Stories from the Field

One woman in Nicaragua has given up everything to love others, and World Challenge’s partners were able to bless her with a gift she never expected.

God is reaching new people every month despite the conflict and unrest in Myanmar through World Challenge’s partners whose labor is born from a true passion for the lost.

The gospel is reaching lost souls, and the church is growing in some of the most hostile environments in the world thanks to God’s faithfulness.

World Challenge’s partners in South Asia are seeing much fruit with community health evangelism ministries in towns that are normally closed to the gospel.

World Challenge’s partners in Peru are reaching out to widows to share the gospel of a God who will never abandon them.

World Challenge’s partners are helping others see how setting boundaries can be not only loving but also an opening for the gospel.

Many believers assume that relationship boundaries are unloving and therefore unchristian. A popular idea is that self-sacrificial living should mean having no defenses or lines that shouldn’t be crossed, but it ignores many verses in the Bible that order us to have discernment and enforce consequences for sinful behavior.

World Challenge’s partners in India are working to help widows and their daughters discover the hope and purpose God has for their lives.

Amara* was crushed when her husband died from COVID-19 in April. She was left to support her two children as well as their grandmother alone. As if the grief and being the home’s sole source of income weren’t enough, she also had to contend with enormous medical bills from her husband’s hospitalization.

God is moving miraculously in the churches of Southeast Asia as a testament to his glory as many people come to faith in him.

New believers are finding physical freedom through faith. One pastor, who is a World Challenge partner in Southeast Asia, shared that he and his church have witnessed incredible miracles during home visits. One involved a woman named Miss Toon who is 50 years old.

The two hurricanes that hit Nicaragua in November 2020 did not loom large in the news, tragically overshadowed by the world’s occupation with the pandemic.

“We had totally lost hope…we lacked God’s vision for our society, we dwelled in misery thinking God had abandoned us.  But now we know through CHE…there’s light at the end of the tunnel.” —Silvia Ogwal, volunteer in Orum

World Challenge’s partners are offering help and hope to widows in the war-torn villages of Ukraine.

In many parts of Ukraine, like other cultures around the world, women who have been widowed rely on family members to care for them. Sadly, that family support system is not always in place. Some widows have no family at all, and others have relatives who live too far away or are unable to take care of them.