By empowering these women to provide for themselves and their children, they will be able to move to safe neighborhoods, put their girls in school, afford the uniforms, and set a new course for their lives. Not one of them chose to be a widow when they were a child. This is something that happened to them because wicked leaders chose to fund ISIS and promote evil.
Read MorePapa, being a Christian, knew he had no rights, but he tried. This is is only child, a girl. He asks for help. The Mullah shrugs. It is kismet.
Read MoreI haven’t written anything in a long time, but today everything changed! I have been praying for my husband for seven years, and finally, today, when my pastor and his wife visited, he sat with us for tea at least.
Read MoreSomeone was playing a guitar, they were singing. Some of the songs she knew. The folk songs about being a harbor or a bay; about asking a boy to ask her father for her hand. She choked up. That one she couldn’t sing along for. No, not that.
Read MoreThen they had to explain to these strangers that they were bad boys, and had been learning how to kill infidels, and they were sorry.
Read MoreIn that half hour his friend had taken the courage to share Jesus with him, and he had suddenly realized The Truth of the Gospel.
Read MoreStunned, she listened to their stories, and was hooked. She realized that she had something to offer, and gladly stepped into the gap on their behalf.
Read MoreThis time he speaks his mind, “I don’t know who this Christ is either, but he stopped my mother from killing us all. He must be a very powerful person. I would like to meet him.”
Read MoreMarvin, however, was a bit of a challenge. He was born with spina bifida
Read MoreI am very young, and I know nothing, but I see that what was meant to be bad kismet has somehow been changed, but only because you were brave enough to help me.
Read MoreAs we wrap up the project, Farrah pleads, "Last week when you all prayed for us, my week went so well. Could you pray again?" "For me too? Please!" Sabeen adds.
Read MoreThey will gather by lantern around the Good Book and Granny will be over for tea. Forgotten by some, but not by the love of their Creator and those who follow Him where He leads.
Read MoreLubov had felt the touch of God so gently, but firmly, that she knew where to go when her world crumbled.
Read More.. 'If we were married, maybe.' she explained. 'But he has a wife. I am the clan woman, you know. So my children have no papers.'
Read MoreI love that verse from the Bible, “‘Seek and ye shall find.’ I didn’t know that God was real. I had only ever heard of Allah. He was distant and judgmental and said that women were destined for hell.
Read MoreOne thing held her intrigue. Every time we prayed for someone, she saw that prayer answered. So one day she asked us to pray about the bottle and it's hold on her.
Read MoreRoza witnessed all this. She too waited to see. I mean, she and Snowdrop had worked the same shift at the brothel for years. She knew what her friend was like.
Read MoreHer trip involved being laid on metal flooring in a freighter and having another level of floor boards screwed in place above her, concealing her whereabouts.
Read MoreMeena's husband placed video cameras around Ludmira's property to catch the actions of her former husband on film.
Read MoreAs they brainstormed, they came up with an idea. Adanech started a safe house for women from Ethiopia and Eritrea. And Cross Cultural Connections offered training and work to the women. Our team bought what the women made the week they made it, giving them cash up front to pay for living expenses. Soon they were able to move into apartments together, keeping the safe house free for new comers.
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