Transformation in Tanzania
As our team travels from village to village, a common theme we hear is that we are making history. The village leaders say that the problem of disease and lack of clean water are now history in their villages. It is a problem of the past that the villagers are glad to leave behind. With […]
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Bringing True Life
In a village where you have to put chemicals into dirty water to make it drinkable because cleaner water is 15 kilometres away, it is no surprise that providing a deep-capped water well becomes a major event. That is what happened in Hountakon, Benin. The entire village came out to watch the installation of a […]
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Building Sustainable Futures
While done with good intentions, there have been water systems set up for developing countries that fail to sustain themselves – sometimes breaking down just a few years later, according to a 2004 report from Rural Water Supply Network – leaving villagers without clean water once again. As a result, GAiN’s Water for Life Initiative (WFLI) Sustainability […]
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Embracing the Unexpected
Team member is blessed by the change in plan – As someone who has been on mission trips every year for six years, Jenny knows that you should not merely expect the unexpected – you should embrace it. “Really be open to change and expect that what you’re thinking might happen, might not happen. If […]
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A Special Announcement
I trust that you had a good time of rest over the Christmas holidays with your family and friends. But more importantly that you had opportunity to celebrate God’s love for you and your family, through the sending of His Son Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. A new year is before us, and I […]
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Witnessing word and deed work together
“I think I had a romanticized idea of what the trip was going to be like,” Kyra admitted about the LIFE Team to Benin that she participated in last May. She was ready for a life-changing experience, and a life-changing experience is what she got, but it happened in a way she did not expect. “Going into it, […]
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Iraq: Nearly 115,000 people displaced, 50,000 children affected by Mosul military operation – UN
28 December 2016 – Since operations began to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) two months ago, some 114,042 people have been displaced and as many as one million are out of reach of humanitarian assistance. According to the latest report from the UN Office […]
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Iraq Update
Saleem is your average ten-year-old boy who likes playing soccer and running around. But three years ago, while his family was fleeing from Mosul, IS fighters caught up to them. They took his father aside and gave him an ultimatum: either convert to Islam immediately or come with them. In order to protect his family, […]
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Clinic Loses Patients
Today, the Togolese village called Kpategan is fortunate enough to have a medical clinic in their village, as well as a deep-capped water well drilled directly in front of the clinic. But…this wasn’t always the case. If a woman came to deliver a baby in the night, the local midwife and staff would go to the […]
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Gleaners impact Syrian refugees and IDPs
“I’m still in shock; the situation was very, very, very bad,” Simon* told me, the day after their first visit to Debaga Camp at the end of July. “Yesterday I was taking photos, interviewing people, and crying. I had heard about the situation, but didn’t imagine it was so terrible.” A Christian IDP from Mosul, Simon […]
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