Sopole is from the Takaupa district of Phang Nga, Thailand. Prior to the tsunami in 2004, he was a vendor at the local market, selling homemade clothes his wife sewed. Having lost all of his equipment in the tsunami, he began working as an unpaid apprentice at a local gas station’s mechanic shop. Read the rest of this entry »
Carter Shepherd first became aware of ServLife in spring of 2004 while attending a small group at her church in Indianapolis, Indiana. Joel and Elise Vestal had just returned from India and were visiting her small group to talk about ServLife. “Upon hearing them share,” said Shepherd, “I took one of their End Hunger Now bumper stickers and promptly placed it on my Ford Taurus. Everytime I would get into the trunk of the car I was reminded of the work that was being done by ServLife.” Read the rest of this entry »
Dayaram Chudhari knew if he wanted to share the love of Christ with the Kamaya people, he would need to search for ways he could help empower them. Dayaram is a graduate from the first class of local mission workers from the ServLife Training Institute in Nepal in 2007. After graduation, he returned home to his village, seeking ways to show God’s love; his heart was specifically burdened for the Kamaya people. Read the rest of this entry »
ServLife is reaching out to 20 children in the western region of Nepal who cannot afford schooling and helping them get an education through our sponsorship program. Rakesh, one of these children, is from the Tharu ethnic group. His parents were slaves that were freed by the government and lived in a camp with other freed slaves. Read the rest of this entry »
Lazarus Thulung thought he was making a trip to eastern Nepal to meet with church planters and weigh options for starting new micro-loan enterprises. In his wildest dreams, he never thought that he would return home with a daughter. Read the rest of this entry »
Education is central to breaking the cycle of poverty. In the state of Bihar in India, illiteracy rates are extremely high. In 2001, ServLife started the ServLife India Missions School with just 20 children. Today, there are over 100 children in the school and the aim is to reach out and impact children and families in the community. The school, which currently goes through grade three, has grown with all of the children coming from families from the local community. Read the rest of this entry »
In January 2006, Amy Nicholson, ServLife Staff member in South Africa, was introduced to Zoleka, a Christian women living in Red Hill. Red Hill is an informal settlement outside of Cape Town, South Africa. It is comprised entirely of shacks; there are no formal structures, no running water, no schools, and no clinics. Children are bussed to schools in neighboring communities. There is no public transport to and from Red Hill making it difficult for people to get to and from work. Many people are unemployed and many are suffering from HIV and AIDS. Life is a struggle in Red Hill. Red Hill was recently devastated by fires, read more about this story how ServLife is responding. Read the rest of this entry »
Mit and Pawn Nittaya and their family live in Ban Nai See village, a very poor fishing village in southern Thailand. Mit and his wife Pawn owned a gachang, the Thai word for floating fish farm, prior to the Tsunami. They have never had very much money, but when the Tsunami hit, they lost their entire fleet of fishing nets. Read the rest of this entry »
Part of ServLife’s vision is rescuing and caring for at-risk children from potentially being trafficked or becoming a victim of child labor, and one of the ways ServLife directly does this is through one of our children’s homes, the Arunoday Children’s Home in North India. The goal of the children’s home is to provide a safe and healthy environment for children to be cared for and educated and experience the love of God. Read the rest of this entry »
Having been active in their local church for years, and raising four kids in the process, Dave and Lois Garrison always suspected there was life outside the church, and in the spring of 2007 they began to see how true that was. When Joel Vestal, ServLife’s founder and president, spoke at their church they were both instantly drawn to the mission of ServLife as Joel described it that Sunday morning. Dave explains, “Lois and I both knew almost instantly we needed to talk to Joel more about this ministry and how we might get involved.” There were a number of things about the ministry that attracted their attention. First, was the focus on helping children at risk. Although never really due to any “grand plan” much of the ministry work they had been active in over the years involved children, from teaching fourth grade Sunday school to helping support orphanages and schools in places like Africa and the Middle East. Lois says, “most of what we did for children involved financial help, which is important, but we saw an opportunity at ServLife to give more of ourselves, and felt that was something we were being called to do.”
Zoe and Bailey Deering from Hockley, TX worked to raise awareness and funds in their church for orphans in the world. If these children can make a difference, anyone can! $159 was raised for ServLife’s work among children by selling bird houses to people in their church.
Gita is originally from the town of Bhaktapur outside of Kathmandu. She grew up in a Hindu family knowing nothing about Christ or Christianity. In Nepal, where the caste system is still very much a cultural reality (though not legally recognized), marriages are also often still arranged and women have little choice in who they marry. Gita fell in love, however, and though her parents would not accept him, she married the man of her choice, therefore earning rejection of her family. Read the rest of this entry »
For more than twenty years, civil war raged in South Sudan. Now that peace has come, the Church in Sudan is seeking to rebuild lives, communities, and opportunities for advancing the Gospel.
In South Sudan and northern Uganda, ServLife is partnered with local churches and indigenous pastors to promote the Gospel by working to end hunger, rescuing and caring for orphaned children, and training new leaders for the Church and her mission. Our goal is to develop collaborative relationships with local church leaders and think together about how Sudanese communities can best experience God’s love and meet Jesus Christ. Read the rest of this entry »
At the age of 12, an older man convinced Kumari to secretly elope with him, and he took her from her Nepali village to India where she lived for seven years. When this man eloped with Kumari, he left his first wife and two children in Nepal. Read the rest of this entry »
We had only planned for 150 women to come, but over 200 Nepali women gathered at the first ServLife Women’s Conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, from September 13-16. It was a glorious scene of women singing, praying, eating, enjoying each other, and studying the Bible together.
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