“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ~ Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel
Dear CRM Family,
I begin this year’s annual report with two testimonies of Darfurian women helped through your donations and prayers.
“I had to flee El Fashir (North Darfur State) for Tawila after a bomb killed my entire family. I arrived here two days ago. Before your organization gave me food and shelter, I received nothing. You are truly blessed. May God bless you and enable you to continue doing good things to help others in need.”
“While we struggled to walk from El Fashir to Tawila, I wanted to die ten times more than I wanted to live even another second. But the food you provided is a true-life saver. It is an act of great mercy that will give us all the strength and hope we so desperately needed. You intervened when we needed it most and showed us God’s love in action.”
On behalf of these women and countless other displaced men, women, and children in Sudan and across northern and eastern Africa, thank you for partnering with CRM and living out your Christianity in 2025. Here is a shortened summary of how God used you to evangelize, train, equip, and help in a multitude of ways our boots-on-the-ground ministry team and thousands of former Muslim new believers who are living and serving Jesus in hard places:
- CRM transported and distributed Bibles and digital gospel resources across Darfur, Sudan, including 15,700 hard copy Arabic Bibles, 650 solar powered MP3 players containing the New Testament, 1,000 micro-SD cards for cell phones containing the New Testament and gospel films, and 16 mini projectors that show gospel films loaded on flash drives. New believers from 13 unreached people groups were among those who received a Bible.
- CRM provided Tanzanian believers with 12 mini projectors for showing gospel films and 600 micro-SD cards for cell phones. Pastor Emanuel Laizer reported that older Maasai men have received the Lord Jesus after listening to the New Testament through their phones, which is unprecedented among the Maasai.
- CRM’s Tanzania Maasai team members started several new churches in the Tanga District among the primarily Muslim Zigua and Nguu people groups utilizing the CRM Story Cloths, mini projectors, SD cards, and CRM pastor training.
- CRM, with grants from like-minded evangelical organizations, provided water filters, life-saving food, and shelter materials (poles, blankets, sleeping mats, and tarps) to 3,600 families comprising 26,584 people—the majority of whom are children and widows. The actual number of those who benefited may be double the official number registered as the registered recipients typically share with others. Providing humanitarian aid enables Darfurian Christians to display the love of Christ for all people, laying the groundwork for significant gospel outcomes.
- CRM funded the digital translation of the Creation to Christ Cloth into two new languages of Odisha State of South India. Pastor Raj also led two Story Cloth training conferences for 82 church leaders in Odisha. The millions of people living in Odisha State are primarily Hindu.
- CRM short term volunteer teams trained 143 male and female church leaders in Uganda and Tanzania, utilizing both the Acts and Creation to Christ Story Cloths. Pastor Austin Rammell taught the Epistle of Galatians to 40 male Sudanese church leaders in Uganda.
- CRM provided scholarships for six South Sudanese pastors to attend seminaries in Kenya and Uganda. One of the pastors, Both Garang, started a Bible school in the U.N. refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya, that graduated 113 students in December. Preparing leaders who can “rightly divide the Word of Truth” in the African context is a CRM priority.
- CRM funded scholarships for the last two years for 12 Darfurian church leaders to attend a seminary in Uganda. Ten of them graduated in October 2025. They are now ready to return to Darfur to preach the gospel despite the obvious danger.
- During 2025, CRM’s Darfurian team started 290 new house churches, 160 preaching points, and 497 small Bible study groups. The gospel was shared with approximately 250,000 hearers of the Word.
- CRM supported church planting among the majority Muslim Aringa people, one of Uganda’s least reached people groups, by providing Bibles, funds to rent a house for a new church, and pastoral care during a recent spate of intense persecution.
- CRM was accredited by the Evangelical Counsel for Financial Accountability (ECFA) and awarded a 100% rating with Charity Navigator and Platinum status with Candid.
On behalf of CRM’s officers and board members, I express my deepest gratitude to you, our supporters, for being neither neutral, nor silent, in 2025. You enabled us to “Share His story, show His compassion, and serve His church” on an unprecedented scale. We’re excited to see what the Lord will do in 2026.
In His Name,
David Crane
President, Calvary Road Ministries