This week, travel with us to the African country of Zambia where you’ll meet a woman named Lilian. She’s a mother of 10 and earns a humble wage making charcoal to sell. Although Lilian has many challenges in life, she finds solace in church. Unfortunately, her church structure is inadequate. Your...

This week, Maranatha’s crew in Kenya travels to “the middle of nowhere” to drill water wells for the Daasanach tribe. This place, called Ileret, is very far from modern civilization, so the team had to pack everything they’d need for a 30-day expedition into the bush. Once they completed the five...

This week, travel with our well-drilling crew in Kenya as they make a 30-day expedition to one of the most remote parts of the country: Ileret. It would be so far away from goods and services that they’d have to pack everything they needed—food, water, gasoline, equipment, supplies, etc. All of i...

This week, we’ll learn about a unique culture group right here in North America—the Hutterites. Hutterites are similar to the Amish or Mennonites, valuing community and traditional ways of living. Chris Hofer is a Maranatha volunteer who grew up in a Hutterite colony in North Dakota. As a teenage...

This week, come with us to the beautiful South American country of Bolivia. Here, you’ll meet Benedicto and Anacleta Ventura, a husband and wife team committed to spreading the Good News in their area. The Venturas lived in the big city of Cochabamba, but as they helped people in the community of...

This week, we’ll visit the contrasting country of Angola. Although the capital city of Luanda is modernizing, many parts of Angola are still recovering from decades of civil war. In today’s video, your kids will see what life is like in one of the “musseques” or slums of Luanda. Despite the disma...

This week, you’ll get to see the Central American nation of Panama. Famous for the Panama Canal and the large capital of Panama City, this country also has a growing Seventh-day Adventist membership that is eager to spread the Good News to its neighbors. Your kids will meet one group of church me...

This week, come with us to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, home to two countries: Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Maranatha has worked in both nations over the years, but our significant contributions in the Dominican Republic have led to a large increase in membership for the Seventh-day A...

This week, we’ll travel to the South American country of Ecuador for an usual Christmas setting—a mission trip! Instead of focusing on Christmas presents and other familiar holiday traditions, these adventurous families decided to serve. Your kids will see how this project gave volunteers new per...

This week, we’re inviting you to read this story (BELOW ⬇️) to your kids about one girl’s daily struggle for water, and how Maranatha helped. Then watch the above video of her collecting dirty water from a dry riverbed in Kenya. We hope it inspires your children to consider their own water situat...

This week, we’ll meet members of the very first Hispanic Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America: the Tucson Central Church in Arizona. For many years, this faith group bounced from rented space to rented space, and every time they moved, they lost some of their members. They just had to fi...

This week, we’re looking at the different types of food found in the country of India. Your kids will see the markets where people buy their food, and learn about common meal components like curries. They’ll also consider how cooking might be difficult without clean water, which is a predicament ...

This week, we want to share something special that Maranatha is participating in called #GivingTuesday. Each year on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, people give to a cause that is close to their heart. This year in 2021, #GivingTuesday is on November 30, and Maranatha is working to raise $210,000...

This week, we look at how different cultures around the world give thanks. From church dedications in India, to well drilling in Zimbabwe, see how different people show their gratitude, and consider what you have to be thankful for!

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Pre-video Discussion Questions
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This week, we’re headed to the Dominican Republic--a country that is special to Maranatha as it is the first place where we organized a major construction effort (see below in “Did You Know?”). Today’s story takes place in 2015, when we met a man called Papun. His church used to meet in his home ...

This week, travel with us to the country of Kenya where we’ll visit the Kiirua Adventist School. The school started in 1989 with only two classrooms, but now there are more than 200 students that attend. Unfortunately, the buildings are showing their age, especially the dorms. Your kids will see ...

This week, we’ll be learning about the fascinating country of India! There are many unique aspects of this country, from the languages to the clothing to the religions. Your kids will get a taste for what India is like and meet a student at the Khunti Adventist School named Arzoo Warsi. Arzoo gre...

This week, we’ll travel to the northern part of Brazil to meet a colporteur named Maria. Colporteurs sell religious books door-to-door for a living, but Maria didn’t simply sell books to earn a wage for herself. She realized there were many congregations in her area meeting in bad conditions, and...

This week, meet Sonia Feraude and her husband Simon Choque, two of the founding members of the Chimba Seventh-day Adventist congregation in Bolivia. These small business owners tried a number of outreach activities in their community to bring people to their congregation. Each time there would be...

This week, meet João Gabriel and Maria da Conceição, a husband and wife fishing team in the coastal town of Destaque, in the country of Angola. Fishing is a big industry in this African nation, and the more fish you catch, the more money you make. Most fishermen are out in the ocean on their boat...

This week, travel with us to Lake Titicaca, the largest lake in South America. Here, we’ll meet the Uros people, who live on this lake which is shared by Peru and Bolivia at 12,500 feet above sea level. For generations, the Uros have used the reeds of the totora plant for many things, including c...

This week, meet ​​Audrey Ncube, a Seventh-day Adventist in Zimbabwe. Audrey and her sister moved to a town with no Adventist church. In fact, the nearest one was 28 miles away! For a while, the sisters met for worship in their homes, but they soon outgrew those spaces and were forced to meet outs...

This Sabbath, September 18, is our virtual convention, Mission: Maranatha. Your family can watch together live at 2 p.m. Pacific on 3ABN and Hope Channel. Or watch online anytime starting September 18 on our website, Facebook, YouTube, or The Maranatha Channel app. Although we wish it could be a...

This week, meet two dedicated church members in Peru who made great personal sacrifices to support their church community. A restaurant owner named Victor donated his garage as a meeting space for the congregation to meet in. Later, a new church member named Maria donated her house as a place to ...