The Swayambhunath stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) We know it as the Monkey Temple. It is a religious complex and major tourist attraction sitting on a hilltop in the capital of what was once a Hindu kingdom. It is home to one of the holiest Buddhist stupas in Nepal. But the Buddhist stupa (or place of meditation) is surrounded by Hindu temples. Not to mention hundreds of what are considered “holy” monkeys. Swayambhunath – the Monkey Temple’s real name – is a place of worship for Buddhist and Hindu, alike. “There are some similar H...
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The people of Kalmette, Haiti receiving food. (Photo by C4CNG) CLICK HERE for the latest on COVID-19 pandemic relief.

Under construction: Building the church at Pokhara, which will double as a training center. (Photo by Megh Gurung)

Food delivered to the church in Humla, Nepal. (Photo provided by Megh Gurung) We give thanks for the response to our COVID-19 Relief Challenge. Donations made in early September 2020 were matched by a Climbing For Christ member and we were blessed with nearly $37,000 USD! Funds are being distributed in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, India, Malawi, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, Tanzania, and Turkey. We praise God for providing more than $67,500 USD since May 2020 to feed the physical and spiritual needs of people in now nine countries. Megh Gurung, our Kingdom worker in Nepal, rep...
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We continue to receive updates from Kingdom worker Megh Gurung in Nepal on the construction of the church and training center in Pokhara, where we hope to spend time in the future teaching DMD classes. The COVID-19 pandemic may have forced the postponement of Mission: Nepal 2020, but it does not stop what the Lord is doing there.
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Widows in southern Malawi celebrate the gift of food from God through Climbing For Christ. (Photo by Damson Samson) CLICK HERE to read our Mission Moments: Malawi story, “The care of God the Father.”

Mount Ararat. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) Climbing For Christ has returned to Mount Ararat for the first time since 2015. CLICK HERE to read daily Dispatches from Mission: Ararat 2020.

“If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it?” – Luke 15:4. (Photos by Gary Fallesen) Outreach around Mount Suphan in eastern Turkey. CLICK HERE for daily Dispatches from Mission: Ararat 2020.
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COVID-19 relief delivered to Humla in Nepal’s remote northwest corner. (Photo provided by Megh Gurung) Climbing For Christ continues to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by sending relief to our Kingdom workers and ministry partners in eight countries. We rejoice in what God has done, is doing, and will do through His people despite the coronavirus, national lockdowns, and ongoing travel restrictions. CLICK HERE to read the latest Pandemic S.O.S. update, “No food, no money, no worries – God delivers.”
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Climbing For Christ Peru members delivering food supplies to Quechua people living in the remote mountains. (Photo by Edwin Milla) CLICK HERE to read about this COVID-19 relief Mission Moment in Peru, “Contagious Christians.”

Food delivered in Malawi as part of our COVID-19 relief effort. (Photo by Damson Samson) CLICK HERE to read “Rivers of tears” and see more photos from these Mission Moment in Malawi.

Semi-nomadic Kurdish shepherds shearing sheep on Mount Ararat. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) The 15-million-plus Kurds living in Turkey are predominantly Muslim. CLICK HERE to read Project Prayer: Ramadan 2020. We also are praying for Mission: Ararat 2020. CLICK HERE to learn more.

A widow in southern Malawi uses her gift from Climbing For Christ – a 10-liter water bucket – so her grandchildren can wash their hands. (Photo by Damson Samson) CLICK HERE for this Mission Moments: Malawi story, “Wash your hands – if you can.”

Candamena Canyon in Mexico, where our team trekked in April 2005. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) Memory Lane: On roads less traveled On April 12, 2005, then-Board member Cheryl Esper and her family hit the road from Long Lake, NY to start a 2,400-mile drive to El Paso, TX, where they would meet six other members of the Mission: Mexico 2005 team. We were headed for the Sierra Madre Mountains in the remote northern Mexico state of Chihuahua. It was Climbing For Christ’s inaugural Evangelic Expedition. I was on my first mission trip. It started, fittingly I thought, with me digging ditches...
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Climbing For Christ’s Damson Samson, right, leads our Mulanje Massif Chapter members in prayer after they sang and danced around the room to the song “Jesus is coming around the corner” during a time of worship. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) Climbing For Christ continues to serve the spiritual and physical needs in southern Malawi through disciples-making-disciples training of guides and porters in the Mulanje Massif Chapter, medical clinics, and time with widows and orphans. CLICK HERE to read this week’s daily Dispatches from Mission: Malawi 2020.
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Crossing a snowy pass to reach a village in the Peruvian Andes. (Photo by Edwin Milla) Edwin Milla resumed the work of Climbing For Christ three months after the death of long-time indigenous missionary Jaime Servat and one month after he’d accepted the call to follow in his friend Jaime’s footsteps. Edwin, a professional guide, has the ability to GO farther than Jaime could in his eight years serving with us. He will seek the lost in the most remote of locations in the Peruvian Andes. He also will guide us on Mission: Peru 2020 in late October and early November. CLICK H...
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There is a saying in Malawi: “God can’t sleep.” Psalm 121:4 tells us God “never slumbers or sleeps.” The hunger situation in Malawi remains “critical.” For the second time in as many months, Kingdom worker Damson Samson delivered maize purchased with funding provided through Climbing For Christ. He shared 100 50-kilogram bags (more than 11,000 pounds) of grain. CLICK HERE to read the Mission Moments: Malawi story, “God can’t sleep.”
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A “vote of thanks” from widows in Manasi village to Climbing For Christ members around the world. “‘Don’t worry for what you will eat’ [Matthew 6:25]. This has come true to us. Three days with no food, but today will be another story. Thank Jesus!” (Photo by Damson Samson) Climbing For Christ was blessed (with more than $13,000 in food relief funding) to bless others (from Damson’s widows to members of Pastor Duncan Nyozani’s churches). CLICK HERE to read “Demonstrating God’s love,” a Mission Moments: Malawi report. ...
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Gilbert Lindor, Gary Fallesen, Elaine Fallesen and Missy Jean Dedrick in Loveland, CO during Gilbert’s Jan. 3-19 visit to receive a new prosthetic leg. CLICK HERE to read our daily blog from these special Mission Moments: Haiti.

 Joe Johnson, left, and Brendan Tuchowski work with Gilbert Lindor as he receives the gift of a prosthetic leg from Quorum Prosthetics in Windsor, CO. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) CLICK HERE to read the first Mission Moments: Haiti reports of 2020, “Gilbert returns to Colorado.”