I was sitting in my room thinking how lucky I was to be here in London. It seemed like just the other day when my world had turned upside down. I left my home in Kenya when a woman whom I thought was my friend told me about a job at Pathfinder International, a non-profit… Read More Rehema’s Story
Today, I was shocked to learn about female sugarcane cutters removing their wombs and was curious to find out why. A report by the Hindu Business Line revealed that seasonal migrant women workers have no other choice but to resort to hysterectomies so that they don’t have to take time off from cutting cane during… Read More India’s Female Sugarcane Cutters
Her name was Qamar Zia and she was born into an Islamic family on 14 December 1929, in British India. At the age of 17 she attended a Christian school where one teacher’s faith so deeply affected her that she was moved to read the Bible with great earnest. Inspired by the book of Isaiah,… Read More Esther John
My name is Solange. I’m a slave living and working on a sugar plantation in Jamaica owned by an unmarried Englishman who moved to the island a year ago with his widowed sister. I was dark so I worked in the field. Only the fair-skinned slaves worked in the great house. I remember the first… Read More Solange’s Story
Help Missionaries go farther, faster with bicycles. Help them to reach more people in one day for Jesus. As much as I like walking, I don’t relish the thought of walking everywhere–not even for one day. I have access to buses, trains, streetcars and taxis. It’s not a problem for me to go to several places in… Read More Two Wheels Are Faster
Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive – Jeremiah 49:11 Usually before I retire for the night, I check on my son. I make sure he’s nicely tugged in. He has a home. He has his own room. He doesn’t have to take the bus to school. His Dad drives him there. He doesn’t… Read More Street Children
Deliver me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape; Incline Your ear to me, and save me – Psalm 71:2 I invite you to take a journey through remote tribal villages in India where you will meet oppressed women. Women who live behind a “Veil of Tears”. As you watch this movie shot on location across… Read More Journey into Another World
300 million Dalits or “Untouchables” comprise the lowest rung of the still-practiced Hindu caste system. These people are despised, viewed as subhuman, and treated like dirt – Gospel for Asia A small girl walks barefoot around a half-starved dog lying in her path. She picks her way over garbage and sewer-sodden ground as she approaches… Read More The Untouchables
In the fear of the LORD there is strong confidence, And His children will have a place of refuge – Proverbs 14:26. The earthquake in Nepal left more than rubble in its wake. It left heartbreak, loss and uncertainty. When I look at Drastaa’s weathered face, I see unimaginable pain and devastation. I see someone… Read More In Need of Prayers
They still hope when they die, that their son probably will come and light their pyre. A son who breaks your legs, a son who hits you so hard that your skull breaks, a son who is willing to put cow dung in your mouth – and yet you want the same son to come… Read More Plead for the Widows
Notes to Women 