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Peace in a Battlefield

The following post is one of a compilation of stories written for a photo book showing God’s work through International Teams in communities across north-eastern Uganda. Helen knew what the mountains...

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Portraits: Nakayot

Below are the images of Nakayot and the surrounding land, a tribal area in northeastern Uganda. To read more about the story of peace in that place, click here. *additional photo credit: Marianne Bach

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Portraits: Six Flights to Hope

Below are the pictures from a morning at the Moms and Tots ministry. To read the story, click here.

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Six Flights to Hope

Mary* remembers what she saw the first day she climbed those six flights of stairs and stepped inside the church at the top. It wasn’t merely the gathering of refugee women that struck her, nor the...

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Portraits: A Gateway City

Below are pictures from one of Europe’s main gateway cities, filled with beautiful culture, wonderful attractions, and also thousands of refugees from across the Middle East and Africa. For many, it is...

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Portraits: Hakim and Amira

Below are photos of one of the families that International Teams has had the honor of walking alongside. Read more of their journey here.

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An Afternoon with Outsiders

The following is the story of a small, young Iranian church in western Asia that workers with International Teams are walking alongside through a ministry of discipleship, encouragement, training, and...

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Profiles: Hakim and Amira’s Story

Hakim and Amira* have a story to tell. And in any Iraqi household, the best stories happen over food. “Hakim, bring the rice when you come!” Amira calls down the hall in ringing Arabic. A simple tarp...

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A Prisoner No More: David’s Story

The following is the story of a pastor that workers with International Teams are walking alongside through discipleship, encouragement, and ministry support as they minister to refugees and seek to see...

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Ministry Profile: Walking with Refugees in Eastern Europe

Aysha* was in trouble, but trouble was nothing new. In fact, for ten years her situation had been a precarious one. For Aysha, an Armenian refugee and mother of two, there seemed no way out of the...

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Ministry Profile: Breaking the Cycle

Kids from a UCCI school near Vijayawada Joshua remembers what it was like growing up in A. Konduru. “There were so many children,” he recalls, looking out the window as he drives down dusty brown roads...

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Portraits: Breaking the Cycle

Below are scenes from life and school in Vijayawada and nearby A Konduru, India. In rural villages like A Konduru, most children attend poorly run, over-crowded government schools that promise little...

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Ministry Profile: The Building Blocks of Transformation

What do a church, a school, a pizza parlor, an agricultural non-profit, and a brand-new coffee shop have in common? To most people, nothing at all. But to Brandon and Hannah Weidman, they are the...

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Portraits: The Building Blocks of Transformation

Below are scenes from daily life in Masatepe, Nicaragua. To read more about how transformation is touching this small, rural community, click here. All photos by Andrew Nicodem

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Portraits: Risk and Refuge in Quito, Ecuador

Below are scenes from the outdoor adventure and retreat center, El Refugio, a ministry of International Teams in Quito, Ecuador. To read about the ministry and it’s impact in the surrounding community,...

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Ministry Profile: Risk and Refuge in Quito, Ecuador

Roberto chuckles as he rests his arm on a wooden fence post, an amused expression on his face. Two helmet-and-harness-clad middle school boys swing back and forth precariously in front of him,...

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Ministry Profile: Pews in the Park

On summer afternoons like this, the sounds of skateboarding have become a given in the Calderon neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador. The clap of wooden decks hitting concrete, the ping of metal trucks...

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Portraits: Pews in the Park

Below are images from La Roca Skate Church in Quito, Ecuador, a ministry of International Teams. By most accounts, skate parks and churches belong in different universes. But at La Roca, that...

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An Afternoon with Outsiders

The following is the story of a small, young Iranian church in western Asia that workers with International Teams are walking alongside through a ministry of discipleship, encouragement, training, and...

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Profiles: Hakim and Amira’s Story

Hakim and Amira* have a story to tell. And in any Iraqi household, the best stories happen over food. “Hakim, bring the rice when you come!” Amira calls down the hall in ringing Arabic. A simple tarp...

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