Baby Boxes are a Vital Tool for Evangelism
IVAN IVANOV, Bulgaria
Our worker Ivan is responsible for the distribution of Baby Boxes and evangelism in the southern Turkish and Roma areas.
While visiting the slum villages in the summer, he was diagnosed with covid-19 and had to be hospitalized.
Despite his sick leave, Ivan has been able to take aid and the gospel to hundreds of destitute families this year with the help of our team.
Mission Possible’s team has visited many villages whose residents – most of them Roma – live under very difficult conditions. The villages are quite large, but it is difficult for anyone to make ends meet. Without vocational training, adults can’t find full-time jobs. In the summers they look for work as field laborers. They also travel around collecting herbs to sell, living in tents as they wander.
The churches in these villages are full of believers with sincere faith and trust in God. Congregations take care of new believers, help them change their old ways of life, and teach them to walk as disciples of Jesus. In some communities crime has been reduced as more people turn to Christ.
Baby Boxes give us a great opportunity to establish contact with a key person in the family: the mother.
In these families it is the mother who teaches and raises the children. Through distribution of the Boxes, we can bring relief and care to mothers and their infants.
Proclaiming the gospel,
not only with words
but with concrete acts of love,
opens hearts.
The church pastors in the villages where Baby Boxes have been distributed have told me these resources are a great blessing to the community and have brought wonderful results.
Mothers who had not previously attended church gatherings are now actively involved. They are grateful for the help they received through the Baby Boxes with the arrival of their newborns.
The Baby Box program encourages women in the churches to reach out to others.
Women who used to come and just passively listen now have a way to put their faith in action. Mothers are helping other mothers. This creates new connections between members of the fellowship. Volunteers visit Mission Possible’s operations center in Dobromirka to help fill the Baby Boxes.
We are looking for more congregations
to partner with so the Baby Box project can expand.
This kind of evangelism is fruitful.
Our goal is to show the love of Christ to more and more mothers and families. We are grateful to everyone who participates in this program.
Blessings to you, friends, and let’s bear one another’s burdens as the Bible teaches!
PHOTO: Before winter hits, we distribute warm jackets and shoes to hundreds of children in slum villages. Pictured are Ivan and a boy from a Turkish village looking for the right sized jacket.
