“RUN! Run far away!” These words echoed in her mind. It was what her aunt had told her with a final hug a year ago. Amara* was born into a strong religious family, one of seven children, in a West African country. She was adopted by her aunt at the age of five. Her aunt […]
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“And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come” (Matthew 24:14). But what does this testimony look like? In what practical ways can the gospel be proclaimed? Unreached People’s Mission (UPM) in Tanzania, founded by Pastor Williams Yindi on
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In a feat of international collaboration and engineering skill, Leon Amstutz and Rick Brubacher, solar engineering consultants from SonSet Solutions, embarked on a journey to Liberia in June 2024. Their mission was to install a state-of-the-art solar energy array at the Samuel Morris Center (SMC) building which serves as the headquarters for Innovative Education International
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Honduran mountains surrounded him. Poverty bore down on him. Living in an adobe hut with no electricity, no running water, no furniture except for two mattresses, he had the village drunk as his father. His prospects as an adult were limited: picking coffee, 100 pounds a day to earn about 7 USD. For 12–year-old Daniel,
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“Your ground is no good! You will never grow anything there. Go away!” the local people told David, a Tanzanian farmer, now a church planter. Despite their opposition, “he cleared the land, tilled the soil, planted, and his crops grew!” As a result, his respect in the village grew too. And when he planted a
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In 2004, a forum of African Christian broadcasters met in Burkina Faso to find out how they could work together to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ across their continent. As a result of this meeting, Africa by Radio (AbR) was born. AbR is “committed to seeing that every man, woman and child in Africa
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Surrounded by refugees and internally displaced people groups, eight-year-old Janvier and his friends loved playing soccer. One evening, the ball was kicked out of the play area. A young man kicked it back and briefly joined the game. A couple of days later, he appeared again, this time with a new soccer ball, and began
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Furaha1 was devastated. She was grieving because her baby was stillborn. This was the third time. Her husband had now had enough and kicked her out, not wanting to have anything more to do with her. The chaplain stopped by her bed and listened to her. He shared the good news of Jesus Christ, and Furaha
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Kibuye Hope Hospital is located in the Republic of Burundi, a small and poor, landlocked country in Africa bordered by Tanzania, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. With a population of close to 13 million and only about 1,300 doctors, medical care can be difficult to obtain, especially in the rural areas like Kibuye.
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