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Working with Other Organizations
- Swords into Plowshares
- A bomb shelter built in Belarus in the 1960's is now used to store humanitarian shipments from the Church, including blankets, medical supplies and wheelchairs. The items are given to people in need.
- Living Water in Africa
- Neil and Marjorie Darlington served as humanitarian missionaries in Ghana where their work included drilling and refurbishing wells and bringing clean water to 190,000 people.
- The Boy Who Moved
- Simon, a boy from the country of Georgia, has muscular dystrophy. He receives a wheelchair from the Church through the efforts of humanitarian missionaries.
- The Crippled Shepherd Who Walked
- As a young boy, Amaraa lost his legs to frostbite. Eventually he joined the Church, and with help from fast offerings, he was fitted with prosthetic limbs, enabling him to begin his schooling again.
- The Hands of a Surgeon
- After Dr. Susan Puls was forced to give up her career as an orthopedic surgeon because of severe joint pain, she was approached to serve with the Church's NRT program. As a volunteer, she has taught many doctors and nurses how to save the lives of newborns.
- And Feet Was I to the Lame
- John and Nancy Hopkins accept a call to serve as welfare missionaries in Mongolia. While serving, they see a woman carrying an eight-year-old boy who had been crippled since birth. A medical shipment arrives and inside is a child-sized wheelchair which is given to the boy.
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