Apple(fest) of our eye
Forget pumpkin spice, there are apple drinks to be had at the Hilton (NY) Apple Festival Oct. 3 and 4. It’s one of several events on the Western New York calendar as we enter the fall season of fundraising events and annual Board meetings.
Pray for those impacted by devastating flood
Devastating flash flood strikes Nepal.
Mission: Japan 2026
Mission: Japan 2026 is scheduled Aug. 21-31. This is our second visit to Japan, which we hope one day will be called the Land of the Rising Son.
Mission: Kilimanjaro 2026
Climbing For Christ’s 19th short-term mission to Africa’s tallest mountain, where scores of guides and porters are being taught to be disciples who make disciples and trained to do outreach among the lost on Mount Kilimanjaro. This expedition is scheduled July 24-Aug. 9.
Guides and porters outreach on Mulanje Massif
A week of prayer, teaching, and outreach on Mulanje Massif for guides and porters from Climbing For Christ's chapter in southern Malawi.
Mission: Peru 2026
Mission: Peru 2026 returns to the village of Chalhua, where Climbing For Christ built a church in 2015. Ten days of outreach in Cordillera Blanca mountain villages is planned. The expedition is scheduled May 3-19. Check back for daily Dispatches.
Nationality: German. Occupation: YMCA Secretary. Missions with C4C: Peru 2026. How long have you climbed? I’m not really into climbing, but I enjoy doing it every now and then. Type of climbing you do: Sometimes bouldering.
Kilimanjaro Chapter training (first quarter 2026)
Africa coordinator Damson Samson witnessed the Spirit leading 48 people to faith in Jesus, the sick being healed, and a community of people (Maasai) often neglected being shown the love of God. When he left Malawi for his 40th quarterly visit for disciple-making training of Kilimanjaro Chapter guides and porters since answering the call to serve the Lord through Climbing For Christ in 2014, he could not imagine the fruit of this trip.
Kilimanjaro Chapter training (first quarter 2026)
Africa coordinator Damson Samson returns to Tanzania for the Kilimanjaro Chapter’s DMD training for the first quarter of 2026.
God answers prayer for food
“We needed the answer to this njala (hunger). Now God has done it to His glory,” Africa coordinator Damson Samson told the 620 widows who received food from Climbing For Christ. It took barely 96 hours from a prayer flare sent to C4C’s global Prayer Team to the distribution of the first food to hungry people in Malawi.