• The Ongoing Work in Ukraine

    World Challenge Staff

    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.

  • The Long Road Upward

    World Challenge Staff

    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.

  • Persecuted but Not Abandoned

    Andreas Steffensen

    An Afghan Christian family flees from the Taliban and finds hope in a new place, thanks to World Challenge’s partners in the Middle East.

    When Nelum* discovered that her husband, Amjad*, an Afghan worker and father of three, secretly was reading the Bible every day after work, she was shocked and frightened. How could he risk their future and their very lives studying the book of a banned, foreign religion?

  • An Honest Assessment of ‘Good’ People

    World Challenge Staff

    Although they obviously never met, Sigmund Freud, agnostic and slightly demented psychologist, agreed on one point with the eminent theologian John Wesley: people are terrible.

    Freud made an admirable, life-long habit of responding personally in letters to anyone who wrote him, even if they were not a fan. Pastor Oskar Pfister was a friend of Freud’s, but he also qualified as a critic. While he agreed with some of Freud’s psychoanalytic philosophies, others disturbed him.

  • Blood Given in Love

    World Challenge Staff

    The church in eSwatini rallied to save a girl’s life and then continued to meet a grave need in their nation. 

    Timothy Myeni, the Nkilongo Member of eSwatini’s parliament, bluntly stated to their prime minister on March 31st, “We are living in fear, violence is escalating in this country and we don’t know what will happen tomorrow.”

  • Celebrating the Lord’s Goodness

    World Challenge Staff

    God is blessing our partner in India despite hardships, and they are raising their hands in praise for the lives that he is mending and stitching together. 

    We celebrated with one of our partners in India when he got married at the very beginning of last year. His wife is lovely and a little shy, and they are very happy together.