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Pray As If This Were Your Family – COVID-19 Update

Kate, Executive Director | Pastor Shalva*, Nepal Country Director | Pastor Peter*, Kashmir Regional Director – May 22nd, 2021 On May 11th, we sent an email asking for support in the face of the COVID-19 crisis in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. You gave. As we post this, 50 families in Kashmir are receiving food packets for a […]

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“Remember Us In Prayer, For Our Freedom”

You’ll know from reading our updates here that on February 1st, the Myanmar (Burma) military (Tatmadaw) staged a coup and seized power after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratically elected leaders. The military-backed party had been claiming the election would be fraudulent even before it was held on November 8th, 2020. After the […]

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Loving Mother And Baby – Jandi

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” ~ Psalm 139:13-14 For Women’s History Month, we are sharing wisdom from our sisters in Christ on a very common and natural part of their lives and […]

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Loving Mother And Baby – Rina

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” ~ Psalm 139:13-14 For Women’s History Month, we are sharing wisdom from our sisters in Christ on a very common and natural part of their lives and […]

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Loving Mother And Baby – Priya

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” ~ Psalm 139:13-14 For Women’s History Month, we are sharing wisdom from our sisters in Christ on a very common and natural part of their lives and […]

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Praying Over 2021

Next month we will publish our 2020 Annual Report, reflecting on all God has done with your partnership in this extraordinary past year. This month, we look forward to 2021 prayerfully. Below, we share a few prayer requests from pastors and missionaries. These reflect the nature of similar prayer requests throughout our network in South […]

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A Year of Purpose

Friends,  Merry Christmas! The preparatory season of Advent, with its emphasis on waiting and hopeful expectation, seems pointedly relevant this year.  We, including our brothers and sisters in Asia, are wearily waiting for the Covid-19 pandemic to subside. We wait for vaccines to be distributed, ushering in some new form of normalcy in 2021. Our […]

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Thankful for 2020

Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful, despite all the challenges this year has brought.  If you’ve been reading our updates, you know Harvest Bridge’s ministry has been focused on food distributions for those most in need during COVID-19 lockdowns, flood relief, hygiene and sanitation education, caring for children’s educational needs, prayer, remote evangelism and discipleship, and […]

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2020 International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church

November 1st is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. Many of the believers we come alongside in South Asia are heavily persecuted – they face imprisonments, beatings, deprivation of their rights, rejection by their families, and other forms of opposition. As we pray for the persecuted church, each Sunday of November (starting […]

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Citizens of Heaven

Throughout the last four months of the COVID-19 crisis, I have been newly struck by how powerful the church is when we take seriously God’s call to be citizens of heaven (Philippians 3:20).  We work in a world where true persecution is a reality.  This past month one of our pastors brought help and comfort […]