2020 – A Challenging Year!

Staying close to God and His Word has become even more important than ever. Here are some of the ways that God, with your faithful support, has enabled us to continue with His mission in the past year.

As fears and anxiety rose over COVID-19 infection, social isolation, and job losses, biblical resources were rolled out to offer comfort and wisdom from God’s Word.

producing content
producing content

COVID-19 WEBSITES

As many countries go into lockdown to contain the spread of covid-19, we responded quickly by offering God’s Word in creative and innovative ways.

  • Local Content

    YMI, our arm for young adults, launched a microsite putting together resources to strengthen readers.

  • Around the Region

    Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Taiwan started a Chinese COVID-19 website offering teachings by local pastors and touching testimonies by believers from all walks of life, to help readers draw strength and comfort from God’s Word in a personal way.

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online teachings

ONLINE BIBLE TEACHING

While Bible teaching events had to be cancelled, we went online to share God’s Word through videos, live streaming, and podcasts, so that readers would not miss hearing from faithful Bible teachers.

staying in touch
staying in touch

STAYING IN TOUCH

Although necessary lockdowns restricted physical meetings, we tried to stay in close touch with readers personally, visiting, calling, and praying for them.

  • Personal calls

    In Thailand, staff from Our Daily Bread Ministries visited or called some 1,800 readers personally to encourage and pray for them. In Indonesia, when readers called to share their prayer requests with us, we called them after a few days to find out how they were getting along and if there were further things we could pray for them.

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supporting churches

SUPPORTING CHURCHES

As churches sought creative ways to continue reaching out to members and non-believers, we supported them with timely, relevant materials on discipleship, evangelism, and other topics.

  • Resource pages

    Singapore and Indonesia launched a resource page specially for pastors and church workers, giving them access to materials to help them strengthen and encourage church members while the churches were closed and moved online to contain the spread of the virus.

  • Outreach packages

    Our Daily Bread Philippines partnered a local church in "Operation Blessing" relief efforts, including copies of Our Daily Bread in food bags to attend to the spiritual as well as physical needs of communities affected by the lockdown.

encouraging others
encouraging others

ENCOURAGING HEALTH WORKERS

Apart from readers and churches, we also reached out specially to healthcare workers and those at the forefront of the COVID-19 crisis, encouraging them with God’s Word.

  • Thank You packages

    Singapore honoured doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers with more than 3,000 special thank-you packages to show our gratitude and uplift them with a word of encouragement from the Bible.

  • Video testimonies

    Indonesia shared videos of doctors and nurses devoted to the care of Covid-19 patients, as well as testimonies of patients, to honour and inspire others to support and pray for healthcare workers and patients. The videos drew over 500,000 views on social media and touched many.

PRAY WITH US!

We rely on God’s grace to help people stay close to Him and His Word through our biblical resources.

  • Pray with us for . . .

    1. Our team consists of staff, volunteers, and friends of the ministry to remain faithful to the mission and vision that the Lord has called us to.

    2. We will continue to focus on the ministry of the Word—whether print, digital, audio, or video—so that millions will be taught, challenged, and comforted by the faithful teaching of the Bible.

    3. We will look to the Lord who is our Provider for all of our needs for the ministry, to be wise stewards of the resources given to us through His children, and stretch every dollar that we received, for His Kingdom's sake.

Thank you for joining the above number of people in praying with us.
We really appreciate it!