by Nicole Leeper | Apr 23, 2024 | Blog, Child Stories, Christian Living, Church Partnership, Magazine Stories, South Africa, Stories of Hope, Wholistic Care
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...
by Nicole Leeper | Apr 3, 2024 | Blog, Child Stories, Christian Living, Church Partnership, Iraq, Magazine Stories, Stories of Hope, Wholistic Care
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...
by Nicole Leeper | Mar 7, 2024 | Blog, Child Stories, Christian Living, Church Partnership, Kenya, Magazine Stories, Stories of Hope, Wholistic Care
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...
by Nicole Leeper | Feb 23, 2024 | Blog, Christian Living, Church Partnership, India, Magazine Stories, Stories of Hope, Wholistic Care
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...
by Nicole Leeper | Jan 17, 2024 | Blog, Christian Living, Church Partnership, Magazine Stories, Presidential Update, Stories of Hope
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...
by Nicole Leeper | Oct 27, 2023 | Blog, Christian Living, Church Partnership, Guatemala, Magazine Stories, Stories of Hope, Wholistic Care
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...
by Nicole Leeper | Sep 25, 2023 | Blog, Christian Living, Church Partnership, Home Based Care, Magazine Stories, Nicaragua, Stories of Hope
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...
by Nicole Leeper | Aug 22, 2023 | Blog, Christian Living, Church Partnership, Guatemala, Home Based Care, Magazine Stories, Stories of Hope
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...
by Nicole Leeper | Jul 20, 2023 | Blog, Christian Living, Magazine Stories, Mobilization, Trip Stories
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...
by Nicole Leeper | May 30, 2023 | Blog, Christian Living, Ethiopia, Home Based Care, Magazine Stories, Stories of 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...
