“It’s nice to look forward to what new thing you’re going to learn today! Farsi and English classes have opened my mind and I’ve gained confidence. It is important for both men and women to study. It is only when you start learning that you understand the value of education and realise that it is for the benefit of all.”
An Unexpected Hospitality
Two things characterize most Greeks: the strong temperament and the warm hospitality! One day we parked on the side of a village road to unload some boxes of New Testaments. As soon as a gentleman saw us, he approached us at a brisk pace and started…
“Today, I was encouraged by your visit. I love you!”
“God, I want to give New Testaments to my grandchildren so they can know You, but I don’t have money to buy even one…” said a sweet old woman in prayer and went to sleep. To her surprise, the next day she woke up to a wonderful sight…
«Zontas»: Hope on TV sets
How can a TV program keep someone company? When it makes the viewer feel warmth. How much more when this warmth is “dressed” with the aroma of Christ, as in the TV program “Zontas.”
“Anamnisi”: A Family For All
Coffee is better when enjoyed in company! This can be confirmed with certainty by the once lonely guys, who hesitantly started coming to the “Anamnisi” café in Chania, Crete, and have now become regulars. If you ask them why they come, their answer is the same: “Because here we feel we belong to a family.”
Their smiles… our reward!
“What could be inside?” wondered the children’s little hands, as they went through the bags donated by the staff of our Children’s Hospital. As part of the information about the free medical services we offer, about 42 children from Ukraine along with their mothers received gifts of…
Porto Astro: A Place of Healing for the Nations!
“Lord, find me a place where the Christian and Islamic worlds meet and I will serve You there, so that the gospel will be made known”. This is what Costas Macris, the founder of HM, prayed again and again back in the 1980s, until the Lord…
Getting to know the most beautiful person
“Why are you giving out New Testaments?” a lady in Alepochori asked us when we entered her shop to have a coffee and rest from the long hours of distribution. This question led to a beautiful conversation about the love of Christ and his redemptive work on the cross…
A really good gift!
“Excuse me, what are you giving there?” asked a group of elderly men sitting outside a café. We approached them and explained what the gift included. They wanted to know if the Bible we were handing out was the same one used in the Orthodox Church and we showed them the inside page, confirming that…
Signs of Gratitude
It is no coincidence that Greece is famous for its warm hospitality. For a whole week we experienced many moments where the locals, as a sign of gratitude for the New Testament we gave them, would quickly run into their homes and return to treat us!