AFC × IDES Partnership
Compassion in the crisis.
Christ in the story.
For years, Asians for Christ and IDES have worked together to bring practical relief and the love of Jesus to families facing disaster, displacement, poverty, and war across Southeast Asia and China.
Chapter 01 — Partnership
When disaster comes,
the Church draws near.
AFC's long-standing field relationships and IDES' commitment to disaster relief have given us something rare in missions — a way to move quickly when communities are at their most vulnerable. Through trusted local pastors and ministry partners, aid reaches families inside the hardest places to serve.
The pattern is simple and slow: show up, listen, help, stay. Year after year, that pattern has carried both bread and the Gospel into villages across Southeast Asia and China.
Years of partnership
A timeline of compassion.
A walk through the chapters of the AFC × IDES partnership — disaster by disaster, village by village.
Hot meals served · Mandalay region, Myanmar · 2025 Chapter 02 — Earthquake
2025
Myanmar earthquake response.
When the earthquake struck near Mandalay, homes collapsed and whole neighborhoods were left without water, shelter, or food. AFC's field network mobilized within days, distributing hot meals, supplies and care alongside local believers.
The partnership with IDES made this rapid response possible — and the work continues, week after week, as recovery turns into long-term rebuilding and gospel witness in places forever changed.
Ongoing relief operations in Myanmar
Displaced families · Myanmar–China border · 2024 Chapter 03 — Displacement
2024
Refugee & crisis response.
Conflict along the Myanmar–China border drove families into trenches and forest shelters with little more than what they could carry. AFC partners crossed difficult terrain to bring rice, tarps, blankets and the steady presence of the church.
The same year, typhoons and floods battered Thailand and Vietnam — Bo Wang, Cheng Yang and countless others received help through IDES-funded relief that AFC carried into the rural communities others could not reach.
Cross-border refugee & disaster response
Flood aftermath · Khmu communities, Laos · 2023 Chapter 04 — The Waters
2023
Flood relief in Laos.
Seasonal flooding swept through northern Laos in 2023, destroying rice crops and pushing already fragile Khmu communities to the edge. Whole villages woke to muddy water under their floorboards and roads washed away overnight.
Through AFC's trusted relationships and IDES' emergency funding, food, clean water, and rebuilding support reached families when government aid was slow or absent.
Khmu villages served through local churches
Village outreach · Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar · 2022 Chapter 05 — Expansion
2022
Humanitarian outreach expands.
As borders reopened, the work widened. Clothing distributions, food parcels, and village-level support reached deeper into Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and the remote border communities where outsiders rarely come.
IDES support gave AFC's field teams the runway to serve people who had long been overlooked — small Khmu, Hmong and hill-tribe villages where one bag of rice can carry a family through a hard month.
4 countries reached through local partners
Emergency food relief · Southeast Asia, 2020 Chapter 06 — Pandemic
2020
COVID relief across Southeast Asia.
When lockdowns shuttered villages and cut day-labor families off from their daily wage, AFC and IDES moved quickly together — pooling resources to put rice, oil, and basic provisions into the hands of those with nothing left in the pantry.
Aid went out through trusted local pastors and ministry partners, reaching households without regard to religion or ethnicity. For many, it was the first time the local church had quietly knocked on their door carrying food and prayer.
1,000+ families served during lockdown
Documentary moments
Scenes from the partnership.
Glimpses from the field — relief, presence, and prayer.
Chapter 07 — Continue the mission
The story is still
being written.
Through disaster, displacement, hunger and loss, AFC and IDES continue working together — bringing tangible help and eternal hope to communities across Asia. Your partnership keeps this work on the ground.