Hope is a precious commodity for today’s world. If we look hard enough, we can find hopelessness in every sector. We can find hopeless people all around us. And we can also find the hope of Jesus Christ in the hearts and lives of believers.
As our ministry partners continue to share the Good News about Jesus worldwide, they are witnesses to the hope found in Jesus. In the Spring 2025 edition of the Within Reach Praise Report, you will find hope in every testimony shared. • Fedir* found hope in the midst of war during a summer Bible camp in Ukraine. He still recalls the lessons about Jesus...
Born into a family in Ukraine where God was not discussed, Olga grew up without hope and faith. During the days of Communist control in her country, her grandfather was imprisoned for 10 years because of his faith in God.
“The communists did everything they could to ensure that children from a pastor's family stayed far away from God,” Olga says. “My parents were raised without God, so they had nothing to pass on to their children. I know my grandfather prayed for his family while he was in prison, and God heard those prayers.”
When Russian began the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in...
Dragan and Biljana are two followers of Jesus who are passionate about sharing the Gospel in their own country. They live and work in North Macedonia — a small, landlocked country about the size of the U.S. state of Vermont. Their country is bordered by Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo and Serbia.
In their desire to tell others about Jesus, they completed training offered by Reach A Village’s ministry leaders in North Macedonia. For the past several years, they have focused on growing a group of local believers in the town of Resen, as well as on traveling to nearby villages and sharing the...
Donika understands salvation in ways most of us will never experience. Growing up as an Egyptian in Albania, she was part of a very small minority group. Her family came from a Muslim tradition but were no longer following any religion.
Her family never talked about or believed in God because the communist dictatorship in their country at that time didn’t allow people to practice religion. “My parents were afraid to talk about God,” she says. “My mother told me: ‘There is no God.’”
When Donika was a child, she was involved in a life-threatening accident. “Our home caught fire while I was...