A New Dawn

The included photos highlight just a few of the people and communities impacted by your active compassion throughout 2020. Your partnership resulted in our finishing the year very strong and ready to launch into 2021. We’re very optimistic about 2021, and not because the introduction of Covid vaccines and better therapeutics means we could hopefully…
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Speedy Delivery

“Bow down Your ear to me, Deliver me speedily; Be my rock of refuge, A fortress of defense to save me.” (Psalm 31:2 NKJV) God-willing, by the time you read these lines, Persecution Project will have completed, or nearly completed, our fourth-quarter Christmas airlift to deliver 80 metric tons of additional aid to the persecuted…
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Certainties in the Midst of Uncertain Times

By Ed Lyons Health officials have long believed that an uncertain future heightens anxiety. Fear and worry are at an all-time high due to the COVID-19 crisis combined with social unrest in our country. If uncertainty increases stress, then the opposite must also be true. And there are plenty of certainties in this world beyond…
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God’s Faithfulness in the Midst of Enormous Challenges

The Final Push: Ending 2020 on a High Note

The Year 2020 will be one for the record books for everyone. It will be one of those “mile markers” where you see other years or life events in terms of how it compares to 2020. “Well at least it’s not 2020,” or “I haven’t seen anything like this since 2020.” For Persecution Project, this…
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Steadfast and Unchanging

We have good news and better news to report. The good news is that we have met our fundraising goal for supplying hospital beds and additional furniture items for the new Maternity Ward at Gigaiba Referral Hospital in the war-torn Nuba mountains of Sudan! But we have better news: most of the items have already…
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Steadfast and Unchanging

By Ed Lyons A little over a year ago, I was participating in the annual “Run/Walk for Water” hosted by Peninsula Grace Church in Soldotna, AK. The event took place immediately after their church service, where I provided an in-person update on all of our Nuba outreaches. Fast forward a year, and our ministry updates…
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Nearly There!

The newly constructed maternity ward at Dr. Ahmed Zakariah’s Gigaiba Referral Hospital in the Nuba mountains has the capacity to provide in-patient treatment to as many as 60 mothers and babies at a time. Persecution Project has budgeted $75,000 to provide the new ward with all the beds, mattresses, and other important furnishings. The budget…
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Summer Ministry Madness

Summer in the States is marked by rising temperatures and drier weather. But in the Nuba mountains of Sudan, it’s the opposite. Seasonal rains begin around May and typically carry on through November. This cools things down a bit and turns the brownish landscape into beautiful green. But the rains also bring mud. Lots of…
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A New Phase for Prayer and Progress

In the war-torn Nuba mountains of Sudan, the coronavirus still plays second fiddle to the pre-existing challenges resulting from a nine-year humanitarian blockade and other repressive and genocidal policies of Islamists in Khartoum. One of the major challenges is the lack of access to essential medical care— not just for Covid-19, but everything. For the…
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