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Raising Kids With A Heart For Missions

Post by Kevin Squires, Senior Advocacy Director SPOILER 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...

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Giving Thanks

Posted by Jeremy Resmer, Sr. Projects Director. It’s that time of the year again. Time for putting up decorations and lights, overindulging in food, giving gifts, year-end bonuses, secret Santas, ugly...

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Identity Crisis

Post by Jesse Blaine, Project Director – Cambodia. Whether it’s a mixed up genius from south Boston, a green ogre with a Scottish accent (that’ll do donkey, that’ll do), or a girl who wants to become a...

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Preparing to Celebrate the Light of the World

Post by Kate Borders, Sr. Project Director. “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.” – Isaiah 7:14 ‘All this took...

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Stop Playing in the Mud

Post by Nate Livesay, Director of Advocacy Almost exactly one year ago, I started a journey that would change the course of my life. I traveled to Ethiopia on a Journey 117 trip, and God revealed a...

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New Years Resolutions

Posted by Kathy Davis, Director of Holistic Care. The Christmas tree is down, extended family has returned home, the house is quiet, and the New Year has officially begun.  For me, a new year is...

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In the Days to Come

By Alan Hunt, Vice-President ‘He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”’ Psalm 46:10 This simple command and promise gives me...

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Team Work

Post by Phyllis Labranche, Ethiopia Project Director Driving along the streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, one can see many amazing things.  This image of a group of strangers pushing a bus was one that...

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How Can One Week Change Your Life?

Post by Emily Hilburn, Mobilization Coordinator, Journey 117 Tonight I can’t seem to get our Haiti team out of my mind. True, I hadn’t met most of our team in person until we met up in Miami to fly...

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What God Has for Me is for Him

Posted by Nicole Leeper, Office Manager There is a saying that goes around a portion of the charismatic church in America: “What God has for me, is for me!” It’s just one more way that people take the...

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More Than Enough

Post by Darci Irwin, Director of Orphan Advocacy Teams The beat of steel drums and playful children kept me awake during my first night in Haiti a few weeks ago.  Yet even if the world had been quiet,...

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A Glimmer of Hope

Posted by Billy Ray, Project Director in Iraqi-Kurdistan. The past month has simply been momentous in our work here in Iraqi-Kurdistan. It all started about four weeks ago when we were meeting with a...

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Are We Too Busy?

Too busy. Those are words we’ve all echoed at least once before in our life. Whether it’s too busy to workout or too busy to cook supper, I find myself feeling “too busy” quite often. My husband,...

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Strategies To Preserve Families

By Jeremy Resmer, Sr. Director-Projects James 1:27 reveals God’s heart and desire for his people to look after orphans and widows. Throughout scripture, the church is called to respond with compassion...

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Collaboration in Orphan Care

By Kate Borders, Senior Director Mobilization Recently 11 World Orphans staff attended the Christian Alliance for Orphans, Summit IX.It was exciting to hear about what God is doing through His people...

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Here AND There

By Nate Livesay, Director of Advocacy Last May I made the decision to begin raising support to join the staff at World Orphans. It has been amazing to see all the ways that God has been teaching me...

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An Entrance into Suffering

by Kathy Davis – Director of Wholistic Care Cancer, disease, school and movie theatre shootings, marathon finish line bombings, war torn nations, earthquakes, tornadoes, sex trafficking, and orphaned...

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Power To Act

By Matthew Hanks – Director of Advocacy Have you ever had a strong yearning to help in a situation but have not known how?  I live in Colorado Springs, and a several weeks back, some 500...

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Breathe

By Darci Irwin – Director of Rescue Teams A few years ago I learned something that revolutionized my understanding of breathing.  Did you know the body is designed to breathe 6-8 breaths per minute but...

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Why Not Family?

by Jesse Blaine – Cambodia World Orphans is excited to share with you the release of a new video ‘Why Not a Family?’ presented by Uniting For Children. Uniting For Children is a movement whose purpose...

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