Focus on Easter
In the midst of Lent it is important to focus yourself on Jesus. Jesus is the reason we celebrate Easter, the truth that changes our lives and the light that rescues us from darkness. Easter isn’t just a springtime celebration,…
Category Bright Hope Blog & Stories
The Prodigal Father
Making a decision to start living with his 18-year-old girlfriend, along with having a distorted image of marriage, was the beginning of Lawrence’s trials. The young man grew up in a polygamous family with an alcoholic, abusive father, who usually…
A Focus on Livestock Leads to Success with Vegetables
The Christian Farmer’s Association (CFA) works through local churches in Zambia to provide agriculturally-based, economic-development programs, loans, and training to help subsistence farmers increase their incomes and grow their farming businesses. The CFA has been successful in transforming struggling farmers…
God is Love: 5 Attributes That Show Us This Truth
*Guest blog post reprinted from Compassion International Learning about God’s attributes provides comfort in hard times and compels us to love and serve those in need. More than anything, the Bible makes it clear that “God is love” (1 John 4:8). He isn’t…
What’s it like to live on less than $2 a day?
Listen to the stories of some of the 700 million people living in extreme poverty. *Guest blog post reprinted from GatesNotes It’s the lack of shoes that I remember most. It was 1993. Melinda and I were traveling through Kenya, Tanzania,…
From Needs to Assets
*Guest blog post reprinted with permission from the The Chalmers Center Whenever someone who has never lived in material poverty (like me!) seeks to obey God’s call to “spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed” (Isa.…
What Am I? (January 2021)
You saw the above picture in your email or in a social media post, and we asked if you knew what it was. What you were seeing was a part of this photo: It’s homemade soap from Zambia! In the local villages, the…
Best of the Blog 2020: Your Favorite Stories of the Year
As you might expect during an incredibly challenging year, your favorite stories on the Bright Hope blog were those that inspired and uplifted. The most popular blog posts we shared during 2020 were those that showed the resiliency of the…
Why I’d Score a Zero
Working at Bright Hope, I hear a lot of stories about poverty. Truthfully and tragically, my cushy life in middle-class suburbia prevents me from really being able to relate to those living in extreme need. I’ve never been so hungry…
Gramma Ida
Do you want to go to Uganda? I had just started my third month at Bright Hope as Operations Manager when I was asked that question. And there was no question in my mind that I wanted to go. The trip…