ICC’s Bibles and Bikes initiative began as a dream to bring God’s Word to people living in hard-to-reach places. For years, ICC has supported and sent evangelists into heavily persecuted regions — and they’ve gone knowing the ever-present risks of beatings or even death.

We’ve recently expanded our Bibles and Bikes program to Kenya. Despite Kenya’s majority Christian population, Christians often face oppression and persecution in rural Muslim countries. Al-Shabab and other Islamic extremist groups continue to grow in number and influence, posing a growing threat to Christians in the region.

We are now working with more than a dozen evangelists to make their ministries even more effective so they can shepherd more Christians and reach more nonbelievers with the gospel. Our model is the same: provide them with a motorbike and a stack of Bibles so they can live our their God-given gifts of evangelism in their communities.

“My desire is to see the people of this area transformed and come to know Christ, living in peace with one another,” said Moses, an ICC motorbike recipient.

WHAT YOUR GIFT MAY PROVIDE:

• $350 – A new motorbike for a church planter.
• $1,000 – Broadcast the gospel into North Korea.
• $2,000 – Six months of support for a rural evangelist in Africa.

When we first met an Armenian refugee named Narine, she couldn’t stop crying.

The trauma of her family’s forced exit from their ancestral homeland of Artsakh and the hardships they had faced as refugees had broken her spirits. Sorrow seized her as she watched her husband work long hours attempting to provide for their family, only to earn the equivalent of $5 a day. Unable to use her cosmetics training to earn extra income, she felt hopeless.

Then ICC offered Narine the equipment she needed to start a small business. The sudden gratitude and joy Narine felt was so intense that it kept her awake that night.

“Is there still hope?” she said in a text to her friend. “Could it be that God heard my cry?”

Narine’s family is one of the 24 Armenian refugee families ICC helped this year. These beneficiaries are only a few of the 120,000 ethnic Armenian Christians who were forced to flee Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh, in recent years. The genocidal actions of the Azerbaijani military, which targeted Christians during its nine-month blockade of humanitarian corridor in late 2022, forced the families out of their homeland to find food.

WHAT YOUR GIFT MAY PROVIDE: 

• $100 – An emergency food package for a victim of persecution for one month.
• $1,500 – One month of full support for one family escaping persecution.

Fulani militants crept into the Nigerian village in the late hours of the night. When they finished, there were hundreds dead and many mortally wounded. Those who survived were left with their farms desecrated, unable to harvest the crop they had planted and leaving their community vulnerable for mass starvation.

Through ICC’s farm projects, we help vulnerable widows and Christian communities who’ve been victims of persecution regain their livelihoods by providing farming equipment, seed, poultry, and cattle. For more than five years, we’ve worked with farmers in Nigeria, Iraq, India, and beyond to set up self-sustaining farms.

We have seen the fruit of our efforts in Nigeria, where our 20 crop farms feed entire communities of displaced believers. Your gift of $5,000 will help us clear land, equip, and manage a farm for one year; $1,000 will help supply a poultry or fish farm elsewhere for one year. We will provided ongoing updates on how your gift has changed the lives of persecuted believers.

WHAT YOUR GIFT MAY PROVIDE:

• $1,000 – Supply a poultry or fish farm in the Middle East or South Asia.
• $500 – Clear land equip, and manage a farm for one year in Nigeria.

When 8-year-old Pranathi was asked about her life’s ambition, she answered the question without any hesitation.

“I want to become a doctor,” she said.

Although Pranathi knows what she wants to be when she grows up, she must overcome the stigma associated with being a Dalit Christian to achieve her dream. Pranathi’s father, a day laborer, already struggles to meet his family’s daily needs. It would be impossible for him to help his daughter attend medical school on his own.

In the face of these realities, Pranathi attended one of ICC’s Hope Houses in her country for a year. Doing so gave her hope that she could achieve her dream. With improved grades and a growing interest in her studies, Pranathi convinced her father to put her in a private English medium school.

Although it has been challenging for Pranathi to catch up with other students in the class as it is in another language, she passed the class. With gratitude for Hope House, she is looking toward her future, hoping to make her dream of becoming a doctor a reality.

“I do have hope,” she said. “and I will try till the end.” 

WHAT YOUR GIFT MAY PROVIDE:

Each Hope House we start costs about $10,000 to set up and $6,000 annually to run. We invite you to adopt a Hope House, providing life-changing education to hundreds of persecuted Christian children. Your generous sponsorship will help break the cycle of generational persecution, offering these children a haven where they can grow, learn, and thrive. Together, we can build a future and give hope to those like Pranathi who need it most.