Archive for the ‘Trip Stories’ Category
By Joe Brandi, Director of Advocacy I have a restless spirit. My mind wanders to and fro, here and everywhere. I think about Aristotle’s argument for the first cause of things then get a picture of a scene from Nacho Libre. All this happens while I am doing my thousands of emails and texts and [...]
By Jenny Black, Pantego Bible Church team member On our recent trip to Ethiopia, we shared the gospel with many people through our words, but mostly with God’s love and compassion. We saw many come to Christ and many seeds were planted in people’s hearts that will be brought to harvest by God in His [...]
On a recent trip to Haiti, Alan Hunt,vice president for advocacy, met a 4-year-old child named Samuel. After spending time with Samuel and learning his story, Alan’s “trip strategy” to guard his emotions changed. Samuel’s story by Alan Hunt: At one of our Haitian partner churches I learned that Samuel was conceived by the rape [...]
By Billy Ray, Regional Director Iraq Under the radar from most Western news media has been the regular bombardment of Northern Iraq by Turkey and Iran. This has been going on for months now displacing upwards of 500 Kurdish farming families living along the borders with Iran and Turkey. BBC News has done a good [...]
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 [...]
Two California churches, Daybreak Church and Generations Church, recently partnered with a World Orphans project in Haiti. Through the partnership, Pastor Pierre of the indigenous church will be able help 20 orphaned and abandoned children in his community. He will also be able to reach out to families whose lives were devastated by the earthquake. [...]
This summer, World Orphans, along with the Charis Foundation, took 17 Americans on an 11-day trip to Ethiopia and Kenya. During the trip, the group witnessed two dramatically different sides of the orphan crisis in Africa; the problem and the solution. While visiting slums in Kenya, there seemed to be little hope for the millions [...]
After traveling to Africa with World Orphans this summer, Alisha Bowker said she will be changed forever. “There are a number of stories I could share, each that had an impact on our team and myself, but a specific day will easily stay with me for the rest of my life,” she said. During the [...]
As part of World Orphans initiative to care for orphans in Haiti, the OVC, Orphaned and Vulnerable Child, program helps families adequately care for children they have welcomed into their homes. Oftentimes, extended family members or neighbors want to care for an orphaned child, but simply do not have the resources to do so. Through [...]
By Billy Ray, regional director Iraq Sept. 10 Well, Ramadan ended this morning to a nearly two hour chorus of signing and chanting down at the local mosque. Anyone that was anyone was there. Afterwards, the men, dressed in their traditional Kurdish attire, (which most of them wear everyday anyway) began visiting their neighbors and [...]
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