Heaven's Family Stories

Guatemalan Gratitude

Thank you for providing desperately-needed food relief to 275 widows in San Pedro, Guatemala! You’ve shared God’s love with these most vulnerable widows through His provision for them.

04 Feb

Disabled No Longer

Loreen used to walk on her tiptoes, but now, after her surgery, she's excited to be like all the other kids.

Image of Mercy, former victim of Sexual Violence

31 Jan

She slept until some intoxicated men barged in and stole what they wanted: her innocence, her virginity, her future. She was only 15. Oh, the irony—this victim named Mercy was now in deep need of God’s mercy amidst the shame she was forced to carry through no fault of her own. All she had done was to go to sleep.

25 Jan

Frijoles for Friends

We are still sending emergency relief to believers living on a communist island off the coast of Florida. Just recently, you provided food for 130 families suffering from COVID and devastating government lockdowns.

Image of Farming God's Way trainer in Kenya

23 Jan

Fruit That Will Last

Since we trained our partners in disciple multiplication tools at our team summit in Uganda in June, I have been excited to see how Griffin in Kenya has responded. Here is an excerpt from a report he sent me in September.

Image of discipleship training in Zimbabwe

20 Jan

To God be the Glory!

This trip was easily the most complicated trip I've ever booked, with wild price swings and vanishing flights. Also, during the month leading up to this trip, my wife suffered a severe ankle sprain. Her foot continued to swell for a week. It turned out that she had a blood clot in her ankle, which meant many trips back and forth to the hospital. Then 8 days before I left, she tested positive for Covid-19. Pulling double duty at home, trying to prepare for this trip, and trying to maintain a godly attitude all while sleeping on the couch was difficult to say the least. But it was a good reminder that, as the Christian rapper Sevin says, "This faith walk ain’t no cake walk.”