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.

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.

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.

Church leaders in India are listening to God’s direction as they care for their neighbors and spread the good news about Christ. 

God is using a Bible school and widows to bring healing, new businesses and renewed life to communities in Uganda. 

“Due to years of war and disease, the number of widows and fatherless children in Northern Uganda is extremely high,” the ministry team at Terebinth shared.

Pastors and church leaders in India are witnessing God’s miraculous works as World Challenge teams help them disciple new believers. 

Rabhya* was confronting with a terrible possibility in her life. Her husband had been diagnosed with tuberculosis and had become very ill.

God is consoling the broken hearts of those who have lost loved ones and giving them hope for the future.

Rana* arrived at a conference held by World Challenge’s partners, and she sat and wept the entire time. Concerned, members of the team approached her and asked her what had happened. Tearfully, Rana explained that her husband had died only eight months earlier.

The gospel is bringing change and healing to a war-torn country through people’s hearts, minds and communities. 

World Challenge’s partner in Bosnia, Marko, has been working for years to help heal the scars caused by the Bosnian War in 1995 and then the Bosnian Spring in 2014.