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04/09/2026

Children get sick. That's just life.
But when Senayit's children got sick in Ethiopia, she didn't always know what to do next. What was serious. What could wait. What she could have caught sooner.
Her husband worked a government job. The salary covered the basics, most months. But no paycheck fills a knowledge gap.
VCDO health workers started coming by regularly, sitting with Senayit and talking through nutrition, sanitation, and how to handle a health crisis before it became one. That education didn't just change how she cared for her family. It changed how she saw herself.
With support from VCDO, she opened a retail shop.
"Today, I am a confident and independent business owner, and I can consistently provide for my two children. My life is now defined by stability and peace; I am no longer burdened by the constant fear of poverty or the confusion of not knowing how to handle health crises."
Two things lifted at once. That's not a coincidence.

03/31/2026

She showed up with a cooler and a notebook.
No clinic. No waiting room. Just a mat on the ground, a line of kids, and a health worker who came to them.
This is what community health looks like not a building you travel to, but someone who knows your neighborhood and knows your children's names.
The families in this community didn't have to navigate a system. The system came to them.
That's the whole idea.

03/25/2026

Humans make idols.
That thought came to Moray Naro and wouldn't leave.
Her family had worshipped idols for as long as she could remember. They organized their home around them, appealed to them, trusted them. Her husband sold goods from the street to keep the household going. Life was what it was.
Then a neighbor began sharing stories about a living God.
Not arguments. Not confrontations. Stories.
Moray Naro listened. She thought. She brought the question to her husband.
If people made the idols, how could they be God?
They talked. They decided. They acted.
Then they broke the idol.
"I became very happy and felt peace and comfort in my heart. I completely trust and believe in Jesus."
Her husband still sells goods from the street. The home is the same home.
But what stood in the center of it has changed.
"Now we believe in the living God only."
Name changed for security.

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03/23/2026

For most of his life, Aarón was easy to overlook.
He has Chiari Malformation, a condition that affects his balance, coordination, and speech. When his mother died and his father couldn't care for him, his aunt and uncle took him in. He found a seat in the back of church and stayed there.
Then the music started.
From his bench, slowly, he began to follow the rhythm on his tambourine. Then he added to it.
The church moved him to the front, to the place where he felt valued, standing with the other musicians.
Little by little, people he had never met started finding him after the service. "You were such a blessing to me," they would tell him. His estranged father came one Sunday, watched him play, and gave his life to Christ.
Aarón is taking drum lessons now. He arrives at church and takes his place at the front, with the other musicians.
The Kingdom of God needs many more drummers for Jesus, like Aarón.
Story originally shared in Healing Lives Magazine, Fall 2022.

03/21/2026

People with disabilities aren’t burdens to be managed. They’re neighbors, contributors, and image-bearers with gifts the rest of the community needs.
That’s something Community Health Evangelism works to make real. CHE training helps communities see who they’ve been overlooking, and why it matters. The mothers who learned to advocate for their children. The community health workers who started making home visits to families they used to avoid. The church leaders who began asking: who in our village is missing, and why?
Change at that level doesn’t make headlines. But it’s real, and it lasts.
On World Down Syndrome Day, we’re grateful for every community learning to see differently.

Photos courtesy of Healing Lives Magazine, Fall 2022.

03/18/2026

In 2015, fifteen women in Metro Manila received a grant to buy sewing machines.
The report describes them only as mothers who had been “deprived of livelihood.” They started slowly. Church uniforms. Rugs. Doormats. Getting orders from larger stores was hard. Some women stayed. Others didn’t.
Then 2020 arrived. Like everyone else, the work stopped. The machines sat quiet for almost two years.
When the sewing picked up again in late 2021, the group that came back was held together by something that had been growing alongside the work all along: weekly Bible studies led by a pastor who had completed CHE training.
They had been studying women who worked with their hands and changed the world doing it.
Dorcas, who spent her life sewing garments for widows and the poor, and whose death stopped an entire community cold. Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth who became the first person in Europe to follow Christ, and who immediately opened her home to the church.
Ten years after that original grant, the group is still running.
And this Christmas, the women who were once deprived of livelihood sat together at those machines and sewed clothes for poor children in their community’s gift-giving program.
They had become the story they used to study.

03/16/2026

Her family had tried everything.
Doctors. Herbal medicines. Fortune tellers. Monks. Witchcraft. When Srey Nuch’s health kept declining, her parents kept searching and kept spending. Fruits and offerings for the spirits. Fees for the fortune tellers. Year after year.
Nothing worked.
With no options left, a CHE volunteer introduced them to Pastor Chheng Nan. She told Srey Nuch: “Jesus is the Lord of Lords and Doctor of Doctors, and nothing is impossible for Him.”
Three days later, Srey Nuch’s health improved. On January 22, 2025, she gave her life to Christ. Today, she and her parents attend church and CHE trainings together. And the change she keeps coming back to isn’t the one you’d expect:
“I can save a lot of money by not buying the different fruits and things to offer to the demon, and I no longer have to bow before the evil spirit.”
The searching is over.

03/11/2026

For most of her childhood, Kakada's home was not a safe place.
Her father came home drunk, argued, and hit her mother. Her mother visited fortune tellers looking for answers on her marriage, her health, her future. Nothing helped. Her parents divorced when Kakada was 14.
Some days she didn't go to school. But her mother kept working, kept paying fees, kept showing up for a daughter who had stopped believing the effort was worth it.
She graduated high school because her mother refused to quit.
But finishing didn't feel like relief. "My emotion was still unhappy, unsure, and worried about my future."
For years, friends from her village had been inviting her to join a community health group. She kept saying no. They kept showing up anyway, visiting her, checking on her, not pushing theology but just being present in a way she had never experienced before.
Eventually something shifted. "My heart was changed due to their respect, care, and love."
When she finally came, a pastor named Chai looked at her and said:
"You are a daughter of the heavenly Father."
That was it. No long explanation. Just that. She began studying the Bible with her friends shortly after.
Kakada is preparing for university now. Her mother's work has stabilized. They go to church together on Sundays.
"Please pray for my next chapter in university."

03/09/2026

Worke runs a small shop in eastern Ethiopia. Packaged drinks. Household goods. Snacks.
That sentence would have been unimaginable a few years ago.
She was raising three children alone with no capital and no clear path to one. She knew what she wanted to build. She just had no way to start.
But she got help. Not a rescue. A foundation. Capital to start. Health knowledge to sustain it. Neither alone would have been enough.
"Every single day, I am able to oversee their needs, pay for their education, and secure them a healthier future."
She's not describing a moment. She's describing a new normal.
Name changed for security.

03/06/2026

"The sadness in my heart has gone away. Now I feel peace and comfort in my life."
Hina's life didn't look different from the outside. Same village. Same responsibilities. Same two daughters.
But she was different. And it turns out that changes everything.
Around the world, MAI's Women's Cycle of Life program walks alongside women like Hina, not to fix their circumstances, but to show them who they already are in God's eyes. When a woman knows that, the weight of what she carries shifts.
Happy International Women's Day to every woman who has found solid ground in the middle of hard things.

03/04/2026

Nobody handed Hina a program brochure.
A woman named Margret formed a small group in her village. Hina joined. The women gathered regularly, talking about health, family, faith, daily life. Simple things, shared together.
It was in that group that Hina first heard about Essa (Jesus) and the miracles attributed to him. Not as a lecture. As a story, told among neighbors.
Something shifted.
"Since then, my faith in Him has grown stronger. The sadness in my heart has gone away, and now I feel peace and comfort in my life."
She still has two daughters to raise alone. The circumstances that broke her didn't disappear. But something underneath them changed.

03/03/2026

In the village of Ranjhai, a woman's place is decided early.
Sana learned this the hard way. She and her husband had married against their families' wishes, and from the first day, his family made sure she knew it. They rejected her. Teased her. Said cruel things. Year after year.
Then her husband left her for another woman.
She went back to her parents with her two daughters. No income. No status. The verdict her in-laws had delivered from the beginning now felt official.
"I used to feel very worried and sad all the time."
She wasn't looking for a program. She wasn't looking for a church. She wasn't looking for anything in particular.
What found her was a group of women from her own neighborhood, gathered in someone's home.

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