Posted by What can we do in a stay-at-home world where volunteer mission teams are all cancelled? How can we disciple people effectively in a world of virtual connections? How about a virtual missions trip? We prayed for how God could use us during this Covid-19 stay-at-home time. The idea of leading a virtual mission trip with…Read more »
Posted by While the world concluded the celebration of Easter amid the Covid pandemic, a series of tornadoes crushed numerous communities across the southeast, leaving many residents who were heeding the Covid ‘stay at home’ orders, now with no place to stay. One particularly hard hit community was Ooltewah, TN, near of Chattanooga, and home to Two…Read more »
Posted by EFCA ReachGlobal Crisis Response began engaging the Corona virus in January on hearing initial reports of hospitals being overwhelmed in China. We were quickly able to mobilize desperately needed masks and gloves from our ministry center and ship them to partners working in the most impacted areas. With the virus now close to home in…Read more »
Posted by Sam described it as a “hopeless situation”. The first floor of his daughter Stephanie’s home had been flooded by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. But it had never been gutted. When our Crisis Response team showed up to look at the house last year they couldn’t believe what they saw. All the furniture was damaged and…Read more »
Posted by While we spent Christmas day enjoying family, eating special foods and giving gifts, our Brothers and Sisters in the central Philippines were huddled together under the ravages of Typhoon Phanfone. The storm’s 120 mph winds blew across the islands of Leyte and Samar for 24 hours, peeling apart roofs and homes, felling power lines and…Read more »
Posted by Three weeks ago, unusually heavy rains began inundating the Ubangi River, in a region of central Africa where Reachglobal has had long term influence. And the rains have not stopped, so the flooding is spreading. Over 40,000 people are now displaced, 14,000 homes destroyed, many more standing but uninhabitable. Worse, lost crops and flooded fields…Read more »
Posted by Sunday, August 25, 2019 marked the two year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey hitting Texas. Most anniversaries are something we celebrate. So do we celebrate this anniversary joyfully for those who were impacted and have adjusted to the ‘new normal’ the follows tragedy, or mourn for those who lost everything and are still stuck trying to recover?…Read more »
Posted by We met with Pastor Issac in his small home for breakfast to start the day. He shared about a displaced peoples camp that he visited a few weeks before, about the difficulties facing the people – the flood washing away their homes and all their possessions and ruining their farm fields. He shared about their…Read more »
Posted by My friend Roberto, a Brazilian Free Church missionary living in Beira, Mozambique messaged me last week with a sense of despair following his trip to a remote areas. He wrote, “The women (pictured above) lost everything. That boy was dragged by the current some km down the river, and was saved by a pile of branches…Read more »
Posted by I am unabashedly in love. This love is something I never realized was out there for me. Do I love my kids? Absolutely! They are loving and caring adults now and have a compassion for others that amazes me. Grandchildren? Oh Yeah! Watching them grow in their relationships with God has been one of the…Read more »
