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Stories of hope
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. Romans 15:13
A Glimmer of Hope
By Billy Ray | Project Director in Iraqi-KurdistanThe past month has simply been momentous in our work here in Iraqi-Kurdistan. It all started about four weeks ago when we were meeting with a Kurdish lady and her sister. She had heard about our community center...
More Than Enough
By Darci Irwin | Director of Rescue TeamsThe beat of steel drums and playful children kept me awake during my first night in Haiti a few weeks ago. Yet even if the world had been quiet, the noise in my head would have alerted me as I processed all the first day...
A High School Rescuing Orphans in Haiti
by Rebecca Barlow Ted & Rebecca Barlow are full-time World Orphans missionaries and run our guesthouse in Port Au Prince, Haiti. Rebecca shares her story of hosting a recent team from Wheaton Academy. “They are one of our favorite teams to host, because they are...
A Story of Rescue and Love
It is refreshing to be reminded of how God loves children and really takes care of them, including abandoned children like 10-month-old Chalermpol ‘Ant’ Kamson in Thailand. Once lost, now found. Once sick, now healed. Once abandoned, now he’ll soon be adopted. Ant and...
JOURNEY WITH US
“Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. Defend the cause of orphans. Fight for the rights of widows.” Isaiah 1:17 Are you being called serve the orphan? Could it be through a short-term trip to Iraq or Ethiopia this May? Begin your journey today... You’ll...
What God Has for Me is for Him
By Nicole Leeper | Office ManagerThere is a saying that goes around a portion of the charismatic church in America: "What God has for me, is for me!"It's just one more way that people take the blessings of God, and make it all about themselves. A few years ago, I...
How Can One Week Change Your Life?
By Emily Hilburn | Mobilization Coordinator, Journey 117Tonight I can’t seem to get our Haiti team out of my mind. True, I hadn’t met most of our team in person until we met up in Miami to fly into Haiti (and half of them I didn’t meet until I got to Haiti)....
Team Work
By Phyllis Labranche | Ethiopia Project DirectorDriving along the streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, one can see many amazing things. This image of a group of strangers pushing a bus was one that resonated within me. There are lessons to be learned as I...
One Safe Delivery at a Time
It has been just three months since World Orphans partnered with Global Health Training to equip 65 women from our Haiti OVC program with Safe Birth Delivery Training. The glorious outcome of the church’s ministry to the community resulted in their first safe delivery...
The Refuge: Center of Hope
by Billy Ray, Middle East Regional Director When we arrived in Northern Iraq in the summer of 2008, we came with many questions. After meeting with a local pastor and sharing our hearts to care for orphaned children, he suggested we consider a different city, one we...
Our Twentieth Year
Two decades - that’s how long World Orphans has been helping local churches rescue and care for orphans and vulnerable children. We have seen much growth and change over the years, and yet, the vision of our founders remains today. In 1993, Bob Roosen, Troy & Tina...
In the Days to Come
By Alan Hunt | Vice-President “‘He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”” — Psalm 46:10 This simple command and promise gives me comfort as I start 2013 and my sixth...