Sharing God’s love story on Mission: Kilimanjaro
“It was exhilarating to be able to GO again after being grounded from international travel for almost a year,” Climbing For Christ's Elaine Fallesen observed after Mission: Kilimanjaro 2021 was carried out from June 22 to July 8. DMD training with guides, porters, and their wives; delivering COVID-19 relief; climbing Mount Meru, and much more.
God is on the move
By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
Elaine, Gary, and Holly with Osman, an MBB with whom they had just prayed in Dogubayazit, Turkey. (Photo by Behzat Bucak)
It was a prophetic moment, a page out of the Old Testament delivered electronically from ...
Calm before coronavirus
By Gary Fallesen
Founding president, Climbing For Christ
Our celebration with more than 450 widows on March 20 would not have been permitted three days later, when Malawi’s president declared a coronavirus national disaster.
The specter of coronavirus hung over...
Dauson Chonjo, second from right, among guides and porters answering questions asked by Damson Samson, left. (Photo by Elaine Fallesen)
‘I have something to do on the mountain’
By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
Dauson Chonjo was there for the start of Climbin...
The Lord is in the details By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ Trekking toward Tsum Valley in central Nepal. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) Eduárd Nitkovszki went shopping in his native Hungary in preparation for Mission: Nepal 2019, Part 2. Eduárd was excited to f...
Keep the faith
​​Do not grow weary or give up; a harvest will be reaped
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Trekking into the Aladaglar Mountains. (Photo by Gary Fallesen)
By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
Descending off Mount Ararat for the first time in 2010, I was facing an intense batt...
Sulawesi jungles: lush, green, and shrouded in darkness. But God dwells even in the darkness, we are told in 1 Kings 8:12. (Photo by Gary Fallesen)
Fear God, nothing less
An invitation to GO on Mission: Indonesia 2020
By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
Our brother wa...
A white-washed mosque stands in the middle of a village built into the mountainsides in Chenini.
An accessible harvest
Story and photos by Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
The homes are carved into the mountains. Picture a cave worthy of the pages of Architectural Dige...
Following in God’s footsteps By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ Our team treks past the church at Yarsha. (Photos by Gary Fallesen) Wherever you GO, there God is. Moses instructed Joshua not to fear: “The LORD himself goes before you” (Deuteronomy 31:8)...
(Photo illustration with Climbing For Christ ministry life verse by Jesse Eells.)
Making a coffee connection
By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
The work in Tanzania began in a coffee shop in Thailand. John Becker of Africa Inland Mission – and a long-time Climbing F...