When you serve God and love people, sometimes God gives you a “holy moment.” Dara Vanden Bosch, ASM’s Compassionate Care Coordinator, explains. Click on the play button to hear the full story from Dara. Since the 2021 Mozambique Container had just arrived, thanks to your generosity, at the appropriate moment, Dara...
Your prayers were answered! On 30 July the 40-foot container you helped send to Mozambique arrived safely, filled with much-needed audio recording and agricultural equipment, medical and humanitarian supplies. Despite some intense adventures with a winch and chain snapping while hoisting the already-unloaded 4-ton container off the truck, we praise...
Pain. Loneliness. Hopelessness. Covered in the gloom of despair. These were the daily realities Roda faced, with no end in sight. When Dara Vanden Bosch, ASM Compassionate Care Coordinator, and her team first visited her, Roda was grateful for the blanket they provided, “so there will be something nice to...
That isn’t a typo and YES you did read that right. Of course, there really isn’t a “g” in the spelling of the word partnership, at least not in its English spelling! Yet, there is a “g” in partnerships at Audio Scripture Ministries (ASM) because the ‘“g” represents Gospel Partnerships. ASM...
For the average family in central Mozambique, it has been a painful start to 2021. Two back-to-back cyclones in January brought 10-15 inches of sudden rain. Because 90% of the community are subsistence farmers, living off whatever they can grow in an acre or so, this was devastating. As Chad...
You’ve likely seen the statement, “The worst purchase I made in 2020 was a calendar day planner!” 2020 was, and 2021 is, a year of surrender—surrendering our routines, plans, and comforts. Trusting, adjusting, and planning for the unknown. Many of us are ready to go on vacation, go out to...
Why Send Art Supplies to Mozambique? A few years ago, after many challenges in Mozambique, an adoption that was making us feel “trapped” (within a small radius in a foreign land with a small support system), someone said to me, “Dara, go back to your younger self. Who were you...
Mozambique is considered one of the poorest countries in the world (usatoday.com), a situation compounded by social and political upheavel. “Wars and rumors of war” (Matthew 24) can be a daily reality for many Mozambicans. Our Compassionate Care (CC) Team is on the front lines of serving the critically ill and...
“God is in heaven and you are His angels,” a patient told ASM’s Mozambique Compassionate Care Team. As hospitals in the region prepared for the spread of COVID-19 earlier this year, unfortunately, some basic health care needs were not met. Fernando, a young teacher, had called the Compassionate Care Team...