What love looks like when ‘the whole world shuts down!
“We had one incredible week of ministry and then literally the whole world shut down!” said campus minister Rachel Rubin, who serves with the La Ruta team in Montevideo, Uruguay.
“We had one incredible week of ministry and then literally the whole world shut down!” said campus minister Rachel Rubin, who serves with the La Ruta team in Montevideo, Uruguay.
When civil engineer Heidi Wallace learned about Globalscope’s exchange semester program at a board meeting of her college campus ministry, her initial reaction was disappointment that she didn’t know about it when she was a student.
Professional baker Jill Shuck felt God challenging her with this question a year ago while visiting Missions of Hope International (MOHI) in Nairobi, Kenya, and she knew her response had to be a “yes!”
“I truly felt like God reached down and looked me in the eye and said, ‘Will you speak up to (MOHI Founder and Director) Mary Kamau and tell her about your passion for baking and your experience running a business?’ ” said Jill.
“Much like you in the U.S.,” says Globalscope campus minister Tim Crabtree “our lives and work have seen drastic changes recently.”
In Tübingen, Germany, home of an Unterwegs campus ministry, strict measures are in place for people to stay at home and most businesses are closed. And non-profits like churches and Unterwegs cannot open again for meetings until mid-June, which will be about halfway through the summer semester.
The reality of respiratory infections became personal to team member Becca Schafer and her team at Hope Home in Chiang Mai, Thailand, when one of the children with special needs in the home became ill recently.
“While our Yindee has a chronic respiratory condition, one day she was her normal self, but rapidly became ill, struggling to breathe, the next,” said Becca. “She was admitted to the ICU at our local hospital and spent a week on a ventilator and then another three weeks in intensive care.
The Farming God’s Way agricultural team from AgriStewards, Lebanon, Ind., returned to Kenya this spring to assist with the Missions of Hope International (MOHI) farms, and found many things to cheer about, according to team leader Brian Smith.
Savanah has been passionate about missions from a young age, when she counted down the days to the short-term trips she made to Missions of Hope in Kenya with her church.
The Kenyan government is working hard to slow the progression of COVID-19 in that country, reports CMF team member Raelyn Nicholson, and Missions of Hope International (MOHI) is also doing whatever it can to help its communities.
Tori Anderson became a believer while attending a Christian campus group in college, so she has a real passion for sharing Jesus with university students.
As COVID-19 restrictions have tightened in Ukraine, the CMF team in Berdyansk and the local church leadership looked for creative ways to continue to minister and reach out to the community, even though they can’t gather together.