Results 2018 | Danish European Mission

Afghanistan

Free medical care for the poor

Afghanistan is poor and unstable, but 833 poor people received medical care in 2018 thanks to support from Danish European Mission donors. Poor Afghans can receive treatment for ear, nose and throat diseases, malaria, dental problems, burns and vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

For security reasons, we cannot mention in which countries these secret projects take place or describe in detail the nature of the work.

Bible translation and distribution

Danish European Mission donors continue to support the translation of the Bible for a predominantly Muslim people group in Central Asia.
This year, Danish European Mission donors helped distribute 200 Bibles to persecuted Christians in a country where people have limited access to the Bible.

Help for the exposed and vulnerable

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In 2018, Danish European Mission donors contributed to 317 women and 28 children receiving help at a shelter. The work is carried out by persecuted Christians. The women in the project's target group are either victims of violence, have been involved in prostitution or have been trafficked. At the shelter, it is possible to stay in a shelter where the women are safe. In addition, they receive counseling, medical and legal assistance to the extent necessary. Finally, they receive job training through courses in sewing, jewelry making, cosmetology and cooking. This gives them the opportunity to look for work or start their own business and become self-sufficient.
In a Central Asian country, a church continued to provide bags of hope to the disadvantaged in a residential area where the church is located.
A Christian rehabilitation center for drug addicts continues to benefit from the sheep that Danish European Mission secured for them in 2012. The sheep were bred and the rehabilitation center could be supplied with meat.

Theological education

This is a pioneering project. People from a majority ethnic group in a Central Asian country are now receiving theological education. The training is crucial as the church is young and needs solid Bible-based teaching so that new believers receive sound training.
In 2018, Danish European Mission donors ensured that 34 pastors received theological training.

In 2018, donors ensured that 10,563 people received help.

The aid consisted of emergency aid for persecuted Christians and people from other minority backgrounds displaced by Islamic State. Recipients received food, water, hygiene items, medicine and cooking utensils.
In addition, Christians and other displaced people were helped to return to the villages from which Islamic State had driven them out. The project repaired village schools and clinics and restored power and water supplies. The men received job training, including electrician skills, so they could rebuild their houses. Women received job training as seamstresses.
Finally, women and children received trauma treatment. The target group was women who had been sex slaves for Islamic State, war widows or simply very poor. At a job training center run by convert Christians, they were able to find a community of like-minded people, receive pastoral care and job training. For some, meeting local Christian converts led them to seek answers in the Christian faith.

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Thanks to the support of donors to the Danish European Mission, it was possible to print and smuggle 37,626 copies of the New Testament to Iran in 2018. The Islamic clerical regime persecutes Christians, but at the same time many inhabitants question Islam and seek answers in the Christian faith.

Donors to the Danish European Mission provided financial support for eight girls to stay at Egehuset, a home for former orphanage children. The girls have no family to stay with when they can no longer live in state-run orphanages. At Egehuset, local Christians care for them and encourage the 8 girls to complete secondary education, as well as socially equipping them to function in society. Several of the girls have come to faith in Jesus through their participation in the project.

Danish European Mission's donors support SAT-7's work to communicate God's love through television and digital media. SAT-7 works in 25 countries and has the potential to reach 400 million people with the Gospel.

Help for North Korean refugees

Danish European Mission donors helped 61 North Korean refugees - men, women, children and elderly - escape from China to a safe third country. North Korea is one of the world's most oppressive dictatorships and the health situation is catastrophic. According to the UN Food Program, 40 % of North Koreans are malnourished. As a result, some flee to China, which does not grant them asylum. Instead, China sends the North Koreans back to North Korea, where they risk imprisonment because they fled.
The support also ensured that 4 abandoned children, whose mothers were North Korean refugees who were discovered and forcibly repatriated to North Korea, could be fostered by Christians in China. In addition, 34 children in similar situations received food subsidies while living with their non-biological grandparents in China.

Smuggling of necessities

Inside North Korea, thousands were handed small bags of seed packed by volunteers in Seoul.
47,897 packages of freeze-dried food, consisting of rice, dried vegetables and meat powder, were brought into a remote part of North Korea where persecuted Christians are exiled.
With the support of Danish European Mission donors, one of our project partners was able to rescue 13 women from marriages sold to human traffickers. The women were in their 20s and up to 60 years old!
Thousands of North Korean Christians have been given medicine. The medicines were smuggled across the border and are for dysentery, diarrhea, tuberculosis, influenza and other infectious diseases, arthritis and colds. Dietary supplements have also been distributed.

In 2018, donors ensured that 32,176 people received help from the Danish European Mission.

The aid consisted of emergency aid for persecuted Christians from the Afrin province and other minority backgrounds displaced by the Islamic State. The recipients received food, hygiene items, water, medicine and cooking utensils.
Many Muslims and people from non-Christian minorities ask questions when Christians help not only other Christians, but also non-Christians. Some are touched by the care and love Christians show and become curious about Jesus.
Christians were also able to attend school. Due to the civil war that began in 2011, the school system in Syria has partially collapsed. This is causing many Christian parents to consider fleeing to the West to give their children a better future. However, an exodus of Christians is not good for the local churches or the country as a whole, as Christians contribute positively to society. By supporting schooling for Syrian Christians, Christian parents can have a reason to stay in Syria despite the war and make a positive difference.

In 2018, Danish European Mission's donors ensured that 4083 Bibles could be distributed in Sri Lanka. The Bibles were given to Christian pastors and leaders who passed them on to Christians who cannot afford to buy a Bible themselves.
37 poor priests and their families received help for self-help. The aid consisted of chickens and cattle, which can be raised and sold for profit. This self-help is a great blessing in their ministry in the cities where they plant churches. In some cases, the families are pioneering missions and are the only Christians in their villages.

In 2018, Danish European Mission donors supported Kanal Hayat, which utilizes the latest technology to produce Christian videos for Turkey's youth. The channel seeks to reach young people by creating informative, investigative and educational material about Christianity.