Years ago, a man from a nearby city began attending the annual English camps hosted by an MTW team in the Czech Republic. Over time, he has become one of their most faithful students. Until the summer of 2017, he was known as the life of the party, always joking and friendly, but pretty rough around the edges. Then God sent a major crisis into his life and things began to fall apart. He lost his family through divorce, he had no job, and he landed in the psych ward at the hospital, where he was treated for severe depression.

Through all this, a patient and wise counselor in the church spent untold hours on the phone with him. In the midst of his struggles, he started coming to church, and began spending time with the counselor’s family. As a result, he is getting more involved at church, even praying out loud during a recent prayer time, and is drawing ever closer to Christ.

It’s relationships that often speak the loudest. Thank you for giving so that our missionaries can build relationships with those who desperately need to feel the Father’s embrace.