God’s Word for the Forgotten
IN SOUTH SUDAN, ALUEL HAD NEVER HEARD THE STORY OF JESUS
Brutal conflict and ongoing instability made many communities in South Sudan difficult and dangerous to reach — and in the middle of this, many families still keep to traditional religions of worshipping spirits and household idols.
Aluel came from a family like this, in a town easy to overlook and hard to reach — but because of friends like you, she wasn’t forgotten. When you sent God’s Big Story to the church in her town, things began to change.
First, 13-year-old Aluel saw The GodMan film and asked the Sunday school teacher: Why did Jesus allow Himself to be killed? Why did He pray for the people who hung Him on the cross? When Aluel understood that Jesus was a sacrifice for sins, she chose Him as her Savior!
Through God’s Big Story, she came to understand even more about the Bible’s metanarrative of redemption … and realized that her parents’ idol worship was sin. She began to pray for them, and soon told her mother the Gospel story and invited her to church.
Today, Aluel and her whole family are following Jesus and attending church together — in a place many would have written off as too hard to reach. Thank you for introducing Aluel and her family to the life-transforming power of God’s Word.
Now you can reach even more children like Aluel with God’s Word, and your impact will be DOUBLED. The $1 million The Forgotten Matching Challenge opens the door for you to reach twice as many forgotten young people in difficult-to-reach places!
Aluel and her whole family are following Jesus because you sent The GodMan film and God’s Big Story.
YOUR IMPACT WORLDWIDE
A Family Transformed through Your Gift of God’s Word!
Felipe was in despair, his family in turmoil.
His home nation, Bolivia, is struggling as well, with a deep economic crisis that has left many families uncertain about the future.
Young people like Felipe make up a large share of Bolivia’s population: more than a third of Bolivians are between 10 and 28 years old.¹ Yet opportunities are scarce. An estimated one in four young people aged 15 to 28 is neither working nor in school.² The pressures are immense.
“My parents are married, but they have had many problems; they did not know God, and my father drank a lot,” he recalls.
His father worked as a carpenter but drank away his profits and often came home drunk.
“My mother got tired of so much fighting and decided to abandon him,” Felipe says.
With his world in tatters, Felipe drifted deeper into depression — and even tried to commit suicide. By God’s grace, he did not succeed, but he felt hopeless.
Then you sent the Superbook Book of Hope and Felipe learned that he could watch Superbook videos online, too. They pointed him toward a Friend who would never abandon him. He began praying to Jesus — for salvation, for comfort, for guidance.
One day his parents saw him praying …
“When I got up, my mother was crying; my father was also on his knees. My dad hugged me and told me, ‘Son, what did you do? I am feeling something very strange in me,’ and I told him it is called the goodness of God.”
Felipe shared his faith with his parents, and today they are following Jesus and attending church together.
Thank you for sending the gift of God’s Word to give them hope!
You Gave Marthe a Light in the Darkness
Marthe came from a Christian family in Niger, a nation with a large Muslim population. But Marthe herself had never made a personal commitment to the Lord.
Then you sent the OneHope Light in the Darkness Scripture book to Marthe, and she arrived at a turning point as she read the prayer on page 33 and chose to follow Jesus! Today she has been baptized and is growing in her faith.
When Grief Felt Unbearable: Sonya’s Story
Sonya is a teenager living in Central Asia — a region where following Christ can carry real risk. When she connected with one of our online missionaries, she was drowning in questions and pain.
Just two weeks earlier, Sonya had lost her mother. The grief was overwhelming, and in her anguish, she asked the question so many ask in moments of unbearable loss: Why does God allow so much suffering?
The online missionary walked her through Scripture — passages like Matthew 5:4, reminding her that those who mourn will be comforted, and Romans 8:28, revealing that God works all things for good for those who love Him.
By the end of their conversation, Sonya — already a believer — was reminded of eternal hope and encouraged to draw daily strength from God’s Word. In a place where her faith must often remain hidden, your generosity ensured she didn’t have to walk through her grief alone.
In Cambodia, Mon Srey Dy Found Hope in the Book You Sent
Eleven-year-old Mon Srey Dy was growing up Buddhist in Cambodia’s Suong province — until you sent her a copy of World Without Sickness. It’s the Scripture book designed to help children in under-resourced regions learn about Jesus and also about health and hygiene.
One lesson, “Hope and Hygiene,” changed everything for Mon Srey Dy: she learned Jesus had conquered death.
“I was very happy, and I really liked Jesus,” she says.
Now she’s inviting her Buddhist family and friends to church with her — because you reached her first.
Ministry Spotlight: Reaching the Forgotten
At least one-third of the world’s population has never heard about Jesus or had access to God’s Word.
And at least a third of those, over 1 billion, are children and youth.
The world may consider these children and youth forgotten because they live in remote, inaccessible areas or speak a language that few can understand.
With your partnership, we are reaching “the forgotten” with God’s Word in relevant ways.
Unreached Languages. OneHope partners with organizations like Bible Media Group, Salvation Poem Project, and Faith Comes By Hearing to bring Scripture engagement programs in the heart language of people groups who have no Bible in their language.
Unreached People Groups (UPG). More than 7,000 UPGs worldwide have few or no known Christians and no active churches. Through OneHope you partner with global missions organizations to create and distribute Scripture programs:
- Samaritan’s Purse — The Greatest Gift
- World Vision — Empowered
- John C. Maxwell’s EQUIP — Lead Today
- CBN — Superbook
- Joyce Meyer’s Hand of Hope — Unstoppable
- Close the Bible Gap— Partnering to close the gap
Niger: You Are Shining a Beacon of Hope
One of the poorest nations in the world, Niger is a country suffering not only economic chaos, but also extreme social and political upheaval as well.
A majority-Muslim country with a small Christian minority, terrorist attacks plague the nation — and have caused thousands of people to flee their homes in search of safety and refuge.
For the children and youth of one remote refugee camp, you sent a special-edition Book of Hope titled The Friend Who Changed My Life. The young people were thrilled to receive the gift … and many were also moved by the story of Jesus.
From this initial presentation of God’s Word, several children chose Christ as Savior and shared the Good News with their parents. Several moms also made a commitment to follow Jesus — and then some of the dads as well.
But there was no place for them to worship together because the camp had no church — until now! As part of the Lumière Project to see a church planted in every village lacking one, our local partners have now planted a church with 50 members!
This church is a beacon of hope for people who have lost everything and are searching for a brighter future. Thank you for sending them the Word of God to show the way.
LETTER FROM ONEHOPE PRESIDENT
No Child Is Forgotten
Somewhere in the world today a child has never heard the name of Jesus.
Maybe they live hours from the nearest church, speak a language with little Scripture available, or live where following Jesus could come at tremendous cost.
The world may call them hard to reach, but they have never been beyond God’s reach.
That conviction has shaped OneHope from the beginning. Our mission drives us toward every child and youth, especially where reaching them requires us to find new ways forward. That may mean Scripture in a new language, a film for a child who cannot read, a digital missionary connecting across a closed border, or collaboration with a local church serving where we cannot go.
As you’ll see in the stories ahead, God is opening doors. One child encountering God’s Word can become a family following Jesus. An outreach in a refugee community can become a new church. One encounter with Scripture can become the beginning of something far greater.
As you read, remember that you are part of these stories. Your prayers and generosity are carrying God’s Word across barriers of geography, language, persecution, and conflict.
There are still children waiting to hear. Together, let’s remind them: God loves you, and you are not forgotten.
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OneHope Team
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