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’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)
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)
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)
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)