Blessing Families in Vanuatu

Tom McKaskill - Director - Joyce Meyer Ministries Australia

Sometimes in life it is the very simplest of things that can make a really big difference. This was particularly true for the children of Vanuatu – an island nation located in the South Pacific, East of Australia. Hand of Hope CEO David Meyer visited Vanuatu and saw firsthand the very real need for clothing and school supplies. So many families in Vanuatu are simply too poor to provide adequate clothing for their children, not to mention getting any school supplies.

Hand of Hope knew exactly how to meet these needs. A faithful partner blessed the Joyce Meyer Ministries Australia office with a very large donation of brand new children’s clothing. The clothing donation was shipped off to a local ministry, Apostolic Life Ministries, in Vanuatu. Joyce Meyer Ministries also made an appeal to our partners and friends to donate school supplies and sports equipment. The clothing and school supplies were gratefully received not only by the children, but by their parents as well who cannot normally afford such luxuries as new clothing for their families. 

What a blessing to see the smiling children all dressed up in their new outfits, playing with new sports equipment, and utilizing their new school supplies. We are so thankful to our partners who gave so generously and to Apostolic Life Ministries who enabled the clothing distribution among the villages and outlying islands. There simply is no where that the love of God cannot reach.

Hand of Hope is the missions arm of Joyce Meyer Ministries. Our goal is simply to help as many hurting people as we possibly can, to alleviate human suffering and to help Christians grow in their faith.

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Reaching the People of Melilla, Spain

Gary Preston

Surrounded by Morocco on the coast of North Africa, Melilla, Spain is a small city where God is doing a great work. Hand of Hope was able to partner with a local church to help build a chapel and do a humanitarian outreach which touched 1,200 people in the community. Many people came to the outreach and heard the gospel, perhaps for the first time, and were provided with food, a great team of doctors, beauticians and clowns for the children. Joyce’s book Tell Them I Love Them in Arabic was included with every shopping bag of groceries given away. 

Our local ministry partner shared, “It was an honor to be able to serve the Lord Jesus in this great outreach. To see many tears, many lives changed and prayed for and to see many come to the Lord. Thank you very much for your support and for your kindness to these precious people who have been forsaken for so long!” Thank you as well to all of our partners who help us reach out to this remote Muslim area with the gospel of Christ!

Hand of Hope is the missions arm of Joyce Meyer Ministries. Our goal is simply to help as many hurting people as we possibly can, to alleviate human suffering and to help Christians grow in their faith.

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Changing Lives

Jami Allensworth

On Friday afternoons staff and volunteers from the St. Louis Dream Center take to nearby streets and neighborhoods to visit the children and their parents who live in the local apartment complexes. Each visit is an opportunity to build relationships within the community, meet physical and spiritual needs, and invite each child to attend the KidZjam ministry the next day. Visiting rain or shine, the team at the Dream Center has made over 3,300 contacts through their visits so far this year! 

Five years ago Jasmine met our staff during a visit and soon after began attending KidZjam with her brother Devion and sister Shamika. Jasmine was shy at first, but over the years has opened up her life to the staff and volunteers who faithfully make KidZjam happen every week. Jasmine no longer lives in the apartments where she first met our staff. However, she is sure to come back to the area and stay with her mom every Friday night so she can walk her brother and sister to KidZjam on Saturday morning. She now not only knows how important it is for her to keep going to the Dream Center and its events, but also for her siblings and cousins too! 

The St. Louis Dream Center is reaching Jasmine, and hundreds of children like her, for Christ each week through the KidZjam Ministry!

Hand of Hope is the missions arm of Joyce Meyer Ministries. Our goal is simply to help as many hurting people as we possibly can, to alleviate human suffering and to help Christians grow in their faith.

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Saving lives in Niger

Shelly Meyer – Hand of Hope International Relations Officer

The African nation of Niger is one of the worst places in the world to be a mother and raise children due to on-going health and hunger issues in the region. Recognized by the United Nations as one of the least developed countries in the world, Niger faces issues related to a lack of quality healthcare which poses a significant challenge to the population and contributes to high infant mortality, short life expectancies and a wide variety of avoidable health issues. 

Joyce Meyer Ministries/Hand of Hope is doing what we can to help. We are supporting a feeding program in the Tillabéri region of Niger through Effective Ministries – they are working with the government of Niger to help families affected by famine through the distribution of grain, and also through ERDO (Emergency Relief and Overseas Development) who is distributing food in Niger’s Sahel region. 

To help address the need for quality health care, we’re also providing support to CURE International, who opened a much needed hospital in Niger in 2010. The hospital meets physical needs of handicapped children with an emphasis on treating orthopedic conditions. Plastic and reconstructive surgeries (post burn contractures, cleft lip and palate, etc.) and general surgeries are performed as well and children are prayed for daily. 

 The hospital is making a major impact on the surrounding community. A young boy was brought to the CURE Hospital at the age of 2, he had fallen into a cooking fire and suffered severe burns on the side of his face, neck, shoulder, chest and upper arm. After several surgeries, he can now hold his head upright and while his face and body still bear the scars of his accident, his shame is gone. He gave his life to Christ and he has decided to enroll in a training school to become an evangelist. 

Thank you partners and friends for helping us provide a ray of hope in one of the bleakest regions in the world by supporting feeding and health care programs and also helping share the gospel of Christ.

Hand of Hope is the missions arm of Joyce Meyer Ministries. Our goal is simply to help as many hurting people as we possibly can, to alleviate human suffering and to help Christians grow in their faith.

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