Below you will find articles that relate to the current pandemic with COVID-19.
Separated across continents, couple sees God meeting their needs
With his wife, Theresa, stuck in the United States following what was supposed to be a quick visit to check on her ailing mother, Bill Grigory, a missionary to Bulgaria, found himself alone, in lockdown in the city of Varna without access to their bank account. The Grigorys didn’t know [...]
Stranded: Missionary finds peace and purpose in the waiting
Just hours after *Genesis’s plane landed in Paraguay on March 10, the airport shut down in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Her family drove her to their home in Argentina, where she had planned to spend a week before returning to a second year’s missionary assignment in the Middle [...]
Meditative prayer offers deeper walk, peace in Christ during lockdown stresses
Pastor Helen Lawson said the practice of Christian meditation has given her life, and that’s why she’s teaching the practice to others during the United Kingdom’s coronavirus lockdown. Throughout the pandemic, Lawson has made weekly audio recordings to guide listeners through a Christian meditation practice, posting them to her churches’ [...]
Outdoors Church holds services while on group hikes in England’s Peak District
Rain or sun, winter or summer, Outdoors Church meets for hiking services in the Peak District, a national park in northwest England. The pioneering project began ironically as a short-term church community for Pastor Helen Lawson and Pastor Kate Barclay in their transition from traditional church leadership roles at Sheffield [...]
Seville church offers daily online devotions and services amid pandemic
Throughout the closures imposed by pandemic-driven stay-at-home orders, a church in Spain has been gathering people online twice a day for devotions, worship, prayer and short sermons. “It’s our vision to have the church always opened so that people can come when they want and need to,” said lead Pastor [...]
Nazarenes raise 8,000 euro in jog-a-thon
“As I was jogging for NES, I became mindful of the huge blessing this institution is for many families. I jogged with joy,” said Samia, an administrator at the Nazarene Evangelical School (NES) in Beirut, Lebanon. While stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of coronavirus have generally halted, closed or cancelled [...]