Marlyn lived most of her life in a garbage dump community. Many who live there pick through the trash to find anything that can be recycled. Marlyn was a leader of a church plant in her community. When Marlyn lost her life to COVID-19, her church began to dwindle in numbers due to discouragement. With only four people left, the congregation began contemplating shutting the church down.
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Born with club foot and deformed hands, Margaret started life abandoned at a church in Uganda. Many attempts to track down her parents or relatives were unsuccessful. They simply didn't want her.
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Can you imagine the challenges of not only living with the debilitating effects of leprosy, but also having to sleep on a floor of volcanic lava rock with little to cushion your ravaged body? Such is the plight of a community of leprosy patients, many of them aging. They live outside Goma, DR Congo, on top of the hardened aftermath of a volcanic eruption that occurred several decades ago. Much of the city was covered by the lava flow, causing many to move or rebuild in innovative ways.
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In Goma, DR Congo, the community of internally displaced persons where Heaven's Family's Refugee Ministry is working is so thankful for your love and compassion. You've helped provide lifesaving necessities through your support! The many families and children have this message for you.
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High in the mountains of China, among the A-Che people, there lives a 60-year-old lady named Wang Chung Lam. When she was 25 years old, she married into a family from a far-off village. Ten years later, her husband died. Her family became increasingly poor. She married another man who became part of her family (as opposed to her moving to his hometown). They were unable to have children.
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A couple years ago, I had the pleasure of being introduced to Ketty Adoc. What astounded me most was her odds-defying, horrific story of survival and perseverance.
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Pictured here is Chan—a microloan beneficiary. While many people and businesses around the world have struggled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chan's business of raising and selling chickens has continued to thrive, thanks to the microloan that you helped provide him!
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Because of COVID-19 and other security concerns, our team working with Tibetans has had to conduct several mini-camps in different villages instead of one centralized outreach camp. By spreading out in this way, the effort has impacted 120 Tibetan young people, ages 12 to 24. Eight students in their early twenties had never heard anything about Jesus Christ before this camp. By the end of the camp, they had heard the whole story, all the way from creation to the resurrection!
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The women who find healing at the Women's Hope Center in the DR Congo are single, elderly, with and without children, widowed or abandoned. They have one thing in common: they all arrived destitute with no hope, but are trying to learn skills to support themselves and their families.
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