A personal reflection on global prayer Prayercast's Editor-in-Chief, Suzanne Heegaard, had the honor of representing the ministry at the fourth Lausanne Congress on world missions in South Korea. Here, she reflects on the vital role of global prayer and collaboration in missions: What a slice of heaven it was to gather with more than 5,000 delegates from 202 nations, all gathered around advancing God’s mission to reach the world. Here are some of the things I’ll remember most

House churches strengthened through Bible stories In Cuba, a nation marked by oppression and restricted religious freedom, hope is rising through the power of Bible storytelling. In Holguín, Cuba, children formed their own small group to tell and teach each other Bible stories. When they shared the story of Jesus healing a demon-possessed man, something remarkable happened. Using OneWay’s Heart Bible for the Nations’ storytelling method, they asked each other the five key que

What would you do in this situation? In a closed, formerly Soviet country, Paul* knows today might be his last. So he shares the gospel...

A digital evangelist's story What happens when a freezing digital evangelist gets coffee with strangers in another country? The gospel...

A little church in Istanbul is filled with Kurdish Syrians. Some lost their homes in bombings, others through mistreatment, and each fled to Turkey seeking asylum. But in Turkey, they found less than open arms. Marginalized and persecuted, they live in constant fear that the police will stop them on the street or break into their churches. Without the proper documents, they will be deported back to Syria. This church’s fear was realized just before Christmas 2023 when police

Streams partners arrested last year for apostasy in Mauritania Twenty-six believers arrested at the end of 2023, many of them graduates from Streams of Living Water’s Tyrannus Missionary School, have been released and returned to their families. But many still face hostility from Muslim family and community members. When a pastor with OneWay’s Streams of Living Water baptized a new believer in Mauritania, someone secretly recorded it, posting the video online. Outraged Musli

Equipping Iranians with Bible training In a small Middle Eastern country, OneWay team members recently gathered in secret with 15 Iranian believers to teach them a new way to hide the Scripture in their heart so they could share their faith without access to a physical Bible. These Iranians, who live under the threat of arrest or even execution for professing Christ as Savior, owning a Bible or sharing their faith, traveled across the border for a rare in-person gathering whe

Najma was born into a Sunni Muslim family, where she witnessed the intense persecution of her parents when they decided to follow Jesus....