In August 2005, a team from World Challenge went to Nicaragua as part of a week-long medical outreach in the capital city Managua. The team included a doctor, nurse, and five volunteers. While in Managua the World Challenge team partnered with Clínica Amor en Acción (Love in Action Clinic). Many on the World Challenge team and even some of the clinic staff had no previous medical training. Despite inexperience, God is faithful in equipping those that He calls. All it takes is a willing heart.

While we live in comparitive comfort and luxury here at home, hundreds of thousands of children throughout the world are starving — they hunger not only for physical sustainance, but for the true Bread of Life and for love. The longing in their hearts goes deeper than we can even imagine…

Every Tuesday and Friday mornings, my healthy teenage sons wake up, get dressed and take the trash cans from our garage and place them on the side of the street. Later that morning, a truck comes by and picks up the garbage and we never see it again.

A team of seven people led by Dr. Gene Smith traveled to Honduras from March 15 through April 3 for a medical/missions outreach. The team, which was joined by five American missionaries in Honduras, included Dr. Smith and his wife, two registered nurses, a school teacher, a business executive, a contractor and a teenager heading to the Air Force in June.

The team set up medical outreach clinics at the orphanage in the Valley of the Angels, on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, as well as in various prisons, and on the island of Utila. The team spent twenty days in Honduras.

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.