ServLife International, Inc.

Religious freedom should be the right of everyone in the world but unfortunately it is not. We have immense freedom in America despite religious differences. Here, we are free to worship and practice our faith, so it’s easy to forget that around the world there are Christians living in countries hostile to their faith. India is one of these countries and Lalan Yadav is one of these who have been persecuted because of his association with followers of Jesus and his response and actions that have resulted from his growing faith. Read the rest of this entry »

The ServLife Hope Fund is our micro-enterprise initiative for the unemployed and under-employed of the world who suffers from hunger, poverty and malnutrition. We believe that the ServLife Hope Fund is a strategic way to help people escape the trappings of poverty and hunger. Read the rest of this entry »

Mark Storm, on staff with ServLife in Asia, recently wrote about the situation of a young child who had been kidnapped in their area. Mark wrote that Shuva, a 6-year-old boy in western Nepal who had been attending the school Mark has been working with near Tikapur had been kidnapped and sold to someone in India. The tragic case was headlined on the Nepali language news, and spread throughout the country. Read the rest of this entry »

Among the unique opportunities available to ServLife volunteers is working in the ServLife Store. This mobile gift shop features items created by talented artisans in regions where ServLife is working — from victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation in Nepal to HIV+ widows struggling to survive in South Africa. Read the rest of this entry »

Steve and Amy Nicholson, ServLife staff in South Africa, are happy to report on the positive involvement of three ServLife interns at the Musha Wevana Home for Children in Zimbabwe. Megan, Meredith, and Kristine, all returned to the States recently, and were able to share with ServLife about their experiences abroad. Read the rest of this entry »

Steve and Amy Nicholson are ServLife staff in South Africa, working to expand the local church, reach out to at-risk children, and work with victims of economic crisis. One key aspect of the Nicholson’s ministry is granting micro-loans to help get small businesses started. Pastoral training is another vital focus of the ministry. Steve’s recent update notes that both projects are moving full-speed ahead. Read the rest of this entry »

Saturday morning dawned early for ServLife staff and volunteers as they worked to set up the 2nd ServLife Fundraising Yard Sale, held on Saturday, May 30. The yard sale was conducted to benefit the work of ServLife International around the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Joel Vestal’s book Dangerous Faith has been read all over the world. But one unique use of the book is as a devotional resource during overseas vision/mission trips. Many churches have used the book to help prepare and equip volunteers going overseas. Recently Dustin Jones and a team of others traveled to India to visit ServLife’s projects, toting Dangerous Faith in hand. The participants challenged each other with discussion questions from the book, covering issues of social injustice, mission work, global poverty, and compassion. Read the rest of this entry »

Can you imagine walking for two days straight through the mountains, arriving at a bus stop, and then traveling via bus for 19 hours to arrive at your destination? That is what one ServLife Nepali mission worker did to get to a 3-day ServLife conference and graduation in Kathmandu, Nepal, in mid April. Read the rest of this entry »

In Nepal, some 260,000 Nepalese children are engaged in child labor and fifty-six percent of these children suffer from various forms of malnutrition. Illiteracy is running rampid among these children living in remote communities of Nepal and they do not have access to education systems, adequate water supplies or health care. Read the rest of this entry »

A flame of determination shines in his eyes. Bahhalu is determined to share the love of Christ with the people of Nepal. His goal is to start a church in his home village. But behind his shining eyes and hopeful spirit is a story of rejection, pain, and disfigurement, a story not uncommon in Nepal and surrounding countries, where the disease of Leprosy has not yet been eradicated. Read the rest of this entry »

This past month, Joel Vestal and other ServLife staff visited several of the current 35 businesses that have started in post-tsunami regions of southern Thailand through the ServLife Hope Fund. Among the businesses they visited there were a DVD store, fishing supplies shop, and a local grocery. Read the rest of this entry »

The trip to eastern Nepal went well, Mark Storm, ServLife staff in Asia, shared after traveling to a rural village in Nepal earlier this year, where the Hope Fund is expanding. We have started another loan. This one is a buffalo/milk operation. Read the rest of this entry »

Volunteer Trip Reflection By Andrea Moberly (Volunteer from Indianapolis)

In October of 2008, I joined eight other members of my church on a trip to the other side of the world. We headed to Bihar, India to visit ServLife’s Children’s Home and Leadership Training Institute located there and participate in the annual Leadership Conference that’s held there each year. Each member of our team had a reason for going to India. I went on this trip to get outside of myself. To see the world as many experience it instead of as I experience it every day. Read the rest of this entry »

Instead of Mary Kay cosmetics, Silpada jewelry, or Pampered Chef products, a colorful array of uniquely designed jewelry, candles, purses, paper products, body lotions, pillow covers, and clothing items lined the tables in Jessica Thorne’s living room. The products were from the ServLife Store, and had been designed by skilled artisans living in countries around the world, including Cambodia, India, Nepal, and Thailand. Read the rest of this entry »