IDES – Stories, Updates, and Devotionals

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Ways IDES helps you connect your passions with your stewardship
The confidence you have in how IDES’ uses your gifts
How volunteering with IDES impacted your life and the lives of others
Areas of effective ministry that you appreciate
The ways IDES blessed your community when we helped your church or mission respond to a disaster or other urgent need

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Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria Update

IDES U.S. Disaster Response coordinators recently returned from Florida.

Click below to read about IDES’ response and recovery efforts in both Florida and Puerto Rico, including stories from those who were served.

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For Those Who Get Discouraged

“Some of us are more prone to this discouragement than others. Some of us have a more difficult time processing through pain. Some of us may be wearing our happy-go-lucky-Christian mask while secretly hurting inside. Brennan Manning, a Korean War veteran and Franciscan priest, had a word for people like us: ‘ragamuffins.'”

Read more in this week’s encouraging devotional blog.

Disaster Response Leads to

Spiritual Revival in Cambodia

“Disasters are opportunities for evangelism.” At IDES, we abide by this phrase and mindset. No matter how devastating a disaster is to a community, we believe that God has a greater purpose for good.

Thanks to your generosity, the hope of the Gospel was made possible through physical assistance following several major rain-storms in Cambodia

So That…

“This passage has been weighing on me for quite some time. Nestled in the middle of ‘The High Priestly Prayer,’ it is easy to just gloss over. We have probably read it or heard it spoken dozens of times. But, there are two seemingly insignificant words that make all the difference in understanding what Jesus was truly telling us: ‘so that.’ “

Read more of this motivating devotional blog at the button below.

4 Inspiring Stories of Faith in India

Thanks to your generosity, families in a rural village in India were provided emergency food, cows and goats in order to develop a sustainable source of food and income.

Here are four stories from women in this village (names have been eliminated due to safety concerns) who received animals and food, and were shown first-hand the love of Jesus Christ.