Brick making from mud in the remote village of Singano. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) A survey of construction methods was the team’s assignment on our first full day on the job. We learned how the poorest of the poor turn mud into bricks and build houses that will last one year, and how others with more means are able to use bricks produced in a kiln to build structures that will be inhabitable for much longer (in some cases 7-to-10 years and in others for generations). CLICK HERE for daily Dispatches from Mission: Malawi 2017.
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Elaine Fallesen, right, makes Gospel bracelets with and teaches a Kurdish family living on the slopes of Mount Ararat in Turkey. (Photo by Gary Fallesen, Mission: Ararat 2014) Families throughout the Muslim world are observing Ramadan. See Project Prayer: Ramadan 2017. In Turkey, our teams meet with as many members of Kurdish families as possible to share the Gospel message. Family ministry is extremely important to reach those following Islam. Climbing For Christ carried out Evangelic Expeditions to Mount Ararat and eastern Turkey in 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Mission: Ararat 2016 was...
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Mosque in Moshi, Tanzania: “None to be worshipped but Allah.” (Photo by Gary Fallesen) The Muslim world is observing Ramadan. See Project Prayer: Ramadan 2017. In Tanzania, Climbing For Christ kingdom worker Damson Samson is meeting this week with and teaching guides and porters who are members of the Kilimanjaro Chapter. Watch for a “Mission Moments” update on this work in Tanzania. Also, Climbing For Christ is preparing for its 10th mission in 11 years to Kilimanjaro in late November and early December. CLICK HERE to learn more. Mount Kilimanjaro is where Climbing...
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  One of several valleys trekked by C4C teams visiting Nepal’s Far West district of Huma. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) “Those are the people who are here to ruin our religion,” the Buddhist monk muttered as he walked away from our team in Simikot, a town in Nepal’s northwestern district of Humla. We were there to dedicate a newly built church (the district’s first and our fourth blessed build in Nepal). In 2012, God led us to Humla, where we met seven Christian men in one village and a brother and sister who believed in Jesus in another village. They wer...
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The newly built church at Simikot. (Photo by Pastor Harka) Christ, our cornerstone By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ “What is this church building constructed from?” I asked our Nepali brothers and sisters in Christ as they sat on the ground inside what was then an unfinished structure. The correct answer: stones. “What is our foundation as a church body?” I asked. Answer: God. “God tells the prophet Isaiah (in Isaiah 28:16), ‘I am the One who has laid as a foundation … a stone, a tested stone, a precious cor...
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The church at Simikot under construction on Sept. 27. (Photo by Brandy Fisher) CLICK HERE to read the Mission: Nepal 2016, Part 2 Trip Report, “The seed of the church.” Photos of the Week are for sale – 8-by-12-inch prints suitable for framing – for $25 plus shipping. Email your order to info@ClimbingForChrist.org. Your support will help put us in places where we can take more pictures as witnesses of our Triune God.
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  The church being built at Simikot on Sept. 6. (Photo by Pastor Harka) CLICK HERE to read daily Dispatches from Mission: Nepal 2016, Part 2. Photos of the Week are for sale – 8-by-12-inch prints suitable for framing – for $25 plus shipping. Email your order to info@ClimbingForChrist.org. Your support will help put us in places where we can take more pictures as witnesses of our Triune God.  
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  The newly dug borehole working in the Koma Hills. (Photo by Chris Joseph) “The villagers are enjoying the borehole,” Pastor Chris reported recently from Nigeria. “As you can see in the picture, there are jerricans [containers for liquids usually holding about five U.S. gallons or roughly 19 liters] of water at the base of it. I even washed my clothes and took my bath with the water.” CLICK HERE to read “Water for the Koma Hills.” Photos of the Week are for sale – 8-by-12-inch prints suitable for framing – for $25 plus shippin...
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  Working the land to grow a church in Humla. This is the fourth church in Nepal and ninth overall that God has used C4C to build. CLICK HERE to read our Mission Moments story, “On these rocks we will build His church.” Photos of the Week are for sale – 8-by-12-inch prints suitable for framing – for $25 plus shipping. Email your order to info@ClimbingForChrist.org. Your support will help put us in places where we can take more pictures as witnesses of our Triune God.
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  Damson Samson, right, harvests a field of bricks to build more homes for widows in southern Malawi. Ten houses have been built for widows in southern Malawi as part of our Project 1:27, based on James 1:27, which tells us “to look after orphans and widows in their distress.” We have been blessed to provide shelter for Esnala Suwed, Adunia Muwake and Langton Kapito in Manyowa; Aggesse Botomani and Aggese Vareya in Msema; Agerena Magrata, Fages Mandota and Elinala Damson in Ngoma; and Elizabeth Buleya and Lonely Mugwa in Singano. CLICK HERE to read our Mission Moments...
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Damson, right, giving out jackets to widows in villages around him in southern Malawi. “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me…  Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?” – Matthew 25:35-38 (ESV) We have fed the widows in several villages in southern Malawi, a...
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Pastor Chris trying out the new borehole well in Nigeria's Koma Hills. (Photos provided by Chris Joseph) CLICK HERE to read Water for the Koma Hills, Borehole project goal: opportunity to deliver Living Water.

  A house where there was none. (Photo by Damson Samson) By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ Every night when I go to bed with a roof over my head, I think of the widows in southern Malawi who aren’t blessed with such luxury. I think of the widows we have met on Mission: Malawi and how we need to do more to help them. We need US$1,600 to finish four houses for a group of widows who Climbing For Christ missionary Damson Samson has been ministering to since the beginning of the year. So far, we have rebuilt six houses for $2,200. The photo above is of Ag...
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  Stonewall: Pastor Harka, left, and workers last week building “on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone” (Ephesians 2:20) for the church at Simikot. (Photo provided by Megh Gurung) The church at Simikot is under construction in Nepal’s Far West district of Humla. It is the first church to be built there. Rocks are being delivered by donkey and timber has been ordered at the village lumberyard for this church building, which is being funded by Climbing For Christ. This is the ninth church God has used C4C to bui...
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  SARA Children’s Home. (Photo by Elaine Fallesen) There are nearly 50 children cared for by Nepali partner ministry SARA outside of Kathmandu. We support SARA and these children through Project 1:27, which is based on James 1:27 (“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”). This relationship started in 2011. Mission: Nepal teams have visited the SARA Children’s Home nine times, including our Mission: Nepal 2016, Part 1 team. CL...
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  Food delivery. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) “Being part of the food distributions and watching such joy and relief; hope filling the desperate eyes of these brave and hurting people was an absolute highlight,” said Michele Annibal, a Climbing For Christ board member from Philadelphia, PA, USA and a participant in Mission: Malawi 2016. “They celebrated more about some kilograms of maize than some Americans would celebrate a free car. It underscored for me just how hungry they are, how every day is a struggle, and yet they persist in hope and praise God for what lit...
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Maize stunted by the lack of rain in Malawi. (Photo by Duncan Nyozani) As we were preparing to GO on Mission: Malawi 2016, we were alerted that this Southern African nation is on the brink of famine. “The problem is very serious,” said Pastor Duncan Nyozani, a Climbing For Christ member and ministry partner who (among other things) oversees the orphanage C4C supports. “We planted, but the rains are not coming. All the crops are drying right now. People are starving. Please remember us in your prayers. Food prices are very expensive … some kids are eating thi...
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  A rainbow appears over the church at Chalhua in the Peruvian Andes on Dec. 5, 2015. (Photo by Jaime Servat) “And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.” – 2 Peter 1:4 (NLT) The pastor who started a house church in 2009 welcomed our Mission: Peru 2011 team to Chalhua, a dirt-poor mountain village sitting at 11,900 feet in the Cordillera Blanca mountains. Twenty-two people were crowding into...
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A shepherd keeping watch on his sheep in the Atlas Mountains. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) CLICK HERE for the Expedition Morocco 2015 Trip Report: “God speaks in the Atlas Mountains.” Photos of the Week are for sale – 8-by-12-inch prints suitable for framing – for $25 plus shipping. Email your order to info@ClimbingForChrist.org. Your support will help put us in places where we can take more pictures as witnesses of our Triune God.  
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A village in the Atlas Mountains. CLICK HERE for daily Dispatches from Expedition Morocco 2015. Photos of the Week are for sale – 8-by-12-inch prints suitable for framing – for $25 plus shipping. Email your order to info@ClimbingForChrist.org. Your support will help put us in places where we can take more pictures as witnesses of our Triune God.  
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