World Challenge Stories

God commands us “You shall be holy, for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:16), but the debate over how to actually accomplish this command has caused Christians a great deal of anguish over the years.

God is working through World Challenge’s partners in Central Asia to help spouses learn how to have healthier relationships with one another.

God is working through World Challenge’s partners in Lebanon to help those who are struggling with the fallout of catastrophic economic failure.

How do we respond to people, sometimes even believers, who seem quite content with their sin and convinced that Jesus is more than happy to ignore all their indiscretions?

World Challenge’s partners in Albania have helped one young man escape the familial patterns of addiction and find new life in Christ.

One sweet woman has long been a blessing to her village where our partners work in Macedonia, and they wanted to find a way to give back to her.

God often permits pain to enter into his children’s lives, and he promises to gloriously transform these moments to joy, but the space of waiting between those two moments can be agonizing.

Stanford University may not have the long history of Oxford or Cambridge, but it’s prestigious and both its professors and students tend to be well-heeled. On campus, they have the grand Memorial Church, which has been called the University’s “architectural crown jewel.”

World Challenge’s partners are working to bring relief to many of the people who have lost their homes and businesses in the recent natural disaster.

God is the only one who can completely change a hard heart, and he has done exactly this in one man who lived wildly and dangerously.

Emanuel Rop lives in the Rift Valley, in an area that borders two tribes called Kipsigis and Luos. He is 45 years old, and nothing about his life these days with his wife and four children would hint of his wild past before meeting God.

God doesn’t guarantee us an easy life anywhere in scripture; in fact, the Bible promises us quite the opposite in many places, so how should we respond to that?