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Stories from the Field

  • A Key in Small Hands

    Rachel Chimits

    Our partners in Asia are working together to make sure that children have access to educational opportunities as part of loving their communities.

    During the height of the pandemic in Asia, some children approached World Challenge’s partners and told them, We want to keep learning. Our schools are closed, and we do not have books. We’re bored staying at home.” 

  • Giving Up the Streets

    Rachel Chimits

    One young man experienced the transformation that only Christ can bring that took him off the streets and back to his childhood home.

    “I spent over five years as a street child in Nairobi and Mombasa, in Kenya,” Moses Ogutu wrote for Young African Magazine.

  • Healing Both Heart and Home

    Rachel Chimits

    A girl who seemed both lost within herself and separated from every outside connection has awakened to faith and new life.

    Lenka* was 14 years old when she was brought to the Ehikirezi center, World Challenge’s partners in Burundi. A local administrative leader had found her on the street. As soon as the team saw her, they began praying. It was clear they would need wisdom and a gentle hand with this poor girl.

  • Changing From the Inside Out

    Rachel Chimits

    God’s redemption and transformation of one man who was considered ‘hopeless’ by his neighbors has begun to change his entire village.

    Kenya is making headway toward reducing severe poverty in their nation, working steadfastly toward their people have more opportunities. While some are worried that this work might become easily undone, the upward climb has brought great hope to many locals.

  • Stepping Out Onto a New Road

    Rachel Chimits

    World Challenge’s partners in Lithuania are helping families in need find hope and food in the middle of what has been a very challenging season.

    The Union of Pentecostal Churches of Lithuania support a feeding center in their city. Particularly in this current season, food aid is extremely important.

  • Russia, the Virus Year and a Dream

    Rachel Chimits

    Our partners live in a nation well acquainted with hard work and unrelentingly tough circumstances, but they are also seeing God’s grace and provision in miraculous ways.

    Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia has reported extraordinarily low mortality rates. A group of doctors, however, have been creating a “memory list” of colleagues’ names who have died from the virus, despite official figures saying otherwise.