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Authored by Mike Krick, Senior Director of Advocacy I have been studying the book of Habakkuk lately and have found myself going through some similar patterns as this prophet. God, how long before you listen? Do I have to yell before you come to the rescue? Why am I forced to look at evil and [...]
Authored 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 in the stalls, Yet I [...]
Authored by David Van Winkle, Director of Advocacy In January I was able to lead a team of 45 students and teachers from Wheaton Academy (a local high school from West Chicago) to meet and serve their church partner in Haiti. Let me be clear, I have always had fantastic experiences on partnership trips, but [...]
Authored by Jacques Sadie, Nicaragua Country Director In February, my wife and I led a team from two churches in Missouri to visit their church partner, Verbo Bluefields, in the town of Bluefields on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast. This partnership started taking shape when Pastor Ed from Verbo Bluefields met Pastors Jim and Bob from Missouri [...]
Originally written December 2007 Phary is a fourteen year-old girl in Cambodia. Her name means ‘beautiful flower’ and she certainly inherited her mother’s striking looks. However, her mother was sadly lost many years ago to a drug overdose. And her father was killed just last week in a street fight with a rival gang leader. [...]
Originally written December, 2007 Abejeeth is 5 years old. One year before the 2004 Tsunami hit his village, his mother was cooking the family meal over an open fire. An errant flame licked her highly-combustible Sari dress and she was soon engulfed. The shock and burns were too severe and she was quickly lost. Even [...]
Ethiopia is a beautiful land of beautiful people. It is also a land of orphans. It is not uncommon to find families consisting only of children. This is one such family – five siblings all orphaned by HIV/AIDS. The four girls and one boy had seen their parents taken by the disease a couple of [...]
WARNING: This story retells violent incidents which some readers may find disturbing. Reader discretion advised. By the time he was sixteen, he was already raping, maiming and killing as a child soldier in the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel terror group in northern Uganda headed by the maniacal Joseph Kony. We’ll call him Jeffrey. To [...]
A man in his sixties, accompanied by another who looked as if he could be his adult son, emerged from a narrow alley hand-in-hand with two young prostitutes in their early teens. The alley separated a seedy brothel from its next-door neighbor, a beauty salon. The beauty salon is run by a teenage girl, Mai [...]
Ted & Rebecca Barlow recently moved their family to Haiti to serve as Guesthouse Managers for the World Orphans Guesthouse in Port au Prince. The guest house serves not only our short-term teams but people from many other organizations. Below is an excerpt from Rebecca’s journal on their Orphan Sunday activities in Haiti. Well into [...]
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