Nathan and Justie Wingfeld, founders of Akonda Ministries, are providing faith based, humanitarian aid and serving the spiritual needs of the people in Malawi, Africa. Nathan and Justie are committed to helping the people of Malawi find solutions to the issues they are facing. Sometimes it’s as simple as buying extra toothbrushes, sometimes as huge as building a hospital. When the needs arise, Akonda Ministries strives to partner with the people of Malawi, listen, and support them in the ways they believe is best for their country. 

NBCC has supported Nate and Ten18 since October of 2012.  Ten18 currently has 4 children’s homes, 1 Orphan & Widow Ministry, 1 Village Medic Outreach, and 1 Church Planting Partnership.  Nate’s role in all these ministries, beyond helping to either found the ministry or partner with the ministry in a meaningful way, is to continue to evaluate the ministries’ effectiveness, assist in programs to grow and edify those ministries, be a resource to problem solve within those ministries, and fundraise and champion for those ministries here in the States.   

For more information, go to childhelpinternational.com

Natasha Reimer is the Executive Director.  Together with a small staff of local Ukranians and countless volunteers, they effectively reach and bring the Gospel to the most vulnerable people in Ukraine and other restricted-access regions by providing for the needs of abandoned and neglected children at the state hospitals; providing social follow-up and counseling for single mothers and at-risk families at local shelters; supporting Christian foster and adoptive families that have taken dozens of orphans into their loving homes; providing humanitarian assistance to internally displaced and at-risk families and children in war-torn regions of eastern Ukraine supporting a Christian children’s home and several day centers for at-risk children and youth; discipling adults and children through Bible studies, camps and various programming; partnering with local churches through development projects to increase their capacity to minister to displaced families and at-risk families.   

For more information, go to mulberryinternational.org

CMSH was founded in 1990 at the College of the Scriptures in Louisville, Kentucky.  At that time, a young Haitian, Jean Alix Lusma, answered God's call to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to people living in the largely unreached southern part of the nation.  CMSH is dedicated to evangelizing, planting churches, preparing pastors, and providing education for poor children in Haiti.  They participate in the development of this area, including agriculture, orphanages, schools, health clinics, and hospitals.  They also operate a radio station.

For more information, go to christianmissionsouthhaiti.com

The Voice of the Martyrs is a nonprofit, interdenominational Christian missions organization dedicated to serving our persecuted family worldwide through practical and spiritual assistance and leading other members of the body of Christ into fellowship with them. VOM was founded in 1967 by Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, who was imprisoned for 14 years in Communist Romania for his faith in Christ; his wife, Sabina, was imprisoned for three years. In 1965 they were ransomed out of Romania, and soon thereafter they established the global network of missions of which VOM is a part. The Wurmbrands based these missions on Hebrews 13:3, which instructs us to “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them—those who are mistreated—since you yourselves are in the body also.”

For more information, go to persecution.com

D & M live in northern Israel, in the Golan Heights, next to the Syrian and Lebanese borders. Using a combination of social media outreach and personal contacts, they currently minister to the Golani Druze, who live in the surrounding villages. Their vision is to see the Gospel powerfully take hold in this area, and to equip those who come to faith so that they might be effective witnesses in their home villages, training up new disciples who can continue the work among their own people by planting indigenous churches. D & M know that many prayer intercessors are needed to help break down the spiritual strongholds which have held this region in darkness for so long, and so—for those who are interested in joining this crucial effort—people can sign up at https://www.pray4druze.com where they will receive periodic updates about the ministry and how to pray effectively. Along with the daily ministry to the Golani Druze, the Lord has given D & M the opportunity to host small groups who want to know how the proclamation of the Good News is impacted by the ever-changing geopolitical situation in Israel and the Middle East, and the promises of the prophetic scriptures in both the OT and NT which will come to pass in this area.

For more information, go to teamexpansion.org