Donors and Prayer Partners of Calvary Road Ministries:
I begin this Update with the quote of the year from a recent new believer and Bible recipient in Darfur, Sudan:
“We were born as Muslims, grew up as Muslims, and lived our lives as Muslims. We have not seen peace in our lives. Peace was absent from within us. We have not been shown love, and love was absent within us. We have not been shown mercy and mercy was absent within us.
After all that has been done to us by people who call themselves Muslims, we have not been shown sympathy, love, or care by Muslims. The people who showed us those qualities are Christians. We have all accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior after hearing the gospel, and seeing it lived out by Christians.”
Thank you for partnering with CRM and living out your Christianity this year. Here is a summary of how God used you to evangelize, train, equip, and help in a multitude of ways our boots-on-the-ground ministry partners and thousands of former Muslim new believers who are living and serving Jesus in hard places in northern and eastern Africa:
- CRM delivered 650 solar powered MP3 players loaded with scripture and gospel films to Darfur, Sudan. An additional 200 MP3 players were delivered to the Wedweil Refugee Camp, the main receiving site for Sudanese refugees, in northwestern South Sudan.
- CRM, in conjunction with several like-minded organizations, funded the purchase and transport of 10,000 hard copy Arabic Bibles to Darfur, Sudan. An additional 200 Bibles were provided for believers in the Wedweil Refugee Camp, and 400 Bibles provided for new Maasai believers in Kenya and Tanzania.
- CRM purchased multiple reels of paper for “Bibles for Africa” to print Arabic New Testaments for Darfurian Sudanese.
- CRM purchased and delivered 800 Creation to Christ and Acts Story Cloths to field ministry partners in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Sudan.
- Thanks to a grant from Send Relief, CRM provided a shelter tarp and 2 blankets to each of 500 displaced Sudanese families living in the open in Darfur.
- CRM funded the evacuation of dozens of Sudanese believers from war zones, or situations involving severe persecution, most of whom were evacuated to Arua, Uganda.
- On a monthly basis, CRM provided for the humanitarian needs of the Sudanese refugee community living in Arua, Uganda, including food, house rentals, medical care, theological education, English acquisition classes, and school fees for children.
- CRM purchased a three wheeled “tuk-tuk” for the Arua refugee community’s use. Their rental houses are located far from the center of Arua where medical facilities and markets are located.
- CRM purchased a motorcycle for a Maasai evangelist in Tanzania who leads his community’s outreach among its neighboring tribes who are primarily Muslim. His ministry requires him to travel over a large area.
- Thanks to grants from the Shai Fund, CRM provided life-saving food relief to approximately 14,500 displaced Sudanese living within Darfur.
- Thanks to another grant from Send Relief, CRM provided food relief for three months for 300 families living in the Wedweil Refugee Camp in northwestern South Sudan.
- A January a CRM-sponsored short term volunteer team ministered to approximately 116 children affiliated with the Oloika Children’s home in southern Kenya.
- CRM funded the fencing and irrigation system for the garden plot of the Oloika Children’s Home, which will help the Home become more self-sustaining.
- In January, CRM leaders trained 36 Kenyan Maasai church leaders using the Acts Story Cloth. CRM brought Emanuel Lazier, a seasoned Maasai pastor in Tanzania, to help lead this event.
- In April, CRM sponsored an Acts Story Cloth training session for Maasai church leaders in northern Tanzania facilitated by Emanuel Lazier and Mikaeli Tatile. Over 70 leaders were trained during the 5-day event.
- Four other CRM affiliated short term evangelism and discipleship teams served among the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania. The teams reported approximately 1,700 Maasai prayed to receive the Lord Jesus.
- Thanks to a gift from In Touch with Charles Stanley, CRM distributed 650 solar powered MP3 players containing the Bible and other digital ministry resources to field ministry partners in Sudan. CRM’s 9-year partnership with In Touch Ministries has enabled CRM to supply its field ministry partners with 3,750 MP3 players and 800 micro-SD cards containing scripture and ministry resources.
- CRM teams delivered 800 Creation to Christ and Acts Story Cloths to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, and Darfur, Sudan.
- As a result of CRM’s work, during 2024, over 633,000 Darfurian Sudanese received a first-time gospel witness, fourteen new house churches were started, and 172 Bible study points were created.
- In September, the 8th annual Round for Refugees Golf Tournament held at the Cherryville Country Club (North Carolina) raised over $19,000 for the benefit of CRM and its ministries. Since its inception, this annual tournament has collectively raised over $88,000.
- CRM supported six boots-on-the-ground evangelism leaders in India, Zambia, Uganda and Kenya.
- CRM enabled believers living within Darfur to hold Christmas celebrations. The celebrations provided a further opportunity for those Christians to evangelize their Muslim friends and neighbors.
- CRM paid for the rebuilding of the Anyuak Baptist Church worship center in the Kalobeyei Settlement of NW Kenya. Their previous worship center, located in the UN Refugee Camp in Kakuma, Kenya, was burned to the ground during tribal fighting within the camp.
- CRM provided scholarships for 17 Sudanese leaders to attend seminaries in Kenya and Uganda.
- CRM enabled its ministry partner in India to carry out three large Creation to Christ Story Cloth training events within the mostly unreached State of Odisha.
As we look forward to 2025, on behalf of our Board, I want to thank each of you who has prayed, donated, or volunteered for one of our short-term mission teams. Our God has been glorified and the name of Jesus exalted. Only our Lord knows just how many souls will be in Heaven for all eternity because of what happened this year. We are excited to see how the Lord will work through CRM in 2025.
I wish you a blessed 2025.
David Crane, President
