March 14, 2016

Today’s post is written by Gary Fairchild. On March 15, 2011 the Syrian Civil War officially broke out. Five years later, nearly 4.8 million Syrians have fled the country. Most of us will never comprehend the loss and trauma Syrians have experienced. We will never fully understand the depth of emotion they face, but I’m […]

March 7, 2016

Today’s post is written by a Myrna Maxey, a CAMA worker serving in Papua, Indonesia. She and her husband Buzz began the Papua United Football Club as an HIV/Aids awareness program in 2011. For the past seven years, they have also partnered with two local pastors translating the Bible into Ngalik. This is a recent story […]

February 22, 2016

This article was originally published on the Alliance website. A fish farm is creating new waves of opportunity for a riverside village. It was a generous fall harvest—a bumper crop of fish. Villagers were gathered on the shores of the Niger River recently to purchase tilapia the Jɛgɛ Ɲuman (“good fish”) fish farm was selling. […]

February 8, 2016

This article was originally published on the Alliance website. According to the International Labour Organization, sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest incidence of child labor (59 million—more than 21 percent of the region’s children). In West Africa hard manual labor is part of daily life. Most city families hire a domestic worker, often a young girl […]

February 1, 2016

Today’s post is adapted from an emergency relief proposal by Dr. Kenzo, President of the Evangelical Community of the Alliance in Congo (CEAC). Boma is a port city of over 500,000 inhabitants in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It lies on the north bank of the Congo River, upstream from Muanda, where the water meets […]