Eddy and Ange Silva woke up to the smell of smoke. It was the middle of the night and the whole house was full of ash.

The desert stretches on for miles. The landscape is enormous. Villages and shepherds dot the hills. Heat, water shortages, and camel herds are daily life. The world of the Bible comes alive here.

School drags on as the fan slowly runs out of power. The heat is making the children’s focus wane, but Bailey teaches on. When the fan finally dies, then they can stop lessons for the day.

A new Bible training program targets people who cannot go to full-time Bible school.

A Celebration of God’s Word Among Kenya’s Rendille People.

Meet the Dorobo people of central Kenya.

Kijabe Hospital’s training programs give students the chance to put their medical skills and their love for people and Jesus Christ into practice.

God is working miracles in a small Digo village.

Catch a glimpse of the Samburu tribe’s cultural traditions.

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — African proverb

Only Jesus could bring together a wacky team like us. But I can’t imagine doing this work without a team.

There is an intensity to the group of eighteen Tanzanian youth gathered in the open air banda in Engedi that night. Again and again, the question comes up in their discussion — how can we share the gospel in hard places?

At the end of the Samburu TIMO team’s two-year term, they gathered together in Nairobi to share their stories.

They run on fear, on drugs, and on the will to survive one more day. Some, a few fortunate ones, run into a second chance.

I knew there must be women in this community who could be my friends, and not just the kind that you chat with in passing, but someone I could really know.

TCK education is a complex and serious dimension to the missionary life, but part of the call to serve and trust God in distant lands is the challenge to trust Him with the most precious treasures.

“I’m not good with names,” she said, her German accent punctuating each vowel. “But right now there are 150 kids at Safina and I can tell you the name of every child and where they go to school.”

The seeds of hard work, God’s provision, moral accountability, and the concept of family, are strong sprouts already taking root in the adoring eyes and peaceful smiles of each child.

At night, globes of light wink into existence on the expanse of the water. More and more appear, like a string of glowing pearls bobbing on a swath of velvet.

Make your everyday life a spiritual act of worship and constantly remind yourself, “This is what God has called me to do.” Just hanging out with the boys is part of worship and part of praising God.

“As a church and observers, we are brought into the situation—and we can be brought into the solution,”

He hears what others from his area are telling him, about never going back. But he believes forgiveness is everything—and for him it means going back

“If we are going to heal fast, let us be able to meet the arsonist, so that as we meet with each other, day by day, God will be working in and through us to help not only heal us, but to forgive and restore these men to the original fellowship.”

Once a man bent on self-destruction. Now a man spent for the Lord. Timothy is a living, breathing display of a God whose love is relentless. The humble pastor cannot walk these streets without testifying to this.

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.

3D Christian Camps are building a trusting generation in Rwanda.

Shells from the 20mm cannons shredded the mango trees nearby, peppering the bank where he sought cover. It wasn’t the first time he’d been left for dead.

So there beside the drama of a protracted African war, beside the aid workers, peacekeepers, and pallets of relief food, were teachers. And some of them were missionaries.

One pastor was in the middle of a sermon when Glenn, who had just returned, walked into the church unannounced. The pastor fell silent, then said, “They say it is death to come to Congo. But nevertheless, here is Mr. Wilton, come back to live with us!”

What do you take on a trip like that? Good boots and a Bible. A notebook and an open mind. And, if you dare, an open heart.

Perhaps a better question is how can we lose heart, when Rwandans themselves – who have suffered so much – refuse to do so? Rather than blame God for their problems, they look to Him for solutions

Surrounded by those bones, visualizing the magnitude of what had happened there, I had a real sense of Satan’s involvement. The organizational effort to rally a million people to turn against their neighbor has his fingerprints all over it.

So maybe these are the best moments. Moments like now, when I can reflect upon where we once were and where we are now. When I can honestly say, I love these people.

Panther, like Jacob’s favored son, was found, and he had a story to tell of God’s goodness and divine intervention – and a captive audience to hear it.

Panther, like Jacob’s favored son, was found, and he had a story to tell of God’s goodness and divine intervention – and a captive audience to hear it.

How a simple training program is strengthening the church in Mozambique

What we’re attempting to do here among the Antakarana people is very much the same as building something new.

Glimpses of TIMO life in the mountains of Lesotho.

This group of young men was singing the word of God, and they were loving it.

As infrastructure development slowly comes to Northern Mozambique, new villages are introduced to the miracle of electricity. AIM works to bring spiritual light to the Mwani people through the ministry of Radio Nuru (Radio Light).

As our team waded through the water with baggage and provisions atop our heads, stumbling in the thick, powdery sand, we felt like explorers in a new land.

The message to the farmers and shepherds of Lesotho is that God, amazingly, relates to their disparaged vocations. And through them, he is working out his purposes for Lesotho

The young Mwani church has gone through similar trials. The worries of the world and the daunting bonds of culture have pounded the burgeoning yet vulnerable body of believers.

Take a walk through northern Africa.

Learn about the traditional Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

They believe in the Gospel of Truth so strongly that not only are they willing to risk their own lives for it, but, grasping tightly to the knowledge of eternity with a loving God, they are willing to risk the lives of the people with whom they share their faith.

Unbelievers catching a glimpse of the kingdom of God through Christians living out their mundane ordinary lives.

How AIM wants to help the church in North America and Europe love its new African neighbors

Africans live all over the globe, and AIM has big dreams of reaching those in the disapora.