Source: Operation Mobilization, September 8, 2020<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the virus spread to Africa, I had the choice to leave for Canada, but I am thankful that I chose to remain in Zambia,\u201d explained Larissa [a Canadian serving with OM]. \u201cGod has used my team in a really special way to continue reaching out to ladies in Zambia and other locations across Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n
To help prevent the spread of COVID-19, almost everything in Zambia, where Larissa works to empower and equip women, came to standstill as lockdowns restricted movement and wearing a face mask became mandatory while interacting with people. Instead of Larissa and her team being restricted, however, they found an opportunity to express love to others by sewing affordable face masks. \u201cOur vision didn\u2019t change\u2014we still wanted to empower women\u2014but our focus for this time had to change,\u201d commented Larissa.<\/p>\n
Sewing as many as 7,000 masks within a few weeks, the effort provided not only a reprieve for people who faced the stark choice of whether to spend their meager earnings on expensive masks or face a jail term for not wearing one but also an income stream for the women training as tailors who are often the breadwinners of their family.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs often in developing countries, the life of a woman is not easy,\u201d observed Larissa. \u201cWomen are often uneducated and illiterate and therefore struggle to generate any form of income.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur vision is to see women empowered, freed from physical and spiritual oppression and become vibrant followers of Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00bb Want more stories about showing effective compassion in challenging times? Read about the ministries in the US (mostly) that won the annual Hope Awards from World Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Operation Mobilization, September 8, 2020 \u201cWhen the virus spread to Africa, I had the choice to leave for Canada, but I am thankful that I chose to remain in Zambia,\u201d explained Larissa [a Canadian serving with OM]. \u201cGod has used my team in a really special way to continue reaching out to ladies in … Continue reading ZAMBIA: Prepared in Season and out of Season<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9550,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9549\/revisions\/9550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}