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It has been our privilege to support a new literature project in Slovakia. Keeping Your Children’s Ministry on Mission by Jared Kennedy has recently been translated and published in Slovak, making available a vital new resource that is designed to offer much-needed guidance to those serving in children’s ministry.

With a population of over 80 million, the republics of Central Asia are largely unevangelised. Evangelicals are estimated to make up around 0.1% in this largely Islamic or pagan part of the world. For more than thirty years, SGA has partnered with local organisations and churches to provide vital support to families in need and share with them the message of the Bible.

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God is to visit orphans and widows in their affliction. But as well as meeting their very real physical needs, this surely includes sharing with them the Gospel – the good news of Jesus Christ by which they are invited into the Kingdom of God where, robed in Christ’s righteousness, all that their Heavenly Father knows they need will forever be provided.

The war in Ukraine has left many as “strangers, fatherless, and widows.” In these times of suffering, Christians are called to reflect Christ’s love by serving the most vulnerable. While all are spiritually in need of a Saviour, God has a special heart for the weak, destitute and hopeless.

In his address to a group of students in Geneva, Switzerland, John Piper said the following, ‘There’s only one kind of Gospel-centred ministry that I’m interested in, namely the kind that is God-glorifying, Christ-exalting, and Bible-saturated’.