Help Share Saving Grace in Iran
An elderly woman was in evident pain from an illness she had suffered for six years when native Christian workers visited her. After they had prayed for her for five minutes, she began to feel relief and got better as they continued praying. The workers shared the gospel with her and her adult son, and they accepted Christ’s grace.
Help Bring Gospel Transformation in South Asia
The mother of a Christian family suffering hostilities from neighbors involved in witchcraft became ill and was unable to walk, and when snakes began appearing in her home, she called a special prayer meeting that 20 people attended, including non-Christians.
Help Find, Vet and Evaluate Workers
Bob Finley founded Christian Aid after going overseas as a missionary only to have Christians abroad ask him why he had come; North American missionaries brought government suspicion of foreign involvement on native churches and tended to export their denominations’ internal problems. By contrast, native churches were shining beacons of committed faith.
Send Aid to Desperate Refugees in Europe
Refugees fleeing dangers in the Middle East and Africa rarely find a warm welcome in Europe, and the love of Christ that native Christian workers offer makes a deep impression. Besides the food, clothing, infant care items and other aid they need to survive, the spiritual and psychological support they receive is a salve for weary souls.
Help Bring the Gospel to the Unreached in South Asia
A native ministry provides one year of biblical training to young men and women who wish to engage in full-time ministry, and those who seek further study are sent to Bible colleges. Ministry leaders are training them especially in bringing the gospel to areas where it is unknown.
Help Transform Lives with the Gospel in Togo
A native ministry was able to share the gospel with 3,450 people over the course of six months. Among them was a 19-year-old man who had left school and gone on drinking binges. “During our soul-saving seminar, by the grace of God he was saved and was baptized,” the ministry leader said. “Since then he is now respecting his parents and has stopped drinking; he has gone back to school and is preaching the Good News to his friends.”
Help Send the Salvation Message in Iraq
Native Christian workers have multiple opportunities to share the gospel as they distribute Bibles, tend to the needs of refugees and the internally displaced and bring medical care to the poor. Workers with a native ministry’s mobile medical clinic share Christ daily with those receiving treatment, along with praying with them and providing them Bibles.
Provide Critical Aid to Refugees in Greece
As economic turmoil causes governmental and other programs to fade, more refugees are seeking ways to survive. “The projects and organizations working with refugees are closing one after the other, leading the people to despair and pushing them to leave the country as quickly as they can,” a native ministry leader said.
Send the Message of Eternal Life in China
Native Christian workers found various ways to encourage church members to share Christ amid the pandemic. Some visited with neighbors while going out for mandatory COVID-19 tests, deepening relationships and following the Holy Spirit’s guidance into discussion of the gospel.
Help Plant Churches in Ivory Coast
Local missionaries from a native ministry helped a villager work on his farm, and when his family invited them to dinner at the end of the day, the workers spoke to them about God. “The whole family gave their lives to the Lord,” the ministry leader said. Many Bible studies arise from workers coming alongside villagers in this way.
