Fund has been the avenue God has used to express His heartfelt love and concern for them and their children. This fund helps to pay the rent before the family is evicted, or the utility bills before they no longer have lights. Yet what these funds really mean to these mothers is that God has not forgotten His promise to care for the fatherless and widows in their time of need.

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They have left homes, families, close friends and financial security. They live in tents, war-torn buildings, African huts, South American jungles, and the most troubled areas of urban poverty. They serve in orphanages and in medical clinics, with street children and with hardened prostitutes.

In May 2005, a team from World Challenge Missions toured the ravaged city streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. We were taken to a section called 'the mile' which the World Health Organization recently labeled as having the highest Aids population of any square mile in the world.

The country Haiti brings to mind poverty, violence and voodoo. However, this is only half the story. God is marvelously at work; churches are being planted, orphanage and clinics are being established and outreach teams are ministering in many cities.