Robenson Gedeus and Cassidy Camille talked with our staff via Zoom about how the COVID-19 virus is affecting already-vulnerable Haiti. Robenson, the village director, spoke to us from Haiti. Cassidy called in from the US, where she is on furlough.
Isaac and Rahab Macharia, church planting pastors, talked with some of our church staff via Zoom from Kampala, Uganda, about the challenges and joys of planting a church and the unique ways they’re ministering during COVID-19 lockdown.
“In our heads, we’re still a young married couple,” Ryan Silver says. “But when someone in our Life Group asks for advice or perspective, we wonder, ‘How did we get to be the seasoned mentor couple?’”
Ryan and Sheila are Life Group leaders at Calvary, where they have combined their passion to give newly married couples the kind of solid relational start they had with Calvary’s commitment to teach people how to do life together in community.
“C’mon, let me show you my favorite room,” Audrey Krooswyk says stepping into a small rectangular room where boxed and canned goods line the wire shelves. A smile lights her face. This pantry, just off the spartan, industrial kitchen in the barn at First Fruits Farm, is the heart of Audrey and Mike’s First Fruits ministry.
“I came home from a medical mission trip in October 2018 and told Mike I felt like God wanted me to feed people. He held my hand and said, ‘Okay, we’ll pray about that.’
