Stories from the Field

While our partners were addressing a community’s need for water, God brought other needs to their attention too. 

In Macedonia’s capital city, Skopje, many public squares and parks are marked by beautiful sculptures of mothers, fathers, daughters and sons. Two of my favorites are purportedly Aleksandar and his father.

World Challenge’s partners are holding pastor and youth conferences as well as reaching widows and building up the church in South America. 

One of our partners who ministers to a group of churches in Peru sent us this report about how recent events and individual work has been going.

World Challenge’s partners in Peru have felt called to serve one oft-overlooked group of people: the widows of their town. 

One man brought the gospel to a forgotten group of people, and God is transforming their lives and homes with newfound faith. 

Aferdita and Izet are a Roma couple who live in Mbrostar. Most of the Roma people there live in slums, neglected by society and forgotten by the government.

World Challenge’s partners in Nicaragua are continuing to bring relief to victims of Hurricane Eta and Iota who lost everything to the storms. 

In Cambodia, the spiritual seems much closer to the surface of life. Earnest belief in evil spirits and an angry neighbor’s curse runs rampant in popular culture. This mentality was certainly one that Hout Yong carried about the world around him...

World Challenge’s partners are continuing to help families and widows who refuse to leave their homeland, even as it is torn apart by war.

Ludmyla was born in 1949, in the city of Kozyatyn in the Vinnitsa region of Ukraine. She was educated for working at the railway station, which she did for her entire life until her retirement. She adopted and raised one daughter. For thirteen years she has been a widow and took care of her father, a WWII veteran who is in a wheelchair.

God is reaching and restoring the lives of widows, one elderly woman in particular, through unexpected means: a posho vegetable shop. 

Terebinth has worked in Uganda for years, helping communities rebuild after years of war and tragedy had torn neighborhoods and families apart.

World Challenge’s partners in Egypt are helping women escape terrible home situations and building up their faith in a heavenly Father who loves them.