Luka and Umjuma Otuba, of South Sudan’s Lopit tribe, serve as part of a multinational Outreach Team working to reach their own people with the Good News of Jesus Christ.

The Karimojong are a people group who live off the beaten path. Theirs is a way of life most of us think of when we think of Africa.

On a bright and dusty morning in Ndjamena, Chad, joyful voices permeate the air, accompanied by drums, guitars, and a keyboard playing on a loop.

The Resilience of Scripture and the Zande Church.

The whole scene with the carpets in the dust seemed very Biblical to me. Stately men in robes, reclining at the foot of an elder, bending an ear. But the sight also struck me as a metaphor for the country as a whole. A country at a crossroads. A country leaning in.

AIM AIR visits and encourages Zande church leaders and displaced families in C.A.R.

On Good Friday, gun and artillery fire split the night. The next morning, our team was evacuated by bush plane from CAR.

At a time when my own heart was screaming agonizing questions of “Why is this happening, Jesus?” a frail, needy widow worn by years of spending herself for God was ministering to me.

Many of the peoples of Chad are still nomadic, and the cattle market is where the many different tribes intersect with each other.

Meet the Laarim unreached people group of South Sudan.

“God is doing things within peoples’ hearts, and our job is just to be available when the Holy Spirit is moving.”

Meet the outreach team working with the Lopit unreached people group.

The varied and vibrant student housing community of Shalom University in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo

Life at Shalom University in Democratic Republic of Congo.

The dedication of three men in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

We haven’t been here that long. Relatively speaking. But a lot can happen in a thousand days.

Kireka Home, in the heart of Kampala, Uganda, serves as one of the only refuges for children with mental and physical disabilities. In many places in Africa, disabilities bring shame to a child’s family, but here, these children have found something rare and precious: acceptance and love.

“It’s easy for me to want to do all the treatments myself, but it is so much better for me to be training vets and setting them on the right path, so they can multiply themselves and head out into Uganda, working with integrity in their profession.”

Somewhere in that seemingly inattentive audience, there was one elderly catechist teacher who had inherited a set of instruments that the Zande people call anzoro. Like many of his people, this man associated the anzoro with dancing and drinking parties. Certainly it was not something to be brought to church.

Bangadi is a small town tucked into the vast Congo rainforest. This forest claims over one million square kilometres and is among the most beautiful haunts on earth. On world maps it is the smudge of green at the heart of Africa.