How did you get involved supporting an Afghan Muslim Finance Manager from the UK? “I responded to a notice in the PI Quarterly Update. Being a mentor to a Finance Manager in a Christian organisation in Afghanistan looked like an interesting and worthwhile, but also manageable, way to apply [...]
After 30 years, there is finally a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Karabakh region and surrounding districts. This has come at great cost to both sides with thousands of soldiers, and many civilians killed during the six week war this past autumn. IDP’s (Internally Displaced Persons) [...]
This year I have noticed how many people have put up their Christmas lights in November. It seems that lockdown has felt so dark that many felt the need to lift their spirits and turn on their multi-coloured lights. As an unseen germ has turned the whole world upside [...]
Anonystan - Light in the darknessLet me tell you about a small, unregistered (read illegal) church in Anonystan with a pastor who has a passion and vision to reach those lost in darkness. Instead of seeing Covid as an obstacle, the church decided to use it as an opportunity! So [...]
People International was recommended to me as being professional, focused and friendly… A friend first recommended People International (PI) to me as being professional and focused, while at the same time, friendly. These three things are some of the reasons I eventually chose to join PI. Professionally, PI values [...]
I’d never really traveled anywhere, and here I was setting off to somewhere really strange that people couldn’t pronounce or find on a map… Although I agreed with Isaiah’s cry ‘Here I am! Send me!’ when I was a child, I didn’t really know that he would send me [...]
As the world we live in seems to be changing at an ever increasing speed these days, so must the way in which we approach Global Ministry - writes Kayla, one of our Central Asian workers, as she explains about the launch of this new ministry... In much of [...]
"Where are you from?" A seemingly simple question and yet for an MK (missionary kid) it's a complex one that may not have a definitive answer. Do you mean my passport country? (Which may or may not be my country of birth and in fact, I may hardly have visited.) [...]
Dear Friends, As I write this, cases of Coronavirus and associated deaths in the UK are on the rise, jobs are disappearing rapidly and lock down is likely to be for some period yet. So many people are asking what is going on and wondering how the future might [...]
Greetings from the East... Two to three months ago, the world was thinking about China and praying for us. Today my heart and prayers, and those of believers here, are focused on you in the West, and the rest of the world. It's been an unsettling time facing COVID-19, [...]
