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Seeking God in a Foreign Land
God is reaching refugees from all camps in Turkey through World Challenge’s partners as these families dream of returning home.
“The Kurds are sometimes called the world’s largest nation without its own independent state.” The Economist reported this spring, “Some 30m or [sic] them are scattered mostly across Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey.
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A Chain of Loss Redeemed
Those who have experienced tremendous loss are finding God’s heart of compassion and healing within the church.
World Challenge’s partners, Triumphant Mercy, in Lebanon met Nadira when she passed in front of their window at the new community center. She stopped and chatted with the center’s workers, asking them what they do. She started to share her grief and hopelessness, so they invited her to join their trauma healing group that had just started.
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Breaking Chains and Addictions
In Lithuania, God is working through the church and his Word to set young people free from the destructive habits that have entrapped them.
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Widows in Ukraine’s War Zone
God’s compassion for women who have lost homes and husbands is being shown to them through the church.
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Survivors of the War
God is reaching those who lost loved ones during the Guatemalan Civil War through a loving church community.
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Healing the Heart and Home
God is redeeming and restoring lives among Peru’s widows through a ministry that is dedicated to loving them and celebrating their wisdom and servant-hearts.
Pictured above are the women who have received Christ this year. World Challenge’s partner in Peru, Calvary La Semilla, is producing fruit; and we are excited watch these beautiful ladies grow in their faith.
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Overcoming COVID-19 Together
Another wave of the pandemic has hit Southeast Asia hard, but World Challenge’s partners are using this as an opportunity to bring the gospel to their neighborhoods.
Cambodia and the rest of Southeast Asia has been hard-hit by both medical and political turmoil in the last few months.
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A True Home on the Runaway Road
God met one young woman in the Middle East on her path running away from her family and home into a sea of economic and social unrest.
Amal was born in a devout Shiite family, one of 10 children. She was raised to rigorously follow her Muslim faith, and her childhood and teen years as a cherished daughter were both happy and uneventful.
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Hidden Tiger, Crouching Crocodile
World Challenge teams are reaching out to those who have crossed the borders of Thailand out of desperation and found themselves caught in even worse straits as a result.
“Escape from the tiger only to meet the crocodile.” —Thai proverb