Posts by Trudy Barsness
Featured Project: RVOBUSA – Touching Hearts and Healing Lives
A story shared that was carried around for 65 years… RVOBUSA has ministered in over 17 different campgrounds this year and logged over 3,500 miles. During the winter we stay in Bonita Springs, Florida at IBE which is Imperial Bonita Estates. There we have seen a great acceptance of us as people who care and…
Read MoreGHI: Betty’s story of faith after Hurricane Harvey
During this past week, Jill Hall, Director of Operations at GHI, has been in Texas responding to the Hurricane Harvey destruction. She works closely with a local Christian crisis relief organization to provide prayer, relief assistance and support the rebuilding process. During her visit she saw tremendous lost and destruction, but was struck by the…
Read MoreFeatured Project: GCDA – Widow with a kind HEART willing to sacrifice
Mama with more than a Goat and reason to spare: Mama Talatu Sarki is a middle aged woman in the town of Sabon Kamantan, one of the villages we’d recently provided a new well. She was the woman who hosted and provided some food and a place to sleep for our drill team of five during the…
Read MoreFeatured Project: EFOGE – Persevering for Gender Equality
Our true identity is not based on cultural and religious worldview, but is based on TRUTH established by a loving GOD that created both men and women in His own image. As followers of Christ, we believe in Equal Worth and Dignity of all human beings irrespective of being male or female. EFOGE perseveres to…
Read MoreFeatured Project: Jesus Film Ministry – Pastor, formerly devil’s priest preparing to wed
Pastor, formerly devil’s priest preparing to wed Jesus Film Ministries has been busy working with rural pastors’ teams, held regular prayer retreats, pastors’ retreats and youth camps, women’s conferences, general church conferences, outdoor preaching, medical and dental clinics, video shows, ministry in schools, victory marches and joint church celebrations. Does all of this outreach really…
Read MoreFeatured Project: Global Clown – Rain or shine, clowns must perform!
Clown Team in Talsi, Latvia The clown museum has been visited by virtually every elementary child in the city and it offers the opportunity to present the gospel with clown skits. Global Clown sent them 90% of what is displayed in the museum and it has turned out to be an excellent ministry. The clowns…
Read MoreFeatured Project: M:MM Associate – God changes us!
June has been a very full and busy month! We spent several days facilitating a workshop on purposeful living, with main lessons from Rick Warren’s “The Purpose Driven Life.” It was a great lesson and reminder about how we are created to honor God, and should do that with every part of our lives. I…
Read MoreFeatured Project: Global Capacities
One of the groups I work with is the board of the local YMCA. Did you know that the YMCA was started in 1844 through a prayer meeting above a London drapery factory? The Y’s initial purpose was to put Christian principles into practice by developing a healthy “body, mind, and spirit.” That same heart is still…
Read MoreFeatured Project: Enrich Leadership Network
GHI welcomed Enrich Leadership Network as a partner project this past spring of 2017. Enrich Leadership Network’s call is to come along side churches, in Ghana. to challenge them to make discipleship a priority. They are connecting and equipping leaders to become agents of change. Albert and Sandra Botchway came to the United States in 2004…
Read MoreFeatured Project: Most High Mission
Most High Mission works to bring the message of reconciliation and transformation through the gospel, to rural poor communities, in Ghana. Summary from Jacob’s First Quarter Letter 2017: Church Planting We planted two churches at Sogakope and Wodome respectively. The Sogakope church started with 2 families and now has 30 souls at each service. After…
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