While the devastation of the Turkey/Syria quake that killed over 50,000 people in February is slowly fading from international news media, the ongoing plight of the millions of homeless and displaced quake victims is still a very present reality for our team. This month the door remained open to send several volunteers across…(Read More)
While our earlier update last week stated we did not currently have an open door to help in any immediate quake-affected areas, a door suddenly opened to help. What a difference a week makes! The relief truck loaded up and preparing to depart to Syria this weekend; thankfully it arrived safely and was unloaded…(Read More)
On the eve of a major winter snowstorm out here, everyone in our mountain area was jolted out of bed around 320am this Monday by prolonged shaking from the earthquake centered in southern Turkey. Despite the distance from here to Turkey, the tremors reached us strong enough to wake almost the entire country and send…(Read More)
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)