We’re thankful for the many opportunities the Lord gave this summer to serve the Syrian refugee and poor local children during our summer English classes. We just concluded all English classes and events for the summer, and now are beginning to look ahead to the upcoming school year! This school year we have over…(Read More)
We can be so busy sometimes we forget to stop and count up what the Lord has done so far in certain areas. Our regular monthly food distribution to refugees and poor locals is one of those areas. We’ve been giving out monthly food aid for years, and it can easily be taken for…(Read More)
We’ve reached the middle of another hot summer and, with that, the middle of another year of English classes for Syrian refugee and local students living in the mountains. This year has been more “normal” than years past when we faced COVID closures or restrictions. We are thankful the Lord brought over 130 students…(Read More)
In the midst of different projects and outreach efforts – including the ongoing Syrian quake relief – one of our most important ministries keeps going quietly in the background. From the very beginning of seeking to help refugees and locals out here, we’ve found that medical assistance is often the #1 requested need, and the…(Read More)
While we’ve still got a lot going on in other areas of relief – such as still coordinating assistance to areas in Syria affected by the February earthquake – work on all our other local projects continues as well! I want to give a brief update on the the Grace Farms project. Our little crew…(Read More)
We’ve had a busy couple of months, and we hope to provide updates in coming weeks summarizing everything going on out here. Specifically, we’ve now had over half a dozen separate relief events and outreaches in cities throughout Syria impacted by the February 2023 earthquake that killed over 50,000 people and left…(Read More)
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)