missions
The Refugees of Ukraine
The Divine Healer Is Moving
The God of All Comfort
God is consoling the broken hearts of those who have lost loved ones and giving them hope for the future.
Rana* arrived at a conference held by World Challenge’s partners, and she sat and wept the entire time. Concerned, members of the team approached her and asked her what had happened. Tearfully, Rana explained that her husband had died only eight months earlier.
Healing Coming to Bosnia
Lifting Up Ukraine and the Slavic Church
As horrible as the news has been in Ukraine, the church there and abroad is rallying in prayers for the Lord’s mercy and praise to God’s power and providence over even current events.
“This verse has been on my mind the last few days,” one of our partners in Ukraine named Nina said in the wake of Russia’s first attacks.
God’s Hope in Oppressed Communities
The Path Forward
World Challenge’s partners in Kenya are helping abandoned kids create a better future.
Joshua was very young, probably not yet a teenager, when he was abandoned to live on the streets of Kenya’s capital city. Sadly, that’s not uncommon. It’s estimated that there are as many as 300,000 kids living on the streets in Nairobi and other big cities across the country. Those kids lead difficult lives. Consistent meals are hard to come by, and fights and violence are very common.
Great Physician of Body and Soul
A Place at Home
World Challenge’s partners in Kenya are providing refuge for girls threatened with forced child marriage.
For many young girls in parts of Kenya, the questions of who and when they marry is not up to them. A legal battle against child marriage has been fought for decades in Kenya. Underage marriage was banned in 1990 and was more heavily criminalized by a law passed in 2014, but that has done little to stop the practice.