Starting School & the Gift of Education

Gathering supplies and adjusting to new schedules can make a new school year rather daunting. But as you’re preparing for classes to start, take a moment and think about how incredibly blessed your family is to have the chance for your children to receive a quality education!

 

Consider this from Haiti, a country not so far away from here… Hundreds of thousands of children have no access to school, or have seemingly innumerable obstacles in their way, such as: What would you do if you didn’t have any money to go to school? What if there was no school near you, and you had to walk miles each day without any food in your belly? What if, when you got to the one-room school house, you found that there were no books, and you sat on a bench all day in the heat to memorize from a chalkboard?

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The Gospel, the Browns & the Vulnerable

Isn’t it fun to look forward to an evening out with your family? What if you could change a life at same time?

 

At the 2015 Gospel Sing on Saturday, August 22, 2015, you can do just that. Join us at the Wilkening Farmstead (Cissna Park, IL) for an evening of down-home, southern gospel music. You’ll hear inspiring stories of hope, enjoy amazing food, and listen to encouraging music for the heart – all while having a great time with your friends and family. But the best part is, all freewill offerings collected that evening will benefit the lives of vulnerable children.

 

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“When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a…”

What did you want to be when you grew up?

 

Did you watch your dad in the shop, or discover a love of teaching from your 4th grade teacher? Did you job shadow someone or plan ahead to see what career you wanted to pursue in college?

 

Imagine what it would look like if the majority of the people you knew didn’t have a formal job. Imagine what you would dream about becoming when you only knew of three main professions in your community. What would you say then?

 

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The Stories Behind the Pictures

With a curious smirk, sporting a vest and tie, you smile and think, “What a cute boy.”  What isn’t captured is how powerful this moment really is. You see, Obie*, the little guy pictured, had just joined his new Home of Hope family when this photo was taken. It was his first day in a new home. His first day eating three full meals. His first night sleeping in a bed all his own.  It was the first of so many new things he never had before.

 

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Those Who Are Still Looking for Freedom

This weekend, we will celebrate our country’s independence and freedom. We will gather with friends and family and thank God for the freedoms we have been blessed with in this land – mostly things we have never lived without.

 

But we don’t begin to understand the magnitude of what we celebrate if we don’t know the power of what freedom really is. Today, there are people around the world who have never known this kind of freedom. They are men, women and children who do not know what it means to dream of a better future. They do not know what it is to celebrate freedom, either individually or as a nation. They are the world’s most vulnerable.

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Chickens, Children & Change

What do chickens have to do with caring for vulnerable children? 

This can be best explained as you take a tour of our Vocational Ranch in Fondfrede, Haiti with Ernso. He’ll show you the flock we’re continuing to grow, explain the process of raising chicks through the molting process and finally landing them in the main laying house. He would show you how they collect and clean the eggs and send them off to markets in the local areas. But what he’d really explain is why.

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It will be our love…

“It will be our love, not our opinions, which will be our great contribution to the world.” – Bob Goff

 

For all of the programs and educational opportunities we create for the vulnerable children we serve, there is no greater piece to our ministry than love.

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Where do you start? Encouragement and Resources for the Adoption Journey

Recently at CAFO2015 we had the privilege of talking to many people who are pursuing a growing passion for the vulnerable – particularly those interested in adoption. It’s an exciting journey to be a part of. But we also recognize that it’s a hard one.

 

If you weren’t there but suddenly wish you would have been to ask some of those questions, you haven’t missed your opportunity. Check out some resources and downloads from our breakout sessions below:

 

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Empowering Mothers and their Children this Mother’s Day

This Mother’s Day, will you join us to empower mothers to care for their children with dignity in Ethiopia?

 

Mothers like Betti have raised their children to the best of their ability in a land where extreme poverty has left them with few options. Her children, facing dark realities about how their mother provides for them, grow up as outcasts in their society, unrecognized and forfeiting any hope of a future.

 

But this Mother’s Day, we empower mothers like Betti so she can provide for her children with dignity. As we celebrate our own mothers, wouldn’t it be exciting if we could celebrate motherhood for her too? 

 

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