World Challenge Stories

World Challenge’s widow program in Uganda is helping women find freedom and joy once again through prayer and the Spirit’s healing.

When Filda’s husband was murdered, she felt joy quietly pack up its bags, nod to her from the door and then step out into Uganda’s shimmering heat.

One village’s new church is emblematic of the Spirit’s provision and movement throughout Kenya’s community of believers.

The early church in Acts serves as an inspiration to most modern churches who long to see the same degree of the Spirit’s movement and believers’ unity.

A church in Albania is working to bring God’s light and new life to the Roma community, and they share how he is transforming one lady’s relationships with her family.

When you step into a Roma community, everyone around you has a story of incredible hardship that they have survived.

Our partners in Uganda share how in 2020 your support made an impact in the lives of over 150 widows and thousands affected by COVID-19 closures.

One young lady shares the path to peace that she feels like God has shown her through this time of hardship and suffering.

A couple in Central Asia is being drawn by their heavenly Father into a radical love for their community.

The gospel of Matthew details an odd story about a failed healing being brought to Jesus. A man pulls out of the crowd and says to Christ, “‘Lord, have mercy on my son, for he has seizures and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.’” (Matthew 17:15-16, ESV).

One young lady in Eswatini shares about her journey to restore relationships with her family who has survived the HIV epidemic.

More than one in every four people is carrying a persistent and deadly disease in Eswatini. “Despite its small population size,” Avert reported, “Eswatini has the highest HIV prevalence in the world and has been greatly affected by the epidemic.”

Our partners in Guatemala are working to give widows in need safe houses but, even more than that, a home where they are welcomed and loved.

“I’ve seen how widows are forced into poverty,” wrote Elisabeth Braw for Foreign Policy, “evicted from their homes, denied their rights, and often rendered invisible and voiceless.”

A little boy lost his parents, but thanks to our partners, not all hope was lost for him to be reunited with his family.

Zidane was six years old when he was brought to World Challenge’s partners in Burundi. The Eh’ikirezi transition center and Pacifique work tirelessly to make a safe haven for orphaned and abandoned children but also to reunite them with family whenever it is possible.

Our partners in Asia are working together to make sure that children have access to educational opportunities as part of loving their communities.

During the height of the pandemic in Asia, some children approached World Challenge’s partners and told them, “We want to keep learning. Our schools are closed, and we do not have books. We’re bored staying at home.”