Stories

God is at work in many different ways around the world. We hope you are encouraged to read stories of lives that have been changed as a result of His goodness. 

A Big Gift from a Small Source

It came in a small brown package but carried along a big gift.

The package was filled with letters, pictures, notes, and prayers, all meant to encourage MVI missionaries Tim and Julia Dang.

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The Doctor Will See You Now

When Juan Pablo Noreiga was just a young boy growing up in Guatemala, he already had big dreams. “I want to be a doctor,” he told a team of visiting missionary doctors. And it wasn’t just a pipe dream. Juan Pablo was very bright and had been able to read since the age of 3.

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From Haiti to Honduras

“It hurts me to say goodbye so much to so many and so often. Even if it’s just ‘see you later,’ still, I wish I could be in more than one place at the same time.” – Ed Lockett

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Exceedingly Abundantly Above

The program didn’t start with much of a vision. It was just a desire to bless a young high school student named Catarina Chel de Pozo, called Zoila, who wanted to become a nurse.

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Two Very Different Paths

The girls took two very different paths. Years ago, during a visit to a rural village in Belize, MVI missionary Elizabeth Ayala noticed two 15-year-old girls, Carmen and María, (not their real names), sitting under a tree. She approached them to chat and learn more about them, intrigued that they were not in school.

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Because He Loved His Bible…

When Victor Neagu was around 7 years old growing up in the eastern European country of Moldova, he was gifted a Bible, a special full-color children’s Bible that he cherished. “I loved that Bible, and I read the same stories all the time,” he remembers.

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A New Church in Mozambique!

The church has mud walls and grass roof, but it is a place of worship for more than 20 people who have gathered to sing praise to Jesus and listen to Pastor Pablo Mutica share the Word of God.

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Sing a New Song

Even in wanting to bless others, we are often blessed. In San Cristobal, Guatemala, MVI missionary Teresa Harwood has reached out to the local community in a variety of ways. One unique opportunity has come lately in working with her local church’s worship band.

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A Dream of Alpha

As a 10-year-old Muslim in Benin, Africa, Moustafa started having dreams of a man who walked on water and said to him to “Go quickly meet your Alpha.” These dreams haunted him into his teens and he wondered, who is this Alpha?

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A Modern Day Book of Acts?

Sometimes we can read the Bible and think those times must have been so different. Does God really heal people the same way? Does the church really grow in exponential ways? We have received encouraging reports from Thailand that the Lord is moving in a similar way to the early church.

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“I don’t know what happened, but it was good.”

In the tiny Kingdom of Tonga, where Missionary Ventures has helped empower Tonga Christian Radio, our New Zealand office (MotiVate) invited their young adult leadership for a retreat in Auckland. Twenty-four young people attended – for 17 of them, it was their first time to leave their island nation.

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The Castoff Community

The live in the wake of Pablo Escobar, the notorious drug lord who destroyed many lives in Colombia. It’s a community of displaced castoffs – people who are without homes, disabled, unwanted, and mostly made of single mothers with multiple kids.

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Thank you, Naomi

What does a mission team really do? We often get asked this question, and it’s sometimes difficult to put such a life-changing trip into words.

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