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This is What Success Looks Like

A special message from our Program Directors in Mexico, Victor and Lety Velasco:

Hola and Feliz Navidad from Forward Edge and our program down here in Oaxaca, Mexico.

We want to tell you a story of the impact you’re making.

One of the first families to join our program 10 years ago was The Santiago Lugo family. The parents had little education, they were very poor, and all six children were going hungry.

We began to provide them all with nutritious food, doctor visits, safe water to drink, spiritual discipleship, and our daily homework club for the children.

We were also able to offer Berenice’s mother a job as a cook to provide more for the family, and help them get the very first earth-block home through our partner ministry Operation Enduring Homes.

Most importantly, they learned about Jesus, and we were so excited as the whole family decided to get baptized!

She is the first in their family to ever go to college!

We praise God for the miracles He has done for this family, and thank Him for people like you who’ve given generously to make it possible. There are many more families like them in Oaxaca and in other Forward Edge programs around the world who still need your help.

For example, we have three children right now hoping to go to university like Berenice, one being her younger sister Audre.

We want to leave you with a quote from a letter Berenice recently wrote: 

“Thanks to each of those who made possible one of my biggest dreams, a university career. But I am blessed for the best gift anyone could have ever given me…to know God and my savior Jesus Christ.”

This is what success looks like!

Victor and Lety VelascoCountry Directors – Oaxaca, MexicoForward Edge International

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child discipleship

Faith, Family, and the Drumbeat of Ramadan

What does it look like to follow Jesus in a culture where most of your community—and even your own family—follows a different faith? In Kosova, where Ramadan is a time of fasting and nightly celebration, young believers often feel the tension deeply.

This blog, written by our Kosova program directors Nora and Metush, shares the powerful story of Ymer—a boy learning to hold onto Jesus in the middle of cultural and spiritual pressure.

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community support

When God Provides: A Widows Prayer Answered

Meet Madam Matha from the Naamu community in northern Ghana. Her faith was put to the test when her daughter worried about going to school without supplies. What happened next? A miracle of unexpected generosity. Dive into this incredible story and witness how God’s love and provision are making a real difference in their lives through our work.

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community development

Why We Should Involve Children in Development

In his book, “Empowering Children”, former Forward Edge board member, Dr. Ravi Jayakaran, shares the importance of involving children in the process of their own development. When a community invests its resources in its children, it invests in its own future. Just as Forward Edge values all children and believes

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children's programs

Three Elements to Changing Futures

Two Lives Forever Changed  Adriana and Itzel both grew up with difficult home lives but everything changed for them when they joined Trigo y Miel, Forward Edge’s program in Oaxaca, Mexico. As children, they didn’t have many material possessions, but because of the program they were privileged to hear about

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Transform a Child's Life Through Sponsorship

Miredita (hello), my name is Olti

  • location

    Kosova

  • 9 yrs. old

    08-25-2016

Entered the program: March 2025

Olti and his twin brother, Oltin, live with their parents and little brother in a small borrowed third floor apartment in a newer, safe neighborhood. The only drawback is that they live close to a bus station and there is a lot of traffic. The owner of the apartment lives abroad and is allowing the family to stay there.

Olti's parents are both employed. His mother is a hairdresser and his father works as a driver but they still do not make enough to provide for all of the family's needs. Olti's grandparents recently passed away which has made things more difficult as they were helping the family financially and also helping to watch the boys while their parents were working.

Sponsorship Level What's this?

Three $38 sponsorships are needed to cover the complete holistic care of one child. Cover one, two, or three sponsorships.