Converge Great Lakes church sends nearly 1000 shoeboxes filled with Christ’s love to the world.

If you knew God would move at 1 a.m., would you get up? See God did when a Navy chaplain turned off his alarm.

Jim Capaldo, former Regional President of Converge Heartland and missionary to Russia for 18 years, describes the unprecedented growth of the Ukrainian church as “the greatest movement of God in Europe since the Reformation.” Thousands have come to faith and been baptized. Ministry continues to widows, orphans, and wounded soldiers; churches provide families blankets, food, necessities—as well as counseling an entire nation suffering beneath post-traumatic stress.

Renca Dunn is one person of only 2% of her people group that know Jesus—a people group of 70 million. As a group, she articulates, “We’ve been made to feel ashamed. We’ve been oppressed. We’ve been rejected. We’ve been made fun of. We’ve been looked down upon. We’ve been viewed as people others need to fix.” Their “offense”? Deafness.

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