by Courtney Kraus | Mar 27, 2023 | Kenya, Ministry, Prayer
I sat down in the grass with Eddah, the house mother at El Shaddai Children’s Center in Kenya, and a full mug of sweet, warm chai, grateful simply to be in her presence. Eddah is mostly a behind-the-scenes woman, preferring the quiet of a small kitchen and the...
by April Jurgensen | Feb 10, 2020 | Ministry
Gal. 6:9- “Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” I’ve always found Galations 6:9 encouraging because, let’s face it, sometimes it’s easy to grow “weary in doing good.” We don’t see results as quickly...
by April Jurgensen | Apr 29, 2019 | Ministry, Orphan Care Issues, Updates
“Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them;...
by April Jurgensen | Jan 7, 2019 | Ministry, Prayer, Russia, Short-Term Missions, Updates
Grey. Gloomy. Quiet. These are some of the ways that I envisioned Russia. Coming off of Soviet ruling in the 1990s, Russia was far from a place of boisterous joy and modern amenities and I assumed that not much had changed in 28 years. I heard stories that made...
