If you’re an adult of a certain age, you might remember excitedly opening up a Christmas catalog, flipping through the pages, and circling items you hoped to see under the tree on Christmas morning. In this episode of Stories of Hope, hear how many families are beginning a new tradition with a new gift catalogue. This time, however, they’re not circling gifts to receive but gifts to give.

Go to sendrelief.org to see how you, your family and your church can help change someone’s world through the Send Relief Gift Catalogue.

The story of how Reuben Watson went from what he was to what he is, is a story not even the best fiction writer could come up with. In this episode of Stories of Hope, hear the miraculous story about what happened when God took Reuben, a Kentucky child who tried to take his own life “for the first time” when he was 8-years old, and surrounded him with people who loved Jesus.

Find out how you can help protect children and families at SendRelief.org/

It might be the biggest humanitarian crisis you’ve never heard of. When one million Rohingya people were forced to flee their homes in Myanmar, Send Relief partners discovered a creative way to meet their needs and see God change their lives. In this episode of Stories of Hope, hear how they used lights to erase spiritual and literal darkness.

Find out how you can help rescue refugees all over the world at SendRelief.org/

Terry Hudgins grew up watching the commercial—the one that began “I’d like to teach the world to sing.” Terry is not a musician and so, he had no idea that one day, God would give him the opportunity to do just that. In this episode of Stories of Hope, find out what happened when Terry’s Nashville church gathered kids from their neighborhood—kids who just happened to come from countries all over the world—and then helped teach them how to make beautiful music together.

Find out how you and your church can meet needs and see God change the lives of families who’re arriving in your community from all over the world at SendRelief.org/

You can watch children from the Nashville World Outreach Partnership perform a song at https://vimeo.com/708719371/616139c5eb

To learn more about the ministry to refugees and internationals several Nashville churches have launched, visit them online at nashvilleworldoutreach.com

What can one person do? When Russia attacked Ukraine, when tens of thousands of people were killed and hundreds of thousands more were desperately trying to escape their country, Michael Borton felt like he needed to do something. In this episode of Stories of Hope, travel to Eastern Europe with Michael, a youth pastor from North Carolina, and find out how he met needs and saw God change the lives of Ukrainians who’ve had to leave their homes with little more than the clothes on their backs.

Find out how you can reach out to families fleeing the war in Ukraine at SendRelief.org/projects/ukraine

When Jennifer Nolder saw a toddler wandering down the middle of a busy Newnan, Georgia highway, she knew she had to do something. This is not just a story about a lady who brought 39 boys and girls into her home, but a story about how she’s now helping put their broken families back together again.

Find out how you can help protect children and families at SendRelief.org.

Jennifer began a ministry that helps reunite parents and children who’re in the foster care system. You can learn more about that ministry at hoperevisited.org.

People don’t take trips. Trips take people. That’s what Becca Robinson and Brandon Croley learned earlier this year when they signed up for Send Relief’s Memphis Serve Tour. In this episode of Stories of Hope, listen to the Serve Tour audio diary they recorded and learn with them how the unexpected parts of a trip are often the best parts.

Brandon and Becca participated in Send Relief’s Memphis Serve Tour through Forgotten Ministries in Enid, Oklahoma. Visit forgottenministries.com to learn how Forgotten Ministries connects churches to people who need to know the love of Christ.

Watch a video that shows what happened when Brandon, Becca and a team of other Serve Tour volunteers partnered with one Memphis pastor at bit.ly/memphismoment

Find out how you and your church can participate in a Serve Tour at sendrelief.org/serve-tour/

Ronnie Johnson grew up in a Memphis housing project. He’s been shot four times, he has survived four times and he always knew there must be a reason why he escaped an early death over and over again. This is the story of what happened when Ronnie discovered what that reason was.

Watch what happened when volunteer mission teams from Send Relief’s Memphis Serve Tour traveled to Tennessee to work alongside Ronnie. You can see that video at bit.ly/memphismoment

Find out how you can help strengthen communities at SendRelief.org/

Appearances can be deceiving. Everybody used to assume the Cincinnati suburb of Lakota Hills was Anglo and English-speaking. But when Lakota Hills Baptist Church’s English as a Second Language class suddenly went from 5 students to 200, people here realized something unexpected must have taken place. This is a story about what happened when a suburban congregation decided to welcome the world.

Find out how you and your church can care for families from all over the world who’re now arriving in your community at SendRelief.org/

The remote East African village of Kumbawe lived under a witch doctor’s chokehold of fear. But then when she died and her son took over as chief, Send Relief partners recognized they could meet one of the villages most basic human needs and, in doing so, share the gospel. What happened next was as unexpected as it was joyous.