by Nicole Leeper | Aug 12, 2020 | Active Partnerships, Ethiopia
CHURCH PARTNERSHIP Wolisso Berhane Wongel Baptist Church Through the Home Based Care program, this church will help meet the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of 20 families caring for orphaned and vulnerable children. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Wolisso...
by Nicole Leeper | Jul 6, 2020 | Available Partnerships, Available Partnerships in Ethiopia, Ethiopia
CHURCH PARTNERSHIP Beke Berhane Wongel Baptist Church Through the Home Based Care program, this church will help meet the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of 20 families caring for orphaned and vulnerable children. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia BEKE BERHANE...
by Nicole Leeper | Jul 13, 2016 | Adoption, Christian Living, Orphan Care, Wholistic Care
“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...
by Trey Dunham | Jan 7, 2015 | Church Partnership, Journey Trips, Mobilization
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....
by Trey Dunham | Dec 22, 2014 | Christian Living
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...
by Trey Dunham | Dec 12, 2014 | Guatemala, Haiti, Projects, Sustainability
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...
by Trey Dunham | Nov 7, 2014 | Christian Living, 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...
by Trey Dunham | Oct 31, 2014 | Christian Living
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...
by Nicole Leeper | Oct 17, 2014 | Church Partnership, India
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,...
by Nicole Leeper | Oct 6, 2014 | Iraq, Presidential Update, Projects
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...