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)
By God’s grace we’ve begun operating a small bakery in our mountain refugee community in recent months. We are slowly increasing our daily bread capacity, but so far have been able to make over 1,100 loaves of Arab bread a week to give to some of the 750 refugees and local poor…(Read More)
We revised our Education Assistance Program (EAP) this year to primarily focus on sponsoring children to attend local Christian-run schools and education programs. If you still want to help sponsor a child for the 2021/2022 school year it is not too late! We have at least 42 kids who still need sponsors. The…(Read More)
Some reading this will already know that we’ve been quietly involved these past months with assisting Afghans trying to flee the country after the bungled U.S. withdrawal that ended August 31, 2021. Since mid-August we have been in daily contact with multiple Afghan families. We have not made this public due to…(Read More)
We are thankful to share that, for the first time in almost two years, our summer English classes are back open again to the community! We had to pause them during COVID last year much to the disappointment of the children. Despite our prolonged closure it seems interest has not abated. We didn’t know…(Read More)
Early this spring, our host country got hit with a true COVID wave. We know several people – all elderly – who died from COVID complications. A large amount of our own refugees we help came down with COVID. Our entire team also contracted COVID, including myself, and had a rough month of it. Thankfully,…(Read More)
The past couple months have been busy! As we’ve wrapped up port blast rebuild projects, we’ve resumed normal refugee relief and our farming projects. We have seen the Lord keep doors open, and also open new doors with new needs to help with. We are also thankful for the abundant provision from the…(Read More)
Yesterday marked the grim milestone of two months since the Beirut port blast shattered thousands of homes and upended the lives of some 300,000 Lebanese residents living in the area. People from our team have been serving the affected Lebanese almost the entirety of those two months since the blast happened. It has been…(Read More)
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Refugee English Classes, Expanding Farms & Ongoing Needs – Summer 2022 UpdateAugust 29, 2022
Heart Attacks, Medical Needs & Bread Shortages – Spring 2022 UpdateApril 27, 2022
Weathering the Storms, Snow and Fires of a Hard Winter – Early 2022 UpdateFebruary 25, 2022
Feeding Refugees Via The Daily Bread Bakery – Winter 2021December 17, 2021
You Can Still Help Sponsor a Child to Attend a Christian School – EAP 2022December 3, 2021
