With no believers in their village, the Lie* family struggled to build relationships or make inroads into the community.
They moved to this village as part of a church planting internship, called to share the gospel and begin a new church.
Like you, the Lies long to see the light of Christ shine into the deep abyss of lostness. Like you, they seek, trust, and follow God’s leadership in their lives.
As they sought the Lord and interceded for their community, they labored and lamented the lack of genuine connections, especially with village leaders.
What happened next was truly a miracle!
“Let’s teach CPR classes and see if anyone will come.”
But how do you teach CPR classes in an Asian Pacific Rim village?
The answer is simple: generous givers like you made it possible. Your gifts provided the Lies CPR manikins so they could teach classes in their community.
To their amazement, villagers turned out. Soon, the Lies were connecting with village leaders, as well. The relationships established through CPR training led to small group Bible study invitations.
Now, the family sees about 15 villagers each week for worship. Thank you for following the Lord’s leadership and giving to this ministry.
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Your generosity provided four optometry lens sets for missionaries and national partners to use as an outreach tool. A local church began using them to check people’s vision. The nearby Muslim community appreciated that the church was helping them, and many are now open to gospel conversations. Previously, numerous efforts to build relationships and establish trust were attempted in that district, and national believers were frustrated at the lack of response. Nothing they tried led to interest from even a single person, but the lens set arrived and opened doors for the gospel.
“These [lens] sets opened doors like never before,” said the local pastor. “Many spiritual conversations resulted from using gospel tracts to measure their eyesight.” Most of those who attended the clinic had never heard the gospel. Because of your gifts, the gospel is moving into areas previously closed to hearing the good news.
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The IMB field worker directing this project shared: “One of the young ladies we are training to use the book began to cry and share her story of being abandoned and hurt by her family. After sharing her trauma and grief, she became excited about using the book with the groups she leads. She said that most people in her culture are taught as children that you don't share your feelings—that feelings are supposed to be kept inside and not talked about. She loves teaching that we can open up and tell Jesus everything, and He will understand.
One of the pastors who works in a shelter at the border uses the book with all the older children and teens. He is also able to visit the children who have been taken from their parents because the parents did not have documents proving that the children with them were theirs. The children are kept in a detention-type center. They can’t get out of the shelter until their parents have all their documents, which can take weeks or months. Several children have received Christ as their Savior during the pastor’s visits. Recently, the pastor sent me a picture of an older child who received Christ and had written his prayer to receive Jesus in his book.
Praise God that in the midst of trauma and grief, God is drawing people to His love, comfort, and grace. Through your gift to the Dr. Rebekah Naylor Preach and Heal fund, you are helping hundreds of refugees of all ages discover that Jesus sees them, loves them with an everlasting love, and heals their wounds. 
New telemedicine kits enable needed medical access. Your gifts are providing telemedicine kits for use around the world. With these kits, medical personnel—including medical students, nurses, and residents—can put a stethoscope to a chest in the Middle East, an otoscope into an ear in Sub-Saharian Africa, perform a brain scan in South Asia, or remotely monitor a heart in Central Asia, and a doctor in Ohio can listen in real-time.
Because of your generosity, Dr. Geoff Little* and others like him use their skills to multiply medical missions globally. Telemedicine opens doors in closed countries where American, long-term workers cannot freely enter and equips medical assistants to provide more specialized care. More than 20 people have become brothers and sisters in Christ from a witness through telemedicine. Pray for additional US doctors to serve as healthcare consultants, meeting global medical needs.
Mobile medicine multiplied in Ukraine. In areas of Ukraine with limited medical care resources, your partnership enables many to find help and healing. A local Christian doctor uses the telemedicine kits you provide to see many more patients and offer a higher level of care than he could manage without them. Using the internet, U.S.-based healthcare consultants assist this doctor and his assistants in providing care. Pray for this Ukrainian doctor as he remains in his country, helping his countryman meet basic medical needs.
Telemedicine transformed a village. Amahle* lives deep in a remote village in Western Africa. Cut off from most medical care by distance and civil unrest, the 11-year-old suffered multiple seizures each day. Her father, the local witch doctor, tried and failed to cure her. Finally, the family chained Amahle to a tree in their compound for her own safety. In desperation, her family asked local Christians to pray for her healing. As the church began to pray, they connected with IMB personnel several hours away and asked for help.
Because of your generosity, the IMB personnel had a telemedicine kit. They invited Amahle to come to their city for an evaluation. A healthcare consultant in the U.S. worked with local medical staff to diagnose and develop a care plan for her. The results were remarkable! Amahle’s hours of being chained to a tree ended, and her new life began. Amahle’s transformation was so stark that she and her mother accepted Christ. Like the blind man healed by Jesus (John 9), others in the village soon saw the changes and followed Christ as well. A new church has formed in a nearby village as more trust in Jesus as their Savior. Now, Amahle sings in the choir and participates in other activities young girls do. Pray for Amahle’s father to follow his daughter in trusting Christ.
Thank you for your generosity and prayers. Your sacrificial gifts and intercession are truly transforming lives as we partner together to solve the world’s greatest problem, lostness.
*Name changed. 
Thank you so much for your generous support of the work of IMB teams engaged in healthcare ministries and those globally receiving love through medical care. Your partnership enables IMB medical missionaries and teams involved in healthcare work to carry out their specialized ministry while training local healthcare workers to be missionaries through medicine.
Asian Pacific Rim. Some local village men meet on Friday nights to study God’s Word, pray together, and grow as followers of Jesus. One man suggested having a free health screening in front of his house for everyone in the village. A local church—where the men were baptized just two years ago—offered to host the free screening on their anniversary and partnered with our team to that end.
On a hot Sunday morning, our team, one of the group’s facilitators and his wife, both nurses, set up a tent in front of the house where the men meet weekly. These men wanted their neighbors to know they are Christ-followers, and the free health screening was a way to demonstrate God’s love.
More than a hundred residents received invitations to get blood sugar and blood pressure checks and then see a doctor for a brief consultation before receiving medicine and an offer of prayer in Jesus’ name. Ninety-three people attended. Praise God! Those who did not participate were discouraged by local Islamic leaders from attending the Christian event.
Thank you for your generosity which enabled these men to demonstrate Christ to their community. The event was also an opportunity to promote our nearby clinic, establish new relationships, and deepen existing ones in the faith. This church plant is the only Christian witness in their village.
Europe. We are reaching out to our community through a fitness and wellness center. We held our soft opening this past week with a fabulous turnout. Now we have open-gym time blocks and classes each weekday. So far this week, we have had 22 people come work out, and a few have stopped by to check out the facility. Word is getting out! This summer, we will hold several special events, including a coaches’ training and certification class that will train coaches here and other Christian workers across Europe.
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