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September 19, 2011

By Matt Mehaffey, Regional Director of Advocacy, Southeast Matt was in Haiti in July and wrote this report of his time there. Friday – After a couple cups of coffee at the guesthouse we set off for a Haitian church that is partnering with World Orphans called New Jerusalem. School was in session when we [...]

Last week, World Orphans holistic care team travelled to Kenya where pastors from projects in Uganda and Nairobi gathered to learn more about emotional care for children. The holistic-care team, which focuses on helping caretakers meet the emotional, physical, spiritual and mental needs of children, spent the last few months developing emotional care materials under [...]

By Randy Phillips, Regional Director Grand Rapids The Church… isn’t she beautiful! Earlier this year I visited one of our church partners in Juja, Kenya with a team from Northpoint Church in Austin. As our team arrived we soon found ourselves drenched in the beauty and fragrance of the Church loving, caring and empowering their [...]

By Lori Resmer, Team Coordinator of Journey 117 America is one of the richest countries in the world….and one of the most obese. Seems as though excess isn’t necessarily a good thing. But not only is our country consumed with material goods, food, wealth and assets, we are wrapped up in our love of SELF. [...]

By Rick Elstein, Developer of HisKids Sports Through HisKids Sports, World Orphans indigenous partners have an opportunity to reach out to kids with a true sports discipleship program. However, without what we call “grace-filled coaching” HisKids Sports can become a series of games and skill development methods, instead of a method for Christ-centered teaching. The [...]

By Mike Krick, Regional Director, Midwest I have had the opportunity to work with a friend of mine who is in full time student ministry at Blythfield Hills Baptist Church in Rockford, Mich. I shared with him the countless ways to get involved with World Orphans. It was amazing to watch God work out the [...]

By Jeremy Handysides, State Director for Southern California I’m excited to say that God has opened some really cool doors recently. I stopped by a surf shop to talk to the owner who I’ve had the honor of knowing and showed him a flyer about World Orphans. He immediately got excited and said he had [...]

A World Orphans team is currently in Ethiopia visiting our partner churches and children’s homes there. For updates and trip reflections, stay tuned to the WO blog. By Mark Gumm, Regional Director Yesterday I had the joy of attending the International Evangelical Church in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.  It was incredible to look around the room [...]

Mark and Julie Gumm adopted two children from Ethiopia in December of 2008. That journey led them to more than just adoption and brought a realization of the scope of the orphan crisis in Ethiopia and around the world. They returned home and shortly thereafter Mark joined the staff of World Orphans as a Director [...]

Joe Brandi, regional director for the west coast, prepares for his upcoming trip to Haiti. The trip will bring hope to orphaned children and will also help connect a church in the U.S. with a Haitian church that needs help supporting their orphan ministry.

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