Mission Update Archive | World Challenge

Widows’ Fund—God’s Promise Fulfilled to the Widows and the Fatherless
North America | United States of America | Worldwide: 5.1.05

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....More

Camp Hope—A New Start for Women and Children in Need
North America | United States of America | Worldwide: 5.1.05

Camp Hope is an 18-month discipleship ministry for women with life-controlling problems such as drug and alcohol addiction, homelessness, and abusive relationships. It is a place where women and their children can receive healing and restoration from past wounds and hope for the future through Christ.

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Honduras 2004 — Medical Outreach to Prisons and Orphanages
Central America | Honduras: 6.1.04

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.

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Bringing the hope and healing of Christ to addicts worldwide

For forty years, the ministry of Teen Challenge has been a beacon for the power of the gospel, transforming the lives of drug addicts and alcoholics worldwide.

As founder of Teen Challenge in Brooklyn, New York, in 1958, I never could have imagined how the Lord would use this ministry. From New York City, Teen Challenge spread across America, where there are now more than 200 centers.

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Joshua House — A Home for Children in L'viv Ukraine
Europe | Ukraine

These precious children grew up in poverty. All came from broken or destroyed families. Some were beaten to bloodshed many times. Others were molested, sold as slaves, offered for rape, or forced to beg on the streets. Many witnessed the murderous deaths of siblings or a parent, and some were threatened with death themselves. Incredibly, most of these things happened by the hand of their own parents.

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