Before the ceasefire last year, 800,000 Lebanese people were displaced to areas that are considered safer.

If attacks happen, people will be internally displaced this year, too.

Camille Melki with Heart for Lebanon says that southern Lebanon has “a very damp winter, (with) a lot of rain. Most of those families live in tent settlements or in makeshift homes, where it is very moist, and water gets into the house.”

At high elevations in the Beqaa Valley, many refugees and locals live in cold areas that will receive significant snow.

(Photo courtesy of Heart for Lebanon)

“Our team at Heart for Lebanon provides blankets, heavy coats, mittens, gloves, hats, anything that can help a family survive the harsh months,” Melki says.

Melki says, “If people flee and are living in the open air or in tents, that would significantly increase the risks (and) health hazards of being affected by the weather, as much as by the wars.”

Please join Heart for Lebanon in praying for peace as they work to fulfill needs this winter. Pray that needs will not become extreme.

“Everything we do, we give out, is given out and done unconditionally, but we also want to make sure that people who receive our aid know what drives us, what motivates us, what excites us, what takes us into the places that are hard and difficult to be in during conflicts,” Melki says. “Nothing motivates us except the compassionate heart of Jesus Christ towards those who are suffering the most.”

Please pray that this winter ministry will show the compassionate heart of Jesus Christ. Pray that it will lead to simple conversations that can turn into gospel conversations and will reach people who do not yet know God.

Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay

Children beaten after a football match turned violent, a woman accused of witchcraft and murdered, a person killed while traveling from one village to another — these are just a few of the stories of Haitians suffering under gang violence.

Death or attack feel unpredictable in the country, leaving many anxious to survive.

Though gangs were partially pushed from Port-au-Prince, their violence has spread to the outskirts and rural areas. Roseline DeHart from For Haiti With Love said, “Lives are getting harder every day. Things are very hard right now in Haiti, and Haiti needs help from its neighbors.”

Aerial view of Port-au-Prince (Photo courtesy of Matteo Favre via Pexels)

Since July, more than 1,200 people have been killed in gang attacks, self-defense retaliation, and army operations. Over 700 were wounded. On top of that, sexual abuse and kidnappings are widespread. Victims of the gangs are often chosen at random, including children.

DeHart added, “We need other countries to realize that Haiti needs help, to come and help Haiti.”

For Haiti With Love continue their work of Gospel in Haiti, helping those displaced, local communities, children, and more. They are also preparing a Christmas celebration for hundreds of kids with hot meals, toys, and the Gospel.

DeHart says, “We want to help as many as we can, but so many people have moved into the Cap-Haïtien area, and there are street kids everywhere. It’s become overwhelming, and we’re doing the best we can with what we have.”

Among their ministries is a free burn clinic. After patients are treated and reach for their wallets, staff tell them Jesus has already paid the cost. DeHart explained, “That’s when they break out crying and want to know who this Jesus is. And then we tell them about Jesus!”

The overwhelming need for help opens doors for prayer and giving. Find your place in the story: join the spiritual battle for the people of Haiti, and if you want to help in practical ways, visit the For Haiti With Love website.

Man standing on the mountain, Haiti (Photo courtesy of Kelly via Pexels).

Extremist groups have choked off major highways leading into the capital, Bamako, creating a fuel and economic blockade. They have also begun kidnapping foreigners, escalating tensions across the region.

Greg Kelley of Unknown Nations explained that the situation “causes absolute pandemonium and chaos.”

Malian man (photo courtesy of Alfred Dena via Pexels)

Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), aligned with Al Qaeda, are working to dominate the region and enforce Sharia law. With Christians making up less than one percent of Mali’s population, the climate poses significant danger for the local church.

“That brings a real challenge to the church, because Christians are suffering in the midst of that,” Kelley added.

A humanitarian crisis is also unfolding as daily conditions continue to worsen. Kelley explains:

“Life is difficult, but when you bring coup attempts and radical extremists trying to take over, it makes life all the more difficult, and these people are beginning to question their worldview.”

Unknown Nations is responding with practical aid for those fighting to survive — support that often opens doors for Gospel conversations. “They can say, ‘I love you in Jesus’ name, and let me tell you about the hope of glory,’” Kelley explained.

Mali is home to seventy-four distinct people groups. Pray that the love of Christ reaches them in the midst of suffering.

Visit Unknown Nations to learn how they bring the Gospel of Christ to the nations. Pray as they strategize ways to help Malians and the unreached people groups in the country.

Bamako, Mali (photo courtesy of Mark Fischer via Wikimedia Commons).

The roar of Hurricane Melissa echoed across the island — intense winds, relentless rain, and life-threatening floods that struck two weeks ago and left devastation in their wake. Entire communities are still digging out.

Móises Pérez, director of Trans World Radio in Cuba, describes the reality on the ground.

“It is hard to imagine how those brothers and sisters right now — they don’t have food, they don’t have power, they don’t have medicines, and now many of them don’t have houses,” Pérez says.

Wonders in graffiti above a woman walking in Havana, Cuba (Photo courtesy of Emily Crawford via Unsplash)

Survivors urgently need mattresses, water, food, and roofing materials. While the government has responded, the destruction is so extensive that needs far exceed available resources. Some neighborhoods have regained electricity and communication — but not the communities that lost everything.

The local churches didn’t hesitate. Pérez explains:

“We have sent aid to the eastern side. We have sent food. We have sent clothes, medicines.”

In moments when natural disasters strike, the Church is called to respond — to stand with people whose foundations, both literal and emotional, have been shaken. When a home built through years of hard work is destroyed, many begin to question whether God is still with them.

This is where the Body of Christ steps in as His hands and feet. “In order to be a testimony for them about God’s love in times of crisis and need,” Pérez says.

The Church’s response is reminding devastated communities that God has not abandoned them!

“And they are grateful to God because in Christ, we are a family. We are one people,” Pérez adds.

Pray for families who lost everything in Hurricane Melissa, and for the Cuban Church to use its resources wisely as recovery continues.

Visit TWR to learn more about their work in the region.

Header photo: Satellite image of Cuba (courtesy of Jacques Descloitres via Wikimedia Commons).

Jason Woolford with Mission Cry says there is devastation in this area as thousands of villages were submerged by floodwaters. 

The body of Christ is also hurting in Kasur, as Christian girls and women are specifically targeted for sexual abuse.

“Combining both of those things, flooding, loss of food and hope, and the attacks on Christian women there, we wanted to come in and bring hope,” Woolford says. “We did that [by] bringing boatloads of rice, food, and most importantly, the Word of God, the only thing that doesn’t return void.”

Mission Cry is working to feed people physically and spiritually, and people are responding.

“We’re seeing hope and joy, because these people are being forgotten about, especially with their so-called God, when the real God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are showing up in word form and through our Mission Cry team,” Woolford says. 

The need in Kasur remains strong. Mission Cry went door to door and provided two weeks of food relief rations, but wants to again.

(Photo courtesy of Mission Cry)

For those not in this conflict, Woolford says, “We’ve been blessed, but we’ve been blessed to be a blessing as well.”

Please pray for the on-the-ground team and for the believers in this area. Pray for salvation for those who do not yet know the Lord. Pray that the flooding will stop and that Mission CRY’s work will bless the people in this area. 

To help Mission Cry as they seek to send more shipments around the world, go to missioncry.com/donation-form/.

Header photo of flood relief distribution from Mission Cry team in Pakistan. (Photo courtesy of Mission Cry)

Fung-wong (known locally as Uwan) was the second typhoon to strike the nation this month. Last week, Typhoon Kalmaegi killed more than 220 people in the central Philippines. 

Survivors need humanitarian aid —but that’s not the only thing. 

“Believers are praying and in one way or another organizing relief operation[s] to be able to respond,” says Herman Moldez with A3. “But more than that, I think we really need to be more aggressive in advocating creation care.”

Moldez explains that part of Kalmaegi’s destructive force came from deforestation. Rainfall on mountainsides in central Cebu province turned into floodwaters that villagers below weren’t expecting. Compare that to the Sierra Madre Mountains in the northern Philippines, which helped to lessen Fung-wong’s devastation. 

Yet the financial profit from logging, quarrying, and development are strong temptations across the Philippines.

“We just pray that the government will really think about this,” says Moldez. “Because it’s really the problem of the government — why they allow the quarrying and building such places [resorts] on top of the mountain where it will create a lot of problem[s].”

Find your place in the story 

Thousands of people in the Philippines need aid after these storms, but many also need strong voices in the public sphere. Pray that Christians will speak up to spare future lives and honor God. Moldez says to pray that discipleship will lead believers to act as “salt and light” in their society, rather than focusing inwardly on church attendance numbers.

“My prayer is that in this whole talk and on discipleship and following Jesus, that this [creation care] will be part of the agenda: that following Jesus in the context where we live will require response to creation care. Many people are not yet able to think in that way. So we need a more holistic worldview and Christian perspective to guide us in obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ,” says Moldez.

Header photo: stock image courtesy of Nothing Ahead via Pexels.

The storm affected about six major areas, including Hue City, Danang City, Quang Tri Province, Khanh Hoa Province, and Gia Lai Province, along with several northern and central regions.

Many residents fled south as at least five people were killed and countless others displaced.

Pastor Loc Lam, A3’s country director in Vietnam, says, “there are many houses have been collapsed. Thousands of livestock are dead, and thousands of hectares of rice fields and crops have been affected, and a flooding happening in many places.”

He adds that people are deeply shaken: “Those who are in those places, they became very miserable, worried, discouraged.”

Vietnamese women (photo courtesy of Kushie In Vietnam via Pexels)

Before the typhoon made landfall, the Vietnamese government sent out warnings and evacuation notices to help people move from dangerous areas threatened by flooding and high winds.

After the storm, the government joined with local organizations, religious groups, and individuals — including churches — to provide relief and support for victims.

Amid the devastation, the Church is responding with compassion. “This is the right time when love is expressed through actual essence,” Pastor Lam says.

Teams from the Vietnam Evangelical Alliance and A3 alumni are working together to bring aid and hope. As people receive help, they also experience the love of Christ.

“We also help them, to encourage them and share the love of God to them, to bring the Gospel to them through our actual action with love,” Lam explains.

Lam says these difficult circumstances give the Church an opportunity to live out its calling. When believers serve faithfully, it becomes easier to reach people with the hope of the Gospel.

Pray that the Gospel comforts those who have lost everything and draws them to seek the treasure that never spoils. Visit A3 to learn how they empower local indigenous leaders to help their communities grow.

“Through these difficult situations, if the Church fulfills its role as followers of Jesus Christ, it becomes easier to reach people and bring them the salvation and the Gospel,” says Lam.

Header photo courtesy of GEORGE DESIPRIS via Pexels.

Nehemiah with FMI says the Taliban-run nation lacks basic infrastructure, including heavy machinery for disaster relief. “Afghan people, they are digging the rubble with their bare hands and trying to find out their loved ones who are buried or who are down in the rubble,” he says. 

Afghanistan is prone to earthquakes, and the mud and wood that many Afghan homes are made of can’t withstand many tremors. Most recently, a 6.0-magnitude quake struck eastern Afghanistan one night in late August, killing more than 2,200 people.

(Photo courtesy of FMI)

Today, survivors of the November 3 quake need tents, food, blankets, and basic medical help, says Nehemiah. Yet Taliban control is another factor that hinders much-needed help.  

“They [the Taliban] do not want [others to] see what’s going on on the ground. So they don’t want any aid from foreign countries,” he says. “There are very, very few non-profit humanitarian organizations who work in Afghanistan, so they have very limited access to these affected areas.”

An August 2025 report from the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction documented how the Taliban diverts U.S. humanitarian aid for its own purposes. That environment presents a challenge for FMI partners, too. 

“This is very, very strange situation,” says Nehemiah. “It’s very difficult sometimes to proclaim the gospel when you don’t have food to eat, when you don’t have [a] place to stay.” 

But FMI partners still point people to Christ. One partner recently visited a family that had no home and was living under the open sky. He was able to give them some aid, and he told them, “This is a gift from your Father.”

“We don’t have a father,” they said, confused.

“Father means Jesus Christ,” the man explained. 

Nehemiah says, “This is very important. Sometimes just a simple sentence, not even sharing [the] gospel, but just a simple word that really encourages these families who are stranded in such situation.”

Please pray for gospel hope to reach survivors. Support FMI’s relief work in Afghanistan with a gift of any amount at this critical time.

“Please pray for them. Come forward, support them, and try to be an echo for these brothers and sisters who are voiceless,” Nehemiah says. 

Header photo: A boy stands by the side of the road in Afghanistan. (Photo courtesy of IMB — Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License)

“We hope that something is happening. We will pray for that. But in [the] real scene, the war is intensified, even with drone [or] with air bombardment,” says Reverend Tut Kony with Greater Reach, Inc. 

Case in point: The reopening of the main airport in Sudan’s capital city, Khartoum, was postponed last week due to a surge of drone strikes from the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary. It would have been the airport’s first opening since the war began in April 2023.

The two-and-a-half-year conflict has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced about 12 million, and left 30 million in need of humanitarian assistance. It’s considered one of, if not the worst, humanitarian crises in the world today.

(Photo of Khartoum, Sudan courtesy of Ammar Nassir via Unsplash)

“The bigger problem is that people are dying without hearing the good news,” says Kony. “Our church planters are around. They are in the [IDP] camps. But the problem is that they will be targeted by those who are against the gospel. They can also be killed [by] crossfire.” 

The desperate need for food is both a daily struggle for Christians and an open door for ministry. 

“In Islam side, they [Muslims] see a lot of war, a lot of atrocities,” says Kony. “But from Christian side, who they considered their enemies, they are seeing they are coming with food. They are risking their life to bring food for the needy people.” 

If you have supported the gospel work of Sudanese believers, Kony thanks you.

“With your help, we have seen light coming out from the darkness. We have seen a lot of people coming to Christ when the atrocities [are] happening, because [through giving aid] we are able to show the love of Christ,” he says. 

Sudan’s population is 93 percent Muslim and less than 1 percent evangelical Christian. Pray that that will change!

“The bulk of people who are attending [church] here, they are Christian-background, but some of them are from [a] totally Muslim background, [who have] dedicated their life and consecrated to be ministers and pastors,” says Kony.

As you pray for Sudan, Kony asks that you focus on “the emerging church in Darfur, in [the] Nuba Mountains, in Blue Nile and even the far north. They need a lot of prayer. They need courage so that they can testify [to] their faith.”

Header photo courtesy of Aladdin Mustafa via Pexels.

Both Israel and Hamas representatives say they’re committed to the truce, but diplomatic progress remains slow and cautious. Disagreements over hostage bodies, aid access, and control of territory could trigger a relapse.

As aid workers bring critical help to Gaza, they encounter indescribable need.

Displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah line up to receive food provided by charitable organizations.
(Wikimedia Commons)

“I’ve read articles [about] Palestinians who are returning to their past houses and seeing the total devastation, saying how burdened and broken they are at the suffering,” Brother Y with Global Catalytic Ministries says.

“There was massive, massive destruction, and it’s so painful for people.”

At least two-thirds of all structures in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed since the war began. Although Hamas claims to represent the Palestinian people, Brother Y says many residents reject that claim.

“Many of them put the suffering both on the Israeli government and Hamas, those that – as they say in their words – ‘call themselves our leaders,’” Brother Y says.

The war has brought suffering to Israel, too. Read more about that here.

“Many (soldiers) who came back committed suicide, and many secondary trauma people who are friends and relatives, also committed suicide,” Brother Y says. “We have a suicide epidemic in Israel.”

Hope and healing through the Gospel

(Photo courtesy of Prayercast)

Pray for believers as they bring help and the hope of Jesus to Gaza war survivors. The ceasefire creates space for humanitarian access, which gives believers an avenue to share the hope of Christ.

“The international involvement will create many opportunities for Christian-led, mission-minded NGOs to go in and bring in their people. The only thing I am optimistic about is the amazing Gospel opportunities that are going to be presented [as a result,]” Brother Y says.

“The only true healing, the only true redemption, the only true forgiveness can come through the Gospel.”

Pray for hearts to change as people formerly against Christ encounter His love. “Even guilty people can have a born-again experience, can get a new life and heart,” Brother Y says.

“Let’s go all the way back to the Nazis; people who [were] serving in the SS and who repented and turned to God – these things really baffle us [but] that’s the power of the Gospel,” he continues.

In Gaza, “there’s going to be lots of pain for the oppressed, oppressors, and everything in between. And that’s a great opportunity to bring the Gospel into this brokenness.”

Header image depicts destruction in the Beach refugee camp, Gaza Strip, circa July 2024. (Wikimedia Commons)