Let me paint a picture for you. 54 kids living at an orphanage. The holidays are just around the corner. While most people are preparing for time with family, going to church, opening gifts—it’s hard to think of these kids not having a family during the holiday...
It was just so easy on my missions trip. We could just walk in and out of an orphanage. No time-consuming police checks or ID clearances like the kids camps at home. It was easy to go in and out, no strings attached. And that was the problem. Short-term missions trips...
Before the age of seven, John’s* mother farmed her children out to family and neighbors in the nation of Lesotho. The neighbor woman who took John in exploited him. Rather than sending him to school, she made John tend to her sheep and cattle. We are not exactly...
My name is Mehari. I live in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. When I was 5, I got sick and needed surgeries—and my family wasn’t able to afford it. My parents chose to send me to an orphanage where I would have access to medication to keep me alive....
Foster care is temporary. It’s literally written into the job description. Here today and gone tomorrow. Strangers, then family, then nearly strangers again.We give our hearts and souls and sleep and time. And then they leave. And we’re left with all those hours and...
All I wanted to do was sleep. They say teaching gets easier, but in early childhood education—you want to nap as hard as the kids do. Daily. Instead, I had an extra staff meeting on child protection policies. The intense, gritty part of childcare. As I waited for our...
I was with a group of international school teachers on a holiday hike in the middle of the Himalayan Mountain Range in 2014. We weren’t skilled hikers but the heights propelled us to see those magnificent peaks from a vantage point like no other. At the highest...
How does a company that makes an almond-based sauce find itself participating in the mission of global orphan care? For individuals with a heart to help, ways to donate & participate are often readily available. But if you want to mobilize the collective ability...
‘Orphans should be reunited whenever possible and adopted whenever necessary’. So how do we grow this work and what role can businesses play towards these ends? Studies have shown that 80% of children in orphanages have families. 1MILLIONHOME shares the urgency for...
“Does this church even need me to come talk about orphans?” That was the thought going through my head on Orphan Sunday five years ago. As a missionary in Tanzania, I was privileged to work with a network of pastors and church leaders that were always eager to welcome...
