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As the lay leader of a church in a rural village, Mapenzi Yason prayed for the needs of the congregation each Sunday. Finding a job was always a common refrain in the poverty-stricken area.

In his own prayers, Yason had one request he repeated nearly every day. He asked God to give him honey.

Yason had tried to start a beekeeping business to support his wife and four children. But he lacked the technical training to keep the hive going. Everything quickly fell apart.

Then Samaritan’s Purse came to Yason’s village to train community members in caring for livestock and how to start a beekeeping business.

Yason couldn’t believe it. His prayer had been answered! After completing the training sessions, he received the necessary equipment: a smoker, protective suit, a pair of gumboots, and his first hives.

The bees soon began producing. In only a year, Yason harvested more than 300 pounds of high-quality honey, which he sold through a local cooperative.

“This has greatly contributed to my family’s income,” he said. “I have managed to pay school fees for my two children.”

Through simple beekeeping and honey-harvesting programs in remote villages in Uganda, Sudan, Kenya, El Salvador, and Honduras, Samaritan’s Purse is helping families tackle poverty and find new hope.

Jose Santos Hernandez, a 25-year-old community leader in Piedra Negras, Honduras, said that as physical needs are met, hearts and minds have been opened to the Gospel message.

“We never thought that our need for work and dreams of creating a productive business from bee honey would allow us to find hope in God,” Hernandez said. “Thanks to God and to Samaritan’s Purse because through this project, we were able to know the Gospel of salvation.”

“How sweet are your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” (Psalm 119:103, NIV)