Heaven’s leaning over the rails wondering if we’ll be as courageous as God thinks we are. — Bob Goff Ever heard of MrBeast? Yeah, me neither until the other day when an article about him popped up in my news feed. I asked my third-grade students if they’d heard of him. Every hand enthusiastically shot up […]

By Jelani Greenidge A Different Kind of Order in Mozambique It started more than a year ago, with a question. Melanie and Alex Viana are global personnel serving in Mozambique. Their ministry focuses on church planting, training church leaders, and community care centers. Those care centers are called Melanie Centers, and when they reached out to ask about […]

By Jelani Greenidge Many Christians joyously share testimonies of how God freed them from their baggage. Usually they don’t mean it literally. In my case, I recently ended up with extra baggage—a lot of it. And I didn’t appreciate the value of what I was carrying around with me until later. Before flying to Mozambique […]

It’s still dark as the sun has yet to peer over the mountain ridges to the east. A young mother steps out of her hut, careful not to wake her four sleeping children. The air smells of rain and she’s glad. Her task will be easier. She gathers her three dented, yellow plastic jugs. Careful not […]

“I just want to look at them.” His very first pair of shoes, were to him, a sight to behold. He was given a gift he couldn’t take his eyes off.

When faced with the desperation of hurting childrenin Mozambique, two couples took action.Whole communities have changed. March 7, 2019 | by Erin Chan Ding, Cathy Norman Peterson, and Tony Gervase Fifteen years ago, Maria Jone ventured with her husband, John, through communities in their native Mozambique, walking through villages a world away from the translucent […]

Josef Rasheed is the regional coordinator for Africa with Serve Globally. In that role he facilitates, coaches, and serves as a resource for missionaries/global personnel, national partner organizations, and Covenant churches. How many Covenant missionaries do you help resource in Africa?  We have around twenty global personnel in DR Congo, Cameroon, Mozambique, Central African Republic, […]