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“By using basic soccer skills, we’re able to keep pointing to the love, truth, and power of Jesus so that one day [these kids] will choose to follow Him as well,” writes Brian Davis, who is involved in soccer ministry in Senegal. “We are already seeing hopeful signs that these seeds will grow.”

Learn about the food crisis in Burkina Faso, how the national church is stepping in to provide aid, and how you can pray.

“After nearly three years of doing children’s outreach here, it was the first time one of the kids had come to us for spiritual help—a breakthrough for this community that is shrouded in animistic, superstitious beliefs,” writes Alliance worker Teresa Bill from Congo.

“When I say that we need your prayers, I’m serious,” says Dakar Academy teacher, Jim Adams, referring to the school’s upcoming outreach, January 20–22. “We will be taking about 100 students and staff . . . we will drive on roads that are little more than trails and minister in difficult areas.”

A broken leg opens doors for further ministry to the family of a recently deceased widow—a former member of the C&MA-sponsored widow’s ministry in Burkina Faso.

Learn how you can pray for a group of prisoners in Mongolia who have just learned how they can have healthy hearts—physically and spiritually.

Learn how you can pray for a group of prisoners in Mongolia who have just learned how they can have healthy hearts—physically and spiritually.

“Teresa and I thank God for individuals, like 18-year-old Marivia, who show us that through a new birth and a humble heart, nothing is impossible with God,” says Dave Bill, an Alliance worker serving in the Republic of the Congo.

Read about a new Christmas list that could change the world …

An inspiriing Christmas message from Koutiala Hospital, including a big answer to prayer. Read on!