As an integral part of our strategy, World Relief and churches are teaching the value of abstinence, faithfulness within marriage and sexual morality. Bible-based teaching is guiding people towards God s design of a monogamous sexual relationship within marriage. With World Relief s assistance, churches are meeting practical and emotional needs, too. Churches are supporting families caring for sick relatives at home, counseling women with HIV and caring for AIDS orphans. Through World Relief s LifeLoans program, many families are setting up small businesses to boost their income so they can provide for essential needs, including health care.
Hope is in short supply in Africa.
But churches are bringing hope. As a result, many suffering people are turning to Jesus and discovering God s gift of salvation and His promise of eternal life. Pastor Rugubira Theophile leads a support group for women dying of AIDS in Rwanda. Today, these women openly confess that if they die, they have hope, says Rev. Theophile. They know Jesus, he says.