by Aleah Marsden | Jan 17, 2018 | General
In Genesis 12:1-3 God promises to bless Abraham and to make of him a great nation. The Lord also says He will bless Abraham so that he would be a blessing, that all the families of the earth will be blessed through Abraham and his descendants. This blessing is...
by Aleah Marsden | Dec 28, 2017 | General
For almost 14 years our comprehensive approach to church planting has been impacting communities in South America and Southeast Asia by successfully building indigenous leadership teams. Currently, we have seen a great response to the gospel in Thailand and...
by Aleah Marsden | Dec 12, 2017 | Church Plant Updates, General
Renting a garage and borrowing chairs from a local business, on November 26th Daniel Soares held our first service in the Cabrobó community. This new church plant is located in the state of Pernambuco, in the Northeastern part of Brazil, one of the poorest parts of...
by Aleah Marsden | Nov 28, 2017 | Development
Imagine listening in the dark as your toddler cries himself to sleep. The ache in his stomach is the result of routinely having to go hungry. As a parent of three healthy children I cannot imagine how hard this would be, or what I might be willing to do to get the...
by Aleah Marsden | Oct 17, 2017 | Headlines, Share Christmas
Recently I read 13 Things I Want American Christians to Know about the Stuff You Give Poor Kids by Rachel Jones. Though she used the program from a specific Western ministry as the launching point for her article, I believe she made some excellent general points about...
by Aleah Marsden | Aug 23, 2017 | Brazil, Church Plant Updates, Church Planting
While the church is more than a building, we believe in the importance of investing in a local base of operations for our ministry in the impoverished communities we serve. We help our churches secure a building because they use their building daily for the good of...
by Aleah Marsden | Jul 31, 2017 | General, Thailand
Annual floods, which are difficult even if expected, are a burden on the poor we serve in Thailand. Unfortunately, we have just received news from our Thai ministry director that record breaking flooding is affecting a region where we have planted churches in the...
by Aleah Marsden | Jul 13, 2017 | General
A recent Christianity Today article on the impact Christian organizations are having on child sex trafficking in Cambodia affirmed our approach to combating sex trafficking in Southeast Asia. First, I want to be sure to give credit to IJM and AIM for the great work...
by Aleah Marsden | Jun 28, 2017 | Brazil
We love sharing first hand testimonies of the work the Lord is doing among our church plants. This month we have story directly from our church planters who work in the Guarita community (Brazil), Gilmar and Lizandra. (This letter has been translated and edited for...
by Aleah Marsden | Jun 21, 2017 | Church Plant Updates, General
Off a dirt road on the outskirts of the city, in Cambodia there is a church that meets under a tree. This church started as a Bible study made up of mostly women and children caught in the devastating cycle of poverty. All but a couple of the men are absent. Many of...
