• Redemption illustrated

    Victor Barbella knows all too well the havoc drug abuse causes in the lives of the men he ministers to at Nueva Viva y Paz.

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  • Filling big holes

    Doing dental work in a plastic lawn chair in poor light in a dusty village isn't as fun as it sounds -- but love for people keeps Don and Peggy Orth doing it year after year.

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  • Fighting steep odds

    The people of El Rejón, a mountain village in south-central Guatemala, have a lot of odds stacked against them -- poverty, discrimination and unemployment. That makes Mission Impact's Hector Flores all the more determined to introduce them to the same God who gave him hope many years ago. 

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  • Threads_of_Hope

    What began as a simple gift to a woman trying to stay out of prostitution has turned into a nonprofit business supporting 50 impoverished families in the Philippines. 

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  • Emptiness in their hearts

    A full-time minister in Indonesia, Chazali knows the stakes involved in serving Jesus there -- the threats he's endured the past few years prove it.

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  • Getting outside the walls

    Karl Steinbrinck has a solution for people in Green Bay, Wis., who don't know where to serve inside the church: Join him outside.

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  • Young servants

    A group of young people from Wisconsin discovered that serving others was worth every bit of money and energy they put into it.

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  • Joy finally came

    Intense suffering gave way to a fresh relationship with God through Jesus Christ for a woman in northern Sumatra who had lost just about everything.

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  • Hard life with hope

    Empowering Lives International is helping children and youths in Sudan make new lives out of the ashes of a debilitating civil war. 

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  • AIDS in Colombia

    Much like Mother Teresa did with the outcasts of India, one ministry in Bogota, Colombia, fights against the stigma of AIDS by caring for the disease's victims in their dark last days.

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  • Seizing God's moment

    Ministers in Indonesia are watching God work as they take advantage of the opportunities He has given them to present the Gospel to Muslims.

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  • Visions of Multiplication

    A dream of a pastor comparing ministry to math was just one sign that confirmed one missionary's call to reach the Muslims of his native people group.

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  • Jesus in Indonesia

    A courage to spread the Gospel under constant threat of retribution characterizes missionaries all over Southeast Asia--and Indonesia is no exception. 

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  • Rattling Cages

    Zak and Becky Alwin are used to hearing the stunned silence before their hip-hop shows start -- and watching God work afterwards. 

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  • Northern bush minister

    Lowell Fox knew how to relate to the rural folks of Upper Michigan--maybe that's why his ministry to them bore such fruit.

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  • Reaching rural unreached

    Lowell Fox's "Samaria" was the logging and mining villages of Upper Michigan in the 1960s. 

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  • Spring break in the city

    Students participating in the City Lights program in St. Louis got a lot more than they bargained for with the workload at their ministry sites and the fresh perspectives they gained. 

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  • Passion for poor mothers

    Shiphrah Birthing Home gives poor mothers in Metro Manila the knowledge and support that their peers can't and hospitals often won't. 

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  • Shiphrah Directives

    Caring for poor people because they're created in the image of God -- it was Christ's mission statement, and it's Shiphrah Birthing Home's, too. 

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  • Daughters of Abraham

    As Sierra Leone struggles to recover from 11 years of civil war, pastors like Emmanuel Conteh struggle to brighten the darkness that war left in its wake. 

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  • French Revolution

    Many missions researchers are predicting a spiritual reawakening in France as people there struggle to deal with the stark societal changes rising around them since 9-11.

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  • Serving Water in the Desert

    A short-term medical team from central Wisconsin finds just how big the demand is for quality health care in Lima's lower-class Condevilla community. 

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  • To Make a Happier Camper

    Elijah Bible Camp serves kids in rural Michigan who might not otherwise hear the Gospel -- or be able to afford a week at camp at all. 

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  • Making a Dent in Despair

    Redemption Ranch gets kids with all kinds of stories from all over the Philippines. They have one thing in common -- they all needed a new place to call home. 

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  • Lighthouse Girls Home

    Thousands of abandoned girls roam the streets of Metro Manila. Ang Bahay Parola hopes to change the lives of a few of them for the better.

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  • Asia Undercover

    Two missionaries travel to Tajikistan searching for a short-cycle church planting team. 

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  • Orphanage Moves Kids

    Pacific Mission Aviation's Bahay Kalinga orphanage is small, but space there isn't the point--it's finding kids good homes ASAP. 

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  • Mercy With Wings

    Pacific Mission Aviation's air ambulance outreach can land it in some pretty grim situations -- just the kind of situation to show Christ's love the most. 

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  • Love With Teeth

    Medical Relief International works with existing ministries to offer dental and medical care in places where it's usually unaffordable. 

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  • Buhay Basketball

    Buhay Sports uses basketball to share the Gospel with fans who might not otherwise want to hear it.

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  • Buhay Business

    Buhay Sports is more than a basketball ministry. It's also a support generator for Filipino pastors desperately in need of it. 

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  • Making Paradise Better

    Rolando and Teresa Atienza have forged a relationship with the Muslims of Boracay that defies stereotypes and headlines. 

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  • Living by Faith

    Rolando and Teresa Atienza went to their new mission field with no support, no local friends and no church. What God has done with their ministry since validates their faith. 

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  • Sowers

    Sowers Intl. doesn't need hyped-up multimedia to present the Gospel. In fact, it is far more effective without it. 

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  • God Sightings in Svitavy

    Called and Sent Columnist Dan Lupton is seeing God's hand in virtually every facet of his new mission in the Czech Republic. 

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  • SGA Snaphots

    God is changing broken lives in Russia, even lives that once looked hopeless. 

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  • Life in HEC

    When Mi Amor Dayap looks at her classroom full of former dropouts, she doesn't see their mixed-up pasts. She sees leaders in waiting.

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  • Hope in Agdao

    What House of Jubilee offers teenagers like Gary Bernadas is more than a place of refuge -- it offers a whole new way of life. 

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  • Living Stones

    Living Stones Orphanage grew out of a missionary's near-death experience. If new financial supporters aren't found soon, things don't look so good for the ministry, either.

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  • Unwanted Child

    The people who run Nehemiah's orphanage love him, but can't keep him. Nobody else wants him. What's a 6-year-old cerebral palsy victim to do?

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  • Murderer to Missionary

    Eduardo's turnaround from killer to Christ-follower tells the story of God's power to change a life -- a story he hopes will transform many other lives, too. 

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  • Ultimate Forgiveness

    Eduardo and his wife didn't have to forgive the boys who attacked their daughter. But for the sake of peace and their testimony to their people, they did. 

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  • Superkids

    Superkids Bible School doesn't just give kids a fun Saturday morning and a healthy lunch--it shows them the path to a new life in Jesus. 

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  • Village Handcrafters

    Village Handcrafters creates more than high-end paper and soap--it creates hope for the 15 families who have employees there and for the churches it supports through its revenues.

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  • Footprints in the Mud

    A muddy trail between a nameless squatter villlage near Batangas, Philippines, and a ministry center tells the tale of Christ meeting the deepest of needs. 

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  • Reconciliation Part 3

    Biblical reconciliation is a process--one that begins with moving into a relationship with your former enemy. 

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  • Reconciliation Part 2

    As unrest in the Middle East rages, Musalaha works to forge relationships between Messianic Jews and Palestinian Christians that can lay the groundwork for the reconciliation the region needs so badly.

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  • Reconciliation

    Reconciliation in the Middle East might seem like an unattainable goal, but believers in the Messiah are coming together under the Cross in some life-changing situations.

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  • Saving Moses

    A Good Samaritan pulled baby Moses out of a drainage ditch in January. Today he's one of 25 children at New Faith Family Children's Home whose lives are being transformed.  

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  • Hope in Hamtramck

    Faye Grant was "on a roller coaster ride straight down" until she met members of Acts 29.

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  • Love Children Home

    The orphans at Love Children Home near Yangon know how to embrace God as the Father he wants to be to everyone. 

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  • Cutting Through The Past

    Young people from tough backgrounds don't want handouts, they just want the little push they need to get ahead, Thomas Grant Jr. says. And he's living proof. 

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  • Call to Svitavy

    The call to serve as a missionary can come in ever-more-urgent waves as God pulls you closer to your final destination.

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  • Asia Compassion

    Drs. S.V. Kamcindal and Bill Greiser have formed a model cross-cultural partnership with the Asia Compassion Project.

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  • Christian Hip Hop

    Zak and Becky Alwin break all kinds of stereotypes with their hip-hop music ministry--and that's before they start spinnin' the tunes. 

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  • Gospel Bike Trek

    A group of teenagers biking across southwestern Russia didn't bargain for the kinds of miracles God did during their journey. 

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  • Many Ministries

    The Asia Compassion project is passionately committed to spreading the Gospel through medical clinics -- also literature, summer camps and a retreat center.

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  • Grace Is Sufficient

    A young man and his parents found out just how faithful God is to people who pin all their hopes on Him when they started their small orphanage. 

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  • Jungle Dentist

    What can a retired dentist and his wife do with a mobile dental unit and a little courage? A mouthful of good, that's what.

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  • Russia's Vast Harvest Fields

    The world's largest country geographically also presents some large obstacles for missions work. But those obstacles are getting cleared.

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  • Buddhists in Russia

    Breakthroughs in the Russian province of Kalmykia reveal how God is working in one of the most unreached sectors of the largest country in the world. 

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  • Muslim wake-up call

    When David Arzouni says miracles are happening among Muslims and that the Western church needs to wake up to it, he knows of what he speaks.

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