Testimonies

 

Stories of Transformation through Christ!

More than one million villages still have not heard the Gospel. You can help us reach as many as possible. People, just like these, are waiting to be transformed by Christ.

Every village that is reached results in amazing stories of transformation through the power of Jesus Christ. These are real stories of real people.  

 

As a 26-year-old wife and mother of two children, Susie often looks back over her life and thinks about the choices she has made. Like many of us, she realizes that some were helpful, and some made her life more difficult.

In her teen years, Susie’s friends invited her to attend a program, led by our ministry partners, especially for teenagers at a church in their village. “I remember that the program was called ‘Choose Life,’” she says. “My friends and I learned the Ten Commandments. But I didn’t take time to learn more. I didn’t understand that God loved me and died for me.”

Susie...

Six times in prison. Drugs, alcohol, tobacco use. Attempted suicide. Gleb in Russia fell into the pit of despair. At age 34, he knew he was fighting a battle, but he thought the enemy was himself.

During his most recent time in prison, a ray of light and hope touched Gleb. A group of our ministry partners was allowed to come inside the prison and lead Bible studies. At first, he was curious about what these people were doing there. So he went to a meeting to find out. Then he attended again. And again.

“I learned that there is hope for my life,” Gleb says. “One evening, I went for a walk by...

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Dishi* from China let go of Buddha as his god and then found Jesus. He experienced the love of God, just when he needed it most, through a group of Christ followers in Beijing.

Victor from Moldova received care from a Christian family when his own parents ignored him. He learned about Jesus because they spent time reading the Bible with him when he was unable to read it himself.

After 20 years of following Jesus, Feym shared the Gospel for the first time in his...

Nadzieja is 23 years old and serving a five-year sentence in one of Poland’s prisons. “Some may think that's a long time in prison,” she says. “If I hadn't been in here, I would been dead by now.”

Born into a happy family, Nadzieja loved and trusted her parents. That is, until the day they began partying and drinking alcohol with their neighbors. As an 11-year-old girl, she was living in a nightmare.

“When my parents were drunk, they sent me to the room where our neighbors’ older sons were,” Nadzieja says. “Those boys molested me over and over. When my parents and I returned to our home at...