Stories from the Field

Many people, especially the working poor in Central Asia, are faced with an impossible conundrum of safety versus provision as COVID-19 quarantines freeze cities.

Social distancing and quarantine in India may be what’s ordered, but for many families, it’s simply not possible.

World Challenge partners in Uganda are working to help those who have escaped Kony’s reign of terror find healing and new life in Christ.

Esther was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in 1994. Three years before, Joseph Kony had launched his brutal campaign supposedly to defend Acholi tribal rights in Northern Uganda, leaving a wake of thousands murdered or mutilated.

One girl was stolen from her birth family and left searching for a true home until she entered World Challenge’s partner-church in Albania.

Albania in the 1970s, caught under the boot of Enver Hoxha and his sharply Stalinist ideas of government, was not a friendly place for those who did not match the mold of mainstream society.

God commands us to lay our worries before him, and many brothers and sisters around the world are doing just that as the coronavirus spreads. Let’s join them and pray!

Several of our partners around the world have reached out to World Challenge and asked for prayer during this COVID-19 pandemic.

In Cambodia, our partners have been notified that all schools are now closed, and the country’s New Year celebrations are canceled.

God gave one woman and her family freedom from a curse that was consuming them with fear and conflict.

Lately, you’ve been having terrible headaches. You schedule a doctor’s appointment; she asks a lot of questions, examines your head and then suggests that they run a few more tests.

This past December, we shared our Lebanese partners’ situation and prayers as they navigated the uprising that was beginning to shake their country.

Now, over two months later, the pains and protests wracking the country seem to have only intensified, and solutions seem nowhere in sight as Lebanon’s economy bottoms out.

One sweet little girl came to World Challenge’s partners after having endured terrible and unusual circumstances at home.

Most children don’t expect their parents to start needing help and care until well into their golden years.

The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College found that the vast majority of adult children don’t begin providing care for their parents until they’re well into their own 60s and 70s.

World Challenge’s partners in Ohio work with inmates in large transfer institutions before they are moved to other prisons. The team offers these men and women sermons and lessons about who God is and how our lives change as a result of walking in the ways God wants for us.

God miraculously saved one man from death and then used World Challenge’s partners to help him find a new life in Christ.

Ly Lourn, at 38 years old, was like many Cambodian men in his village.

Despite the tragedy surrounding them, believers in the Congo church are discipling and developing their younger members.

In Romans, Paul wrote with fervor and great detail about how believers ought to care for one another as part of our service to God.