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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
Global Village: Filling the Gap
“I never loved you and everything is your fault. Don’t expect anyone to love you if your own mother can’t.”
Those were the last words out of his mother’s mouth before David was launched into the foster care system. It was a couple days after his 10th birthday and, to say the least, he’d had a difficult first decade.
10 Tips to Prepare for Your Short-Term Mission Trip
Go to Ethiopia Go to Guatemala Go to Uganda By Bailey Kalvelage | Director of MobilizationDo you have plans to travel on a short-term mission trip? If yes, this post is for you!I write with a heart full of anticipation for the trips World Orphans will send this year....
Out with the Old, In with the New
By Kevin Squires, Senior Director of Church Partnerships There’s just something about Christmas. Celebrating the birth of Christ, while huddling together with family around a perfectly-lit tree… stockings full of goodies hanging from the mantle… everyone stuffing...
Preservation to Empowerment
By Jeremy Resmer | Senior Director of Projects If you pay close attention, you’ll see poverty everywhere you look. If you don’t, it could be that you’re only viewing poverty through an economic lens. While material poverty is only part of the story, it seems to be the...
Are You Exhausted in Orphan Care?
By Matthew Hanks | Project ManagerAfrica The first time I participated in the Christian Alliance for Orphans Summit (CAFO), the number of amazing groups fighting on behalf of the orphan astounded me. There were more groups present at this adoption/foster care/orphan...
Perfect Pumpkin: Raising Kids with a Heart for Missions
By Kevin Squires | Senior Director of C2C PartnershipsSPOILER ALERT: It is hard to be a parent. Perhaps even more so… it is hard to be a parent raising kids in a Christian home that happens to be smack dab in the middle of a not-so Christian culture. So, what do we...
Salting Our World
Written by Bailey Kalvelage • Director of Mobilization“You are the salt of the earth…. You are the light of the world…” These familiar words found in Matthew 5:13-16 had my ears perked as I listened in church last Sunday. I’ve heard this passage so many times,...
Iraq, ISIS, and The Refuge
Written by Scott Vair, President/CEO of World OrphansISIS Was ComingRosum is the leader of a group of twenty Shabak families from a small village outside of Mosul, Iraq. Shabaks are Kurds that have Iranian roots, speak Arabic, and are some of the persecuted minorities...
Finding Heroes
Written by Kevin Squires | Senior Director of Church Partnerships for World OrphansEvery night around 10 o’clock the sky lights up around my house as explosions go off left and right. But before you jump to any… ahem… rational conclusions, you should...
He Became and I Become
By Kathy Davis | Director of Wholistic CareThe question is often asked of children, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I remember my well-meaning grandfather asking me this question, hoping I would dream big, work hard, and achieve everything I ever desired. I...
Finding Hope in Lessons Learned
By Jeremy Resmer | Sr. Director of Projects Global orphan care is complex. We have the tendency to oversimplify problems. Sometimes, in our desire to think globally, we develop elaborate strategies to care for orphaned children and assume our plans will work in every...
Guest Blog: Journey to the Father’s Heart
As this blog is being posted, we have a World Orphans Journey team in India serving alongside our church partners in Hyderabad. The purpose of Journey trips is to encourage, educate, and empower team members to be lifelong orphan advocates. We always feel honored...