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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
Their Children Now Dream
by: Scott Vair | President/CEO Our Home Based Care program is designed to invest in the lives of vulnerable parents and their children, in part through economic training and opportunities that honor their dignity, improve quality of life, and help strengthen and...
Weaving Hopeful Futures in Guatemala
by: Chris and Lauren Turpaud | Church Partnership Directors (originally published in 2014) The community of La Verbena in Guatemala City is an infamous haven of darkness and danger, characterized by frequent acts of violence, high rates of drug and alcohol abuse...
A Church Alive
by: Mike Krick | Sr. Director of Strategic Partnerships (originally published in 2014) World Orphans partners with two churches in South Africa. It has been a joy to watch these churches provide wholistic care for the children they serve. They are truly bringing hope...
The Refuge
by: Scott Vair | President/CEO (originally published in 2013) When World Orphans work began in Iraq in 2008, we envisioned residential care for orphaned and abandoned children through the indigenous church. It quickly became clear that this was not the best solution...
My Friend Muli
by: Kathy Davis | Senior Director of Mobilization (originally published in 2013) Nicolas Muli Mulu was born in 2001 in Kitui County of Nairobi, Kenya. He was fatherless and his mother was mentally ill, unable to care for him. He lived with his 70-year-old grandmother...
Pranitha
by: Emily Hilburn (originally published in 2013) Hyderabad is a large city in India made up of 6.8 million people. You can imagine how easy it would be to get lost in the crowd. But in the midst of blaring horns and yelling drivers, a young girl’s story leaps from the...
Bringing About the Kingdom
by: Scott Vair | President/CEO In 1993, a group of friends got together to help a church in Nicaragua buy a house to care for some street boys. With that, World Orphans was born. This year, we are celebrating 30 years of empowering the church to care for orphans and...
The Gospel in Ordinary Places
by: Randy Phillips | Sr. Director of Church Partnerships A noisy restaurant, a meal, laughter. This seemed an ordinary moment, yet it was drenched with the extraordinary. A meek and humble couple from the “red zone”—a poor area with exceptionally high crime rate in...
Opportunities for Dignity
by: Lindsay Allen | International Church Partnership Director Think back to your very first job. Maybe it was mowing lawns over summer break, babysitting the neighbor kids, or working in food service. For me, it was a summer job at a movie theater. To this day, I...
Chosen Family
by: José Pineda | Director of Church Mobilization One thing I ask my Lord is that I may witness and hopefully partake in his perfect plan of redemption. Through the years, he has taken me from one place to another; and I’ve seen the light of the gospel penetrate the...
The Kingdom Impact of Short-Term Trips
by: Kate Borders | Sr. Director of Mobilization Is it wise to go on a short-term trip? Would the money be better invested elsewhere? Are outside visitors harmful? Short-term trips sent cross-culturally from the United States have been and remain a hot topic of...
Hopelessness is the Doorway to Hope
by: Kevin Squires | Sr. Director of International Programs It wasn’t long ago that I found myself sitting in a circle in a dry, rocky courtyard outside of a church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, listening to widows share stories of how World Orphans microloans were...