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A New Friend A Booklet A Dream
April 2026 • Article
It was probably a normal day for Elias when a contractor came to the village looking for some laborers to help with the construction of a house. But Elias did not realize that God would use the homeowner, James, to change his life.
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Lifted from the Depths of Hopelessness
March 2026 • Article
While many 13-year-olds are busy with friends and school and sports, Sonni had other matters on his mind: matters of life and death. He was the man of the house, after all. With his father dead, Sonni had to support his mom and younger brother. And despite his hard work in construction and agricultural labor, poverty tormented the family.
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A New Family
February 2026 • Article
It had been 10 years since Chloe’s husband had died. At first her son, Mason, took care of her. He loved her very much and helped her in every area of her life. But after he got married, problems and misunderstandings crept in. His wife left him, and as Mason began to drink, his help waned. His friends encouraged him to drink all the time, and his life began to spiral. He’d come home late at night and began to neglect his mother.
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Following a Harder Path, Finding a Bigger Family
January 2026 • Article
Zibiah had seen the young men and women of her village who professed Christ but did not walk in His ways. She’d also watched the example of three of her siblings, who were sacrificing comfort and ease to follow Christ into full-time service. Now it was Zibiah’s turn to set a course for her life’s journey.
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Smiling At The Days to Come
January 2026 • Article
Halina grew up too quickly. Poverty robbed her of the chance to go to school. She started work as a day laborer while still a child, earning income to help her family make ends meet. Then, she got married. On her wedding day, she was still a teenager.
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She Got Up and Walked
December 2025 • Article
Ava’s pain came without any warning. It started as a severe pain in her chest; then it grew until her entire body began aching. The pain and fatigue slowly overwhelmed her, eventually confining her to her bed. Her health continued to decline, upending her quiet life and distressing her husband and family. Would Ava ever be healed?
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Facing the North
November 2025 • Article
The mountains were cold, far colder than GFA pastor Preston’s hometown in southern Nepal. It was April, yet the frigid temperatures of the northern mountains still shocked Preston, his wife and their three daughters as they moved into their newly rented house.
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Banking On … Goats?
October 2025 • Article
It was a rainy day, and Shoshana’s son, Simeon, was sick. With a mother’s eye, Shoshana could tell this was no normal bellyache. Her son’s pain was severe, and he needed a doctor. But how could Shoshana get Simeon the medical attention he needed? Jobs in both the construction sector (where Shoshana’s husband worked) and the fields (where Shoshana worked) slowed down when it was raining, so neither Shoshana nor her husband had been able to find work that day. And with no work, there was no money.
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An Answer to Prayer, a Moment of Pride
October 2025 • Article
In a remote hillside village dotted with patches of mustard plants, glowing bright yellow some months of the year, GFA pastor Damir’s congregation needed the faith of a mustard seed. For the most part, the believers and other villagers struggled to earn a living, depending primarily on harvesting broom plants, cardamom and seasonal plants such as mustard. Many of the villagers struggled with chronic health conditions, but due to their isolation and poverty, they didn’t have access to reliable medical care.
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Following God’s Call … to Texas?
September 2025 • Article
“I think this might be what the Lord wants me to do, but I don’t really know,” Kelsey had said during her interview call for GFA’s Ministry Apprenticeship. But even her uncertainty was progress. Just a few months earlier, Kelsey would never have considered the apprenticeship at all.
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Breaking the Cycle to Bring Good News
July 2025 • Article
Peace and wholeness―that was what Jonas’ family needed. Yet their reality was exactly the opposite. Deep poverty—caused by Jonas’ father’s drinking habit—plagued the family. Growing up, Jonas often felt as if his father existed in an entirely different world than the one where Jonas, his sisters and his mother suffered.
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A Marriage, a Team and a Ministry to Many
April 2025 • Article
In November 2012, as GFA pastor Talon and Keziah said their wedding vows, neither could have guessed just how mightily God would use their marriage—their partnership—in the village of Saron . Nor could they have known the team of believers God would raise up to partner with them as they shared Christ’s love with their community.
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Hope for a Hidden Village
March 2025 • Article
Tucked into the Nepali hills, Samara’s village could be described in one word: isolated. Surrounded by forests, the remote village lacked electricity, safe drinking water, schools, hospitals and even markets. Samara’s two-story home was isolated too, with no neighbor in sight. Here, she and her husband, Keenan, had raised their four daughters and three sons, making an income through farming and animal husbandry.
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