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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
Acting Your Age
A few days ago I posted on Facebook that, “After three hours of mountain biking this morning my legs and back are toast”. One of my good friends commented that I should, “Act my age and grow soft and lazy like the rest of us”. The comment was a humorous compliment...
Acting Your Age
A few days ago I posted on Facebook that, “After three hours of mountain biking this morning my legs and back are toast”. One of my good friends commented that I should, “Act my age and grow soft and lazy like the rest of us”. The comment was a humorous compliment...
Only the church can heal a broken little boy
You can see the sadness in his eyes. It bears down deep into his soul.During our time at one of our church-based children’s homes in the Ivano-Frankivsk oblast (province) of Ukraine, Roman had his head downcast and didn’t interact with the other children around him....
Everything changes in an instant
By Paul Myhill (July 2007)Dressed in a small pink shirt, he had his head buried into the arm that was holding his weight against the corner of a bleak concrete wall. No older than three years old, he was sobbing incessantly, his chest heaving in utter anguish. He...
Church prepares, comforts Jonathon in parent’s death
Originally written in April 2008Jonathon’s parents, David and Sarah, are dying of AIDS in the Kibera slum of Nairobi. A local church has been visiting them for months, providing antiretroviral drugs (ARV’s), other medications and meals, as well as school fees and...
His mother murdered, young boy taken in by church
By Kathy Davis | Holistic Care LeadMeet Milkessa from Ethiopia.Milkessa was rescued about a year ago. His biological father got drunk, came home and killed his mother with a knife. He then fled the area and no one knows where he is.Milkessa was...
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...