Faye Carol Yarbrough of Gardena, California, has been endorsed to serve as an International Ministries missionary in King Williams Town, South Africa, as a teacher of math and science.

Drs. Anita and Rick Gutierrez serve in Durban, South Africa. They train and equip local churches, pastors and missionaries to combat life-style related diseases like HIV/AIDS, heart and artery disease, diabetes and malaria.

This White Cross project will equip 40 Health Builders to perform primary health services in impoverished communities in South Africa.

When our mentor Daniel Fountain served in the Congo in 1995 there was an Ebola Virus Disease outbreak starting in Kikwit which eventually killed 240 out of 300 people infected once the virus spread from village people to the hospital setting.

Once common only in wealthy nations, obesity now is on an alarming rise in underdeveloped countries as well. Globally, obesity rates have doubled since 1980.

While the spread of this highly-contagious disease has now been largely contained, one big question remains: What steps can be taken now to prevent more outbreaks?