One of our translation projects that began years ago, in early 2019, is coming to fruition now in late 2022. The Lord helped through many setbacks and challenges over these years, and enabled us to now bring to print in recent months the first modern translation into Arabic of the classic Charles Spurgeon devotional “Morning…(Read More)
One of our recent food bag distributions to those on our aid lists While we try to focus any compassion/humanitarian efforts as much on local long-term development as we can, there are times where direct aid in the form of charity can’t be avoided. These are the times where we are providing…(Read More)
Amidst everything else we have going on, sometimes the quiet and persistent work of the women’s sewing project gets overlooked. We have 8 refugee and local women right now regularly sewing a variety of items that we then “purchase” back from them to distribute to needy families. One of the cloth diapers our sewing…(Read More)
While it’s out of the news cycle these days, we are still reminded that this was the year of the global food crisis affecting millions of people worldwide, including our own host country. By God’s grace, we had the Daily Bread Bakery in place right as the global wheat shortages began, with enough…(Read More)
We’re happy to close out this year with another full summer and fall harvest from the Grace Farms initiative. We had over 3 tons of produce again off of the land under production, similar to last year, but now expanded a bit to roughly an acre and a half of terraced rows. While we…(Read More)
We’re thankful to report that the school year began somewhat on time this year. It’s not always guaranteed out here! Most of the EAP kids we help sponsor for school began classes in early October. The photo above is of some of the kids from the younger classes. They’ll likely go late…(Read More)
My apologies for a very crowded headline on this update! It’s hard enough to fit all that’s going on out here into our daily schedules, much less fit it into a small headline. We’re thankful to be serving with a full plate for the Lord. As it’s been said before by…(Read More)
As we head into the end of a hot and challenging summer, we are thankful that the Lord has brought us through thus far! As anticipated in the spring, this summer was marked by a fluctuating bread crisis due to lack of flour available in the markets. Thankfully, right now there’s enough supply from…(Read More)
We are well into the spring of 2022 and the challenges the Lord brings are many! The economic situation in our host country continues to deteriorate. Rapid hyperinflation and wage depression, along with severe supply disruptions of wheat due to the Ukraine war, are putting everyone – Syrian refugee and local alike – into seriously…(Read More)
The stone well at one of the Grace Farms was covered under more than a foot of snow, along with the terraced fields around it! It’s been an unusual winter here in the Middle East. We’ve been hit with wave after wave of chilling weather and had several feet of snow dumped on…(Read More)