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Autistic Children, Abandonment and Appointments With God
Two mothers struggling to raise their children with autism ended up finding strength in God and church community.
“Nothing about autism is easy,” one contributor to Huffpost commented. “You can embrace it; you can find coping mechanisms and you can find small ways to make daily life a little easier. But that doesn't make autism easy.”
Escaping from the Battlefields of Iraq
One woman’s struggle to protect her children in the Middle East has taken them hundreds of miles from home.
ISIS’s reign over Iraq was brutal in the rifts it caused between cultural subgroups and devastation it wrecked on innocents. Civilians were used as human shields; chemical attacks ravaged entire towns; Iraqi soldiers caught in the battles against religious extremists were tortured and executed.
Freedom on Wheels
Without a wheelchair, life can be very hard for those with limited mobility, but some are reaching out to them with a gift that will open new doors and opportunities.
Imagine having to crawl to get anywhere in your home.
Imagine most business owners taking one look at you and shaking their heads, no matter how qualified you were. “No. We don’t have any work for you.”
The Water of Life
Those infected with HIV have many challenges ahead of them, but one of the most basic is the absolutely essential need for clean water.
Rhoda lives in some of the most remote areas of Kenya. During the dry season, “kaskazi” monsoons or hot northeast winds from the Persian Gulf make the normally arid savannahs a veritable dust bowl.
The Great Commission’s Call
Bicyclists in Malawi
God is using World Challenge supporters and trainers to empower pastors in southeast Africa.
World Challenge is based in beautiful Colorado Springs, in the shadows of the Rockies. Almost every time I or my team members hit the hiking paths around our sunny—or frequently snowy—city, we are bound to encounter intrepid bicyclists aggressively challenging the same mountain trails.
The Spiritually Hungry in Lithuania
God is reaching out to those who have lost nearly everything in this small Eastern European country.
World Challenge’s partner churches in Lithuania have a motto in their city outreaches to widows and those trapped in inner-city poverty: Food kitchen ministries must not stop with feeding people.
Eating will temporarily satisfy a physiological human need, but people who come to the church kitchen should get much more.
Life From the Ashes
Loving the Widows of Ukraine
In a culture that traditionally views Christianity as a cult, one church’s work to overcome this has taken the form of food packages.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is wrestling with freedom from the Russian Orthodox Church—which has often been an accessory to Russian political leaders—and trying to transfer its authority to a new archbishop.