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https://www.gfa.org/kpyohannan/5-minutes-with-kpyohannan/dont-ignore-the-warning-signs/
I was driving along the road in my noisy '62 VW Bug with my seatbelt on, calling a friend on my hands-free phone. After a few rings, he picked it up, but as soon as I said "Hello," I heard a sound like a siren going off. "Oh, I'm sorry, it's my car alarm," explained my friend. "I didn't put my seatbelt on." A few seconds later the alarm went...
https://www.gfa.org/coronavirus/update/2021-10-20/
Through three distribution events, GFA pastors and churches in one diocese gave away 450 hygiene kits to community members in need. As the region battled a second wave of COVID-19, many were left vulnerable and ill-equipped to protect themselves from the virus. The hygiene kits included soap, masks and hand sanitizer. One distribution event was...
https://www.gfa.org/coronavirus/update/2021-09-03/
Daily wage laborers in some areas where GFA workers serve continue to have difficulty finding work amid pandemic-related shutdowns and, as result, struggle to feed their families. GFA pastor Sanchez and a team including Sisters of the Cross, Women’s Fellowship members and other GFA workers organized a distribution in two villages to offer aid to...
https://www.gfa.org/coronavirus/update/2021-10-28/
Bryssa’s food had run out yet again. Her medicine was gone as well. Despair began to grip the elderly widow’s heart as she wondered what to do. After the death of her husband 10 years prior, Bryssa had begun working as a domestic helper to provide for her household. She later bore the responsibility of arranging marriages for her daughter and son....
https://www.gfa.org/coronavirus/update/2022-01-31/
Semi-nomadic forest dwellers, the group of indigenous people was disadvantaged and marginalized. Many of them lacked even basic public services such as electricity, health care and education. GFA missionaries had established a school in the village to help educate their children, but with the COVID-19 pandemic, the people faced new challenges as...
https://www.gfa.org/coronavirus/update/2020-09-25/
Bastavar watched the members of his for the elderly, a small voice of worry nagging at the back of his mind. In times of normalcy, he and his team of workers cared for the 26 residents of the nursing , taking residents to doctor’s appointments, helping bathe them, providing daily meals, organizing special outings and offering various forms of...
https://www.gfa.org/estate/cga/
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https://www.gfa.org/resource/detail/self-centered-god-centered/
Yohannan challenges us with this question: “What does it mean to be like Jesus?” How many of us will actually take time and intercede for the nations? Weep over the unreached world and seek to do something to help aide in the Gospel being preached? How many of us will take a day or two and fast and pray for the lost? Like the scriptures say, we are to come and follow Jesus, live like Him and what He lived for.
https://www.gfa.org/coronavirus/update/2022-03-22/
What are you to do when your income relies on tourism and tourists are suddenly not allowed within your region? This is the dilemma people in at least one Asian tourist town have faced since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The people there depend almost entirely on tourism for their livelihoods, running tea shops or offering lodging or...
https://www.gfa.org/coronavirus/
Although COVID-19 may no longer be causing the same waves of lockdowns, hospitalizations and deaths that it did early in the pandemic, its economic impact continues to cause widespread suffering. As local economies and impoverished families in the areas we serve struggle to survive and recover, GFA World continues to help people in whatever ways...