Meh. Ho-hum. Blah. With COVID-19 still making the rounds, this summer seems exceptionally under-whelming. With not much to look forward to, each new day feels pretty mundane. Needless to say, I’m not expecting any Top-10 hits about the “Summer of…
“Thank you, that you would come all the way from America, to sit in the dirt with us.” The leader of a network of churches in an East African country once spoke these words to me after we’d traveled by…
Extreme poverty breaks hearts, steals health, and robs people of hope. The communities Bright Hope serves have gotten stuck in the vicious, generational cycle of poverty and crisis. People have often envisioned a poverty-free world. But can we really eliminate…
Prayer Wall “Heaven is full of answers to prayers, just waiting to be prayed.” Archived Requests and Answered Prayers in 2021 JOIN OUR PRAYER TEAM BY TEXT Prayer Request Kenya • December 2021 Would you please let’s pray for our…
Have you thrown away your masks? Did you get vaccinated, or have you chosen not to? Did you start attending church in person yet, or have you continued to worship online? One of the great benefits and blessings of America is that we have choices. We have options. We have freedom. This is not the…
Meet 18–year-old Daniel Emoni, a young man who smiles brightly as he shares his story. He’s the fourth born in a family with five children. Daniel and his younger brother live with their mother, Maria Apem, in the Natoot village in northern Kenya. Maria is one of the beneficiary farmers at the Natoot Farm in Turkana…
(Disclaimer: this post is directed to families who have enough money to meet all or most of their basic needs, and some of their wants too.) I have two elementary-aged kids. As a mom, I want to give my son…
Reprinted with permission by Kevin Dyer.* Haiti is trapped in the very painful cycle of disasters, donations and dependency. Each year there is a disaster – a hurricane, a riot, a flood, a drought or an earthquake. Donations flow into Haiti as long as the disaster is fresh in the minds of people around the world. However,…
Emily and her family share toilets and one water faucet with 19 other families. In a time of COVID-19, where good sanitation and social distancing are critically important, just imagine the challenge of trying to abide by that when likely…
Hunger has been one of the biggest, harshest secondary effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in developing nations like Kenya. “Children don’t even understand; they know there’s COVID, but when they’re hungry—they’re hungry,” said Magdaline Oguto, co-founder and director of Mathare…