by Nicole Leeper | Feb 4, 2013 | Haiti, Journey Trips
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)....
by Nicole Leeper | Dec 21, 2012 | Christian Living, Journey Trips
By Nate Livesay | Director of AdvocacyAlmost exactly one year ago, I started a journey that would change the course of my life. I traveled to Ethiopia on a Journey 117 trip, and God revealed a life-altering truth to me: I need to stop wasting my life making mud...
by Nicole Leeper | May 8, 2012 | Haiti, Journey Trips
By Emily Hilburn | J117 Coordinator”Though the fig tree should not blossom And there be no fruit on the vines, Though the yield of the olive should fail And the fields produce no food, Though the flock should be cut off from the fold And there be no cattle...
by Nicole Leeper | Feb 24, 2012 | Iraq, Journey Trips
“Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.” Isaiah 1:17 This verse, penned in Hebrew Scripture as early as 740 BC, speaks to God’s heart for the orphan and commands us as believers to...
by Nicole Leeper | Jan 27, 2012 | Journey Trips
Eddie is a small boy in a government orphanage in Uganda. Eddie isn’t his real name. I haven’t changed his name for protection reasons, I’ve given him a name because no one knew his name. Eddie walked up to me the moment I walked through the gates...
by Trey Dunham | Sep 30, 2011 | Christian Living, Journey Trips
By Kevin Squires | State Director of Advocacy – West VirginiaArguably over the last 20 years, the opportunities for short-term missions have continued to spike in popularity. Only recently have we stopped to examine the effects of it all. Ministry experts...
