170,000 People Blessed by the AWF Global Response to COVID-19

The Global Alliance Family has been serving thousands of vulnerable communities in more than 50 countries since the pandemic started. The local churches are distributing food, masks, soups and medicines and are creating awareness of proper hygiene habits and the use of protective measures. The AWF Global Response to COVID-19 will help those local churches with more funding to reach an additional 170,000 people who will experience the love and mercy of God through the hands of His servants.

The AWF Relief and Development Office received more than 230 relief project proposals for the Global Response to COVID-19 program. These projects represent only a small portion of the effort the AWF family is conducting throughout the world to support vulnerable communities. The COVID-19 pandemic is providing the Church with tremendous opportunities to express the care and compassion of God for the whole person. Caring for people’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs is a directive for God’s people expressed throughout the whole biblical narrative.

Some project proposals include valuable information about the nature of the response. Bikash Adhikari in Nepal states that “by running this we will be avoiding starvation, weakness and vulnerability to the disease and even people to commit suicide; families will get room rent money so that they won’t be homeless during this pandemic time; marginalized families including families living with disabilities would get enough food.” The leader of a ministry in the northeastern part of India states that “we are near three months since the national lockdown began. We are increasingly aware that many local communities are without food. Most daily wage workers have been without employment and therefore without income during this time and they are quickly running out of supplies. The need is so much that we want to provide essential food kits of rice, wheat flour, lentils and oil to another 600 families in communities that we are associated with and 150 families of boys and girls that are under our sports training program.”

The AWF Global Response team met June 8-9 to make the financial awards. The projects were chosen based on relevance, impact, viability and local engagement. Projects from Burkina Faso, Colombia, Congo DRC, Congo Brazzaville, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, El Salvador, Gabon, Guinea, Honduras, India, Jordan, Liberia, Mali, Mexico, Myanmar and Nepal were selected. The funding will provide local churches the resources needed to reach out to more than 170,000 people in addition to those they are helping today.

We ask you to continue to pray for this initiative so that many from these vulnerable communities may receive aide and experience the presence of God in their lives. Pray that the local churches may be able to connect deeply with their communities and communicate the message of salvation through Jesus Christ.

Consider donating do this effort by clicking here. For credit card donations, chose the “COVID-19 Relief” project. For bank transfers, write “Global Response to COVID-19” in the remarks.