Ministries Making a Difference Bible verse of the year, Christmas for foster families, Bibles for the Koho people, sharing hope at a Venezuelan hospital

YouVersion announced its verse of the year for 2024—Philippians 4:6 was engaged in the Bible app more than any other verse. The words “prayer” and “peace” were also highly searched for. According to YouVersion, the Bible app has been installed on over 740 million unique devices, and offers 3,100 Bible versions in 2,000 languages, all for free and without advertising. YouVersion also produces the Bible App Lite and Bible App for Kids.

Southeast Christian Church in Middletown, Kentucky, hosted the Hope’s Closet 8th annual Christmas celebration. Hundreds of foster families gathered to spend time together, choose from thousands of books and toys, and take pictures with Santa. Hope’s Closet provides foster and adoptive families with children’s items free of charge.

As part of its Asia Bible Fund project, Asia Harvest recently printed and distributed 20,000 full Bibles to the Koho people in their own language. The Kohos are a people group in Vietnam, where access to the Bible is limited since being banned by the Communist government. Asia Harvest says many of the 190,000 Koho people in Vietnam are Christians. Asia Harvest has 5 stars, an “A” transparency grade, and a donor confidence score of 100—the highest scores in each of MinistryWatch’s three categories.

A Nazarene church in Portuguesa, Venezuela—“El Shaday” Iglesia del Nazareno—is ministering to patients at a local hospital. Once a month, church members distribute food and hope at Central Hospital of Acarigua. The team hands out arepas—stuffed cornmeal cakes—before singing praise songs, sharing a Bible message, and praying with patients.

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