Posts by Joy Cline (Page 4)

Breaking through spiritual darkness

At 17, Lwazi lived in two different worlds. Inside his Christian home, faith came easy. Outside, his classmates made bad choices and stumbled in spiritual darkness.  Then, reading Matthew 9:35 stirred something inside Lwazi.  “Jesus went to all the towns and villages. He felt compassion,” Lwazi recalls. “I was touched when I saw the compassion…

Shining in our Volunteer Spotlight

Bob and Jeannie Jarrett have been a vital part of Ashure Ministry’s volunteer team for the past three years. Their journey began shortly after Jeannie’s retirement, when they decided to get involved with a ministry that already held deep personal meaning for them. Their church—St. Paul’s Community Church in Startown—was one of the 15 founding churches that helped launch the Ministry back…

Novo: Middle East Ministry Update

Dear Friends,  I’d love to tell you about our first day here in the Middle East.  Some of my favorite people to see while visiting the work in the Middle East is the disabled community.  Here they call them “Hababya Yesua”…..the ones Jesus Loves.  Our small team of 10 had the blessing of being with…

The Gospel touches and transforms lives

MAF’s Mali Wells Project has wrapped up its 2025 work and is celebrating life-transforming results—both physically and spiritually. During well-digging in the villages of Bouanidiè, Djidièni, Yassabougou, and Sayombougou, the team shared the Gospel through film projections, preaching, and individual conversations. As a direct result, seven people made public confessions of faith, while many more…

What if blessing was the key?

What if something as simple as blessing someone in Jesus’s name could reach people in one of the hardest-to-reach nations on earth? That’s exactly what’s happening in Japan. Christian and Rie have been faithfully serving there for years, but saw little fruit. They noticed that while people were resistant to traditional evangelism, they were deeply…

IDP project – missionary Oleg Lar’kov, Kyiv

    IDP project – missionary Oleg Lar’kov, Kyiv    Testimony of Liudmyla Petrenko. She is 68 years old and she lives in Kyiv. Liudmyla is a widow. She has a daughter who is 43 years old. She also has two grandchildren, aged 10 and 6. But Liudmyla is very lonely because her relationship with her daughter is…