The evening services in Malo, Vanuatu, were meant to challenge and inspire volunteers training for Sunday school children’s ministry. Unlike the afternoon training sessions, there were no puppets, games, or crafts for the children. But many wanted to come anyway.

The baby was in bad shape. As the family huddled close to the fire to warm themselves in the bitter cold, the baby had gotten too close to the flames. The poor, isolated family tended their little one as best they could. But they had no resources for medical treatment.

Last winter was a dzud— but it brought unexpected blessings for eight struggling herder families.

Seven young girls rescued from abusive and exploitive circumstances years earlier are excited to have help transitioning to a productive and happy new life.

Two translators hired to transcribe the gospels of Mark and Luke into the language of a local tribe got more than money for their efforts. The words of the gospel penetrated deep into their hearts.

A young mother recognized the signs of poisoning in a handful of neighborhood children and knew exactly what to do. Her quick action saved the children’s lives.

When Typhoon Rai exploded to become a super typhoon, the children and staff at Happy Horizons Children’s Ranch (HHCR) had little time to prepare for a direct hit. With prayers for protection, they hunkered down and waited for the monster storm to pass.

The trial—more than a decade long—of a persecuted Pakistani Christian family is finally over. Their flight to Thailand saved their lives. But their lives have been on hold in Thailand for more than 10 years while waiting to be accepted for permanent residence in another country.

Young Surachai had heard about Jesus’ great love for him since he was 16 years old, when he and his sisters came to live at Chiang Rai Children’s Home. But he resisted God’s drawing him.

A teen girl was shocked by her smiling father’s unexpected claim. The poor family who, nine years earlier, had sent their daughter Niramon down the mountain to live at Chiang Rai Children’s home were Buddhists.

It was the end of the line: the three missionary women paid the driver they had hired to take them to Sunat and collected their baggage. They were still an hour’s walk from Sunat, the sun was setting, and the thought of walking through the jungle in the dark was unnerving. But first, they had to make their way through the little village.

It’s always exciting for Hope Pacific Mission’s Nathan and Jennifer Thomas when they open a new Christian school. But with their new school on Pentecost Island, they got unexpected news that made the joy even sweeter.

A convergence of circumstances led a local pastor to do something quite remarkable. The first circumstance involved a pair of disadvantaged sisters in her church who could not afford the resources or the time to be successful in school.

It was obvious that Zarni,* a young war orphan from Myanmar, was hiding something. Although intelligent and so relieved to be someplace safe where she could resume her education and build a better future, something was holding her back.

Three fifth graders were pulled from a trash dump in HoChi Minh City thanks to a scholarship program designed to keep them in school.

In its life-or-death struggle against abuse and sexual exploitation, Hope Unending has new help, bringing new hope to women and children in Vietnam.

Shortly after returning to Cambodia after a year at home in the United States, Train Up Children’s Home co-director Susan VanderMolen was having a difficult time adjusting.

It will be okay.

A child, abandoned by family and passed from home to home, has uncovered a rare gift for music.

Although Niat came to the Eben Haezer orphanage with nothing, that’s not how she left.