2017 Annual Update: New Opportunities and Innovative Approaches
For many years, Christar has held creativity as one of our core values. In 2017, Christar workers began a number of new projects and initiatives to address the realities of access and needs in the places they work. The stories in this update highlight a number of these creative approaches, as well as share of evidence of spiritual fruit in places that have been seemingly barren for many years. As you read, may you be burdened for those who are still waiting to know the gospel and to enjoy the hope of eternal life, as well as encouraged by how God is at work in the lives of people He loves and sent His Son to save.
Read and Download the 2017 Annual Update Here!
Read and Download the 2017 Annual Update Here!
Related Projects
Help more workers reach the field so they can share the hope of the gospel.
Help workers in the Middle East run a language school and build relationships through which they can share the gospel.
Help us walk alongside our workers so that they can minister effectively in least-reached communities.
Provide Christian, English-medium education for disadvantaged children in South Asia.
Help a South Asian church finish constructing a building and increase its ability to reach out.
Help send South Asian workers to serve in least-reached communities throughout Asia.
Provide affordable Christian education that equips national and international students in South Asia.
Equip spiritual leaders for planting and strengthening churches in the Arab World.
Help meet the physical, psychological and spiritual needs of refugees and other marginalized people in the Middle East.
Help recruit and prepare workers from throughout the world outside of North America to serve in Muslim communities.
Help cultivate Christ-honoring transformation through medical care in Albania.
Equip Filipino believers to plant churches in their own country and beyond.
Provide refuge and counsel to Middle Eastern women and their children who are victims of abuse, and introduce them to Jesus.
Meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of refugees and those impacted by disaster.
Introduce people to Jesus Christ in places where there is little or no Christian witness.
Help Christar workers serve through educational programs in least-reached communities.
Help mobilize new workers and equip them to share the message of Christ.
Equip Christar workers to provide short-term assistance to those struggling in the wake of COVID-19, laying the foundation for future ministry.
Your gifts empower Christar Workers to share transforming hope
with communities around the world.
Help least-reached people in France hear the gospel and experience the love of Christ.
Enable a Persian to hear the gospel or help train Persian believers for ministry.
Equips South Asian believers to plant reproducing fellowships in small villages and support the ministries of their churches.
Help workers and local believers continue to serve and thrive in hard places.
In a community with no known believers, a new multipurpose building will provide opportunities to grow connections, meet needs and share Christ.
Help Middle Eastern followers of Christ learn how to apply and share biblical truth.
SESaMe disperses bite-sized pieces of the Word of God to least-reached people in a country with little access to this good news.
Related Stories
NorthRidge Church, Christar and the Richardsons beautifully illustrate the three-way partnership between the agency, the church and field workers.
Praise God with us for the blessings and answers to prayers that He has brought about through the Deaf Initiative!
After just a year, Christar workers saw a church form in a North African community that hadn't had one in a millennium. How did it happen?
Peggy* didn't go to the field to teach English. However, God would use this unlikely investment in a least-reached community!
Strategic and generous gifts from believers on the other side of the world have provided a staging ground for more coordinated ministry.
Though Hasan and other national believers grapple with massive loss, their hope in Christ propels them to minister to others impacted by earthquakes.
Amid unthinkable devastation in the aftermath of recent earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria, local believers like Selin* are beacons of compassion.
On our own, we couldn’t mobilize Deaf believers to share the gospel with least-reached Deaf. But God is making it possible through His people.
Long before Afghan refugees Sayed and Zari heard the gospel from Christar workers in the U.S., God used the kindness of believers to prepare them.
Christar is praying for Deaf believers, who can readily connect with least-reached Deaf, to go on a second short-term trip to the Middle East.
Using the training she received at CHL Women’s Bible School, Teresa is investing in the lives of dozens of children who'd otherwise be on the streets.
In an overwhelmingly Muslim community, two young men are boldly teaching the Bible. Without a local church, how do they learn to share the good news?
A short-term trip to serve among the Persian Deaf laid a foundation for long-term ministry among these least-reached people.
Some cross-cultural workers serve overseas with their vocations. Alicia* is one of them, as she uses God-given skills to both work and minister.
A Christar worker shares about how his experience at RENEW supported and refreshed him and his wife to minister in the face of challenges.
RENEW debriefing retreats provide opportunities for cross-cultural workers to be refreshed, heard and encouraged.
The challenges and losses that displaced Deaf persons experience are even greater than what is faced by those who can hear.
God stepped in and forever altered our story. As we respond in love and obedience, we continue to experience His intervention.
Christar worker Elijah gives glimpses into his ministry in Central Asia and shares what he’s learned about becoming less for the sake of the gospel.
As one of the 14 projects featured in the 2021 Giving Catalog, JETS received significant funding, blessing students and faculty alike.