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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
Ethiopian Siblings Orphaned by HIV/AIDS
Ethiopia is a beautiful land of beautiful people. It is also a land of orphans. It is not uncommon to find families consisting only of children. This is one such family - five siblings all orphaned by HIV/AIDS. The four girls and one boy had seen their parents taken...
Ethiopia Church Program Brings Families to Christ
By Mark GummWhat an encouraging story of how God is using the church in Ethiopia to meet both physical & spiritual needs of people in their community through the Home-Based Care program. While in Addis Ababa last month, I spent the afternoon with our World...
Partner Churches Use Orphan Sunday to Raise Awareness
November 6th was Orphan Sunday, a day when hundreds of churches around the world gathered to pray and advocate for the orphan. To give a voice to those who so often, are not heard. We loved seeing what some of our World Orphans partner churches did. First Baptist...
Caring for children
By Kate Borders | Director of Mobilization & Holistic CareI nurse my four month old daughter and she gets into a comfortable state somewhere between awake and asleep while she contentedly eats. After awhile I pick her up to burp her. With her head on my...
Rebuilding With Faith
By Jesse BlaineIn a country still recovering from the earthquake, our staff and U.S. church partners are constantly amazed by the faith and resilience of our Haitian church partners.For some time, one of our Haitian church partners has been worshipping in a makeshift...
Orphan Sunday
Orphan Sunday is just two weeks away. The Orphan Sunday website has a list of all the Orphan Sunday events being held if your local church is not participating. Or you can gather with your family, Bible study, a student group that evening for LIVE EVENT from Kansas...
‘The Jesus Storybook Bible’ For Orphans In Haiti
Updated 10/28: We've reached our funding goal. Thank you! We have a unique way a church or individual can partner with World Orphans work in Haiti. Many people don't know that French - not Creole - is the primary written language taught in most schools in Haiti -...
Creating a culture in the church
Creating an Adoption Culture in Your Church - OS from Christian Alliance for Orphans on Vimeo.
Living Hope in Haiti
Darla, Christella, and their mom were trapped in the rubble of the January 2011 earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, unable to get out for some time. Their father/husband died in the earthquake and the family who had little before the earthquake now was left with...
Child Development Center Provides Safe Place for Nicaraguan Kids
By Amanda SadieMy husband Jacques and I have spent the last six months living in Nicaragua, working for World Orphans. We have learned a lot, witnessed much, prayed hard, listened often and asked a lot of questions.About half of Nicaragua’s population lives in poverty...
Slowly but Surely
Progress continues on The Refuge, the community center being built in Northern Iraq. Here are a couple pics of our small conference room/woman's center taking shape. Putting in electrical sockets and lights. Funds, however, will only allow us to finish this room at...
Bethel Gospel Farm Helps Community
By Scott Vair | Vice President of ProjectsI recently traveled to India to visit one of our church partners who has a great vision for church planting and orphan care. They are also committed to finding ways to help their ministries become self-sustainable through...