Meet Love Never Fails

Love Never Fails decreases the spread of HIV/AIDS and frees women from a life of prostitution. Working in the slums of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Love Never Fails cares for the daily physical needs of men and women living with AIDS, encourages HIV testing, provides AIDS awareness programs, and leads training to destigmatize the disease.

In addition, the ministry offers both income-generating activities for former prostitutes and educational support for children so that vulnerable women and children have job skills to become self-sufficient. Over the years, several of these women have professed Christ, participated in Bible studies with the staff, integrated into a local church, and started their own businesses.

Because prostitution carries such a societal stigma, churches struggle to welcome these women into their communities. Love Never Fails also provides pastoral training to educate and equip local pastors to help their churches embrace women leaving prostitution and integrate them into the church body.

Love Never Fails offers practical care as they work to build gospel relationships in their community: distributing copies of the Bible in Amharic or Oromia so the women can read the Word in their own language; providing health and medical resources like medicines, bandages, antiseptic cream, hygiene products, soap, and toothbrushes for medical staff to use as they minister door-to-door to men and women who have HIV/AIDS; and ministering to the women’s children through educational support and playtime.

Ethiopia borders Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan, and South Sudan. Although it is the largest and most populated country in the Horn of Africa, it remains one of the poorest in the world. For the past several years, Ethiopia has endured a devastating civil conflict between warring ethnic groups in the Tigray Region. Though the fighting has somewhat abated, the area is still experiencing a humanitarian crisis, with over 20 million people affected by the conflict.