Around A Mother’s Dinner Table: Hope for Kenya
Kenya – Increasing COVID cases. Food insecurity. Rising unemployment rates. With so many odds against you, it can be easy to feel hopeless and simply want to give up. Struggles like…
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Who Watches Your Back?
Africa is an amazing and diverse land, filled with wild animals and challenging situations. As with any dangerous locale, it’s important to know who to trust and who to go…
What Makes Your Blood Boil?
The Tale of My Missing Mail Over the past few months, I started noticing a trend with my mail delivery: an alarming number of greeting cards had disappeared. When the…
Finding Hope in God’s Story
*Guest blog post reprinted with permission from the The Chalmers Center At this point, 2020 has become a cliché—a year of collective trauma and upheaval likely to be remembered by…
Lend Your Support
Undergirding the U.S. office Working in the operations department for Bright Hope, I spend a lot of time behind the scenes or under the scenes. “Undergirding the U.S. office” is a term that my team uses…
Why you should feed your marriage with generosity
*Guest blog post reprinted with permission from the National Christian Foundation. Do generous people have happier marriages? Or are happily married people more generous? Does it matter which comes first?…
10 Worthwhile Movies Based in Africa
I’m always on the lookout for a good movie. If it’s based on a true story, that’s even better. Agree? I’ve got a list of 10 movie recommendations to share with…
The Night My Neighbour Died
About 7:30 p.m., there was a loud banging on our front door. Eloise went to see who it was and found Dottie standing at the door sobbing uncontrollably. “Ken’s gone!”…
God’s Compassion: A Fresh Insight
I don’t think I have ever heard a sermon on Exodus 34:5-7. I am sure many sermons have been preached on it, but not any that I have heard, or remember. Here’s what it…
20 Inspiring Bible Verses about Helping the Poor
I didn’t count, but I read that there are over 2,000 references to the poor in the Bible. That speaks volumes—literally. How close it must be to God’s heart if…