Missions Box: Good News from Nonprofits Worldwide

FRC Launches New Center for Biblical Worldview, Welcomes George Barna and Owen Strachan as Senior Fellows

June 4, 2021June 2, 2021 /Leave a comment

The Center for Biblical Worldview is an exciting new ministry whose mission is to help Christians develop and live by a biblical worldview

WASHINGTON — Family Research Council today launched the Center for Biblical Worldview (CBW). The Center for Biblical Worldview is an exciting new ministry of Family Research Council whose mission will to be to help Christians develop and live by a biblical worldview. CBW will also...

Kingdom Workers Doing Whatever It Takes

June 3, 2021June 2, 2021 /Leave a comment

Its broad array of services used to assist communities & share the Gospel in different ways & in different places make Kingdom Workers unique

WAUKESHA, WI – God’s kingdom workers are to follow Jesus’ pattern. All Christians must be willing to do whatever it takes to respond to the Father’s love and share the Gospel message with others. The nonprofit organization, Kingdom Workers, follows that pattern and is an...

International Servants to Belize

June 2, 2021June 1, 2021 /Leave a comment

2021 is the 30th anniversary of the arrival of Paul Whisnant in Belize, where he has worked tirelessly to spread the Gospel.

GRAPEVINE, TX – Paul Whisnant is celebrating his 50th birthday this year. 2021 is also the 30th anniversary of his arrival in Belize, where he has worked tirelessly to spread the Gospel. Whisnant took part in a short-term missions trip to Belize while he was...

Ethiopia ACT – Faith in Action in Addis Ababa

June 1, 2021May 31, 2021 /Leave a comment

Ethiopia ACT, a Christian organization dedicated to serving Jesus Christ in and around Ethiopia one of the most dangerous countries in Africa

ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia ACT is a Christian organization dedicated to serving Jesus Christ in and around the capital city of one of the most dangerous countries in Africa. Ethiopia ranks 36th on the Open Doors...

Frontier Ventures Strengthens Global Focus with Landmark Decision

June 1, 2021May 24, 2021 /Leave a comment

Frontier Ventures, a missions organization based in Pasadena for more than four decades, is selling its historic Hudson Taylor Hall HQ

PASADENA, CA — Frontier Ventures, a missions organization based in Pasadena for more than four decades, is selling its historic Hudson Taylor Hall headquarters -- accelerating its transition to a multi-hub global ministry. STRATEGIC SHIFT: Frontier Ventures, a Christian missions organization based in...

Breaking the Cycle of Poverty on World Hunger Day

May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 /Leave a comment

A powerful story of how one boy broke out of the vicious cycle of poverty in the slums of India, after becoming a Compassion sponsored child.

KOLKATA, INDIA — As we observe World Hunger Day this week (Fri May 28), a recent report from the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) predicts a steep increase in food insecurity over the coming months across 20 ‘hotspot’ nations - with more than 270 million...

Lifting Up the Vulnerable in Sudan and South Sudan

May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 /Leave a comment

NEW YORK – Lift Up the Vulnerable (LUV) leads the only indigenously-directed anti-human trafficking network spanning Sudan and South Sudan. Overview of Sudan and South Sudan The residents of the two countries have suffered...

Hunger Grips COVID-Ravaged India; GFA World Responds

May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 /Leave a comment

On World Hunger Day, May 28, GFA World reports growing desperation in India as it supports efforts to help thousands starving amid COVID 19

WILLS POINT, TX — India's devastating "second wave" of COVID-19 is overshadowing another deadly tsunami of suffering -- rampant hunger. Global humanitarian agency Gospel for Asia (GFA World) reports growing desperation across India as it supports efforts to feed those facing starvation amid the pandemic's continuing...

Christian-Funded Charity Responds to Humanitarian Needs During Israel-Palestinian Conflict

May 27, 2021May 24, 2021 /Leave a comment

Due to continued rocket attacks across central and southern Israel, IFCJ increased aid to affected citizens waiting out the conflict.

JERUSALEM — Due to continued rocket attacks across central and southern Israel, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship), the largest Christian-funded provider of security and humanitarian aid in Israel, increased aid to affected citizens waiting out the conflict. ...

Things You Need to Know About Mosquito Nets – World Malaria Day

May 26, 2021May 24, 2021 /Leave a comment

Malaria / other vector-borne diseases kills one person every 90 seconds – As mosquito nets distribution increase, cases of malaria decrease.

WILLS POINT, TX – According to the CDC, more than 400,000 people die every year of malaria or other vector-borne diseases. That is one person every 90 seconds. Most of them are children under the age of five. Photo by USAID...

Iranian Christians News Agency – Mohabat News

May 25, 2021May 21, 2021 /Leave a comment

The Iranian people are looking for some good news — The Iranian Christians News Agency is offering them exactly that.

Record numbers of Iranian citizens have been coming to faith in Jesus Christ. Wherever and whenever people become discontent, they search for something better. Ultimately, the issue is whether they can actually find that something that is better. The Iranian people are looking for some...

Where Is Clean Water Needed the Most?

May 25, 2021May 21, 2021 /Leave a comment

Insufficient clean water needed is a global concern - the water crisis, however, is much more a personal crisis than it is a global crisis

It has been about a month since the UN-sponsored 2021 World Water Day (March 22). Let’s review what you learned about the global water crisis. Our review consists of one question. Where is clean water needed the most? How would you answer? In the middle...

2021 CRC Worldview Survey Release #3: Becoming One Nation Without God

May 24, 2021May 21, 2021 /Leave a comment

Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University released 3rd report examining Americans relative to current generational worldview

GLENDALE, AZ – The Cultural Research Center (CRC) at Arizona Christian University has released its third in its series of reports examining Americans relative to our current generational worldviews. The news is not good. “The youngest adult generation of today, Millennials, are now threatening to...

GFA World Joins in Fight Against ‘Stinkiest’ Global Health Crisis

May 24, 2021May 19, 2021 /Leave a comment

GFA World is helping combat the world's stinkiest health emergency -- open defecation --- released a new report: Taking the Toilet Challenge

WILLS POINT, TX — A global humanitarian organization is helping combat the world's "stinkiest" health emergency -- people defecating in the open -- a new report reveals. GFA World (www.gfa.org) is installing thousands of toilets in some of the world's remotest and least developed areas...

Loving the Gypsies

May 21, 2021May 19, 2021 /Leave a comment

A group of about 60 families of gypsies impacted by the combination of local flooding & the COVID lockdown had completely run out of food.

SOUTH ASIA — Can you tell me what a gypsy is without Googling it? Do you know where they come from? Frankly, I couldn’t have answered either of those questions accurately until I began research for this Missions Box News article. I had been reading...

ICEJ: Our Ambassadors to Israel

May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 /Leave a comment

It may come as a surprise to many Christians that we have an embassy to Israel in Jerusalem -the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - It may come as a surprise to many Christians that we have an embassy to Israel in Jerusalem. Not the U.S. Embassy that was relocated to the capital of Israel in 2018. It’s the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem, and it has...

International Day for the Unreached: May 23, 2021

May 20, 2021May 19, 2021 /Leave a comment

The International Day for the Unreached is a day for Christians to pray that someone will be able present the Gospel to the unreached

WHEATON, IL – Did you know that there are two billion people who have never heard of Jesus Christ? They don’t know that He came to earth to redeem them from the curse of sin and grant them eternal life in heaven. They don’t know...

World Water Crisis: An Exposé from GFA World

May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 /Leave a comment

GFA World, one of the world’s largest faith-based providers of clean water to South Asia, witnessing the reality of the clean water crisis

WILLS POINT, TX – GFA World is one of the world’s largest faith-based providers of clean water to the nations of South Asia. The workers at GFA witness the reality of the global clean water crisis every day. Photo by Ildar...

World Thrust – Catalyst for Global Missions

May 19, 2021May 18, 2021 /Leave a comment

The leaders at World Thrust International believe that no church is too small, no church too big to be actively involved in world missions

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA – The leaders at World Thrust International believe that no church is too small, nor is any church too big to be actively involved in world missions. Unfortunately, some churches think they are too small. Others think they are too big. This may...

Dust on the Pews

May 19, 2021May 18, 2021 /Leave a comment

This past week, Gallup, the renowned polling, research, and analysis firm, issued a new report on the status of the church in America.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Gallup, the renowned polling, research, and analysis firm, issued a new report on the status of the church in America. What should have been shocking news was, unfortunately not. Americans’ membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below...