Stories of Hope
Stories from our ministry fields around the world.

August 2023 Prayer Guide
INDIA — Words of Hope in India is engaged in many community development projects. Through these projects, the team seeks to reach out to benefit needy individuals in the community with the love and compassion of Jesus. This year,

July 2023 Prayer Guide
INDIA — Give thanks that our staff team in India was invited to organize a two-day seekers’ meeting at a nearby church. We are overjoyed that 70 people attended the meeting from many surrounding villages. The attendees represented several

June 2023 Prayer Guide
UGANDA — Pray that God would be at work to restore hope in the hearts of young people in Uganda. Our producers report that many young people are falling into addictions. Parents, too, are anxious and depressed as they

Dealing with Discouragement
Are you stuck in discouragement? Nehemiah’s prayer in Nehemiah 1:4-11 gives you a model to leave discouragement behind, by remembering God and his promises. As we drove through Wyoming, my husband and I were amused at some of the

Faith Comes Through Hearing
A Bhutanese woman champions the gospel in her home village with the help of audio Bible recordings. Following Christ’s Leading Many years ago, a lady named Choeden followed her husband away from their remote mountain village in Bhutan and

Helambu Sherpa Language
Words of Hope Nepal is introducing a new broadcast program in the Helambu Sherpa language. Words of Hope’s Nepali ministry director first met a Sherpa pastor in 2013 while visiting the Himalayan region for ministry. The Sherpa pastor shared

Dogri Christmas Tappa
One of the many forms of media outreach that the Words of Hope team in India employs is music. Setting lyrics to music can touch hearts in ways that words alone do not. And in the region of Jammu

May 2023 Prayer Guide
INDIA — Our producer in Jammu and Kashmir writes: “Praise God for the great results of our labor in the Lord. Many people have received healing, deliverance, and real joy in the Lord. We had a three-day seekers’ meeting

Tutoring Centers for Children in India
As Words of Hope team members in India began outreach work in northern villages, they realized that many children in the region were not attending school. The families they encountered all belonged to the lower castes. Some were afraid