How church buildings bring hope to communities
My name is Pastor Gulab … My old life was very bad. Before knowing the Lord, I used to perform witchcraft. I was in witchcraft practice for 13 years. Gulab was born into a tribal family. He remembers being a child when he first heard whispers around the village about...
Urgent: Maria pummels Puerto Rico
One to four months — that’s how long Puerto Ricans are preparing to live without electricity in the wake of Hurricane Maria. With screeching 150 mph winds, Maria is the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in almost a century. And debris left by Hurricane Irma could...
Umuoru Usmuode: The village with no water
The villagers of Umuoru Usmuode in Nigeria were tired. Each morning, the children of the village would venture out with buckets to walk the long, dangerous road to the nearest water source. By the time they filled their buckets from the dirty, shallow stream two miles...
Rebuilding the spirit of a community
When massive earthquakes hit the country of Nepal in 2015, it wasn’t just buildings that were destroyed. Lives were shattered as families suddenly had no place to call home. Jobs vanished as businesses lay in rubble. Children were orphaned. And the church building —...
Two last-minute gifts to solve your Christmas crisis
Here it is: Christmas Eve. Time to sit back with a mug of hot chocolate, relax in the glow of the Christmas lights, and wait for the celebrations to begin … unless, of course, you still have some last-minute shopping to do. But wait! Before you do something drastic...
Every day, I try to live my life in such a way that I accomplish at least one thing that will outlive me and last for eternity.