“Resurrection Rescue”: Reflections on Easter in Malawi
Roberta Nagel, volunteer Church Partnership Coordinator for Malawi, shares her reflections on Easter and the work of the Church in Malawi. We are just a few short days from Easter. As I remember and reflect upon relationships formed half a world away from my birthplace, I am captured by the intimate analogies between what I…
Read MoreWorld Water Day: Walking for Water in Rwanda
Nsabimana Aloys, Water Project Manager withEmily Haas, Church Partnership Coordinator share how Rwanda’s Water Team celebrated World Water Day this year. Thanks to 20Liters, Mars Hill and our other partners who help make all this possible. World Relief hosted their annual Walk for Water in Masaka Sector, Rwanda. Around 10 am, the gathering of 200…
Read More“This should not happen to people”
In honor of International Women’s Day, our Country Director of Indonesia, Jo Ann de Belen reflects on those close to her heart and why she wants to be part of changing the world. I once knew a leper. He was close to me. Apart from his leprosy, he was just like any one of us.…
Read More#Justice2013: Sound Bites of the Justice Conference
by Larissa Peters, your Official World Relief Tweeter…(thanks to Paul Kim and Allison Harp for these excellent pics) If you’re like me, perhaps you felt that the Justice Conference was similar to those meals where you scarfed down as much good food as quickly as possible without truly tasting or savoring it. I found myself…
Read MoreFingerprints.
by Maggie Utsey fingerprints.They tell a story all by themselves. Anointed and blessed are my days. His fingerprints are all over them. This week began in a 15-passenger van packed with 8 languages and 7 eager faces ready to put their best foot forward. Hours and interviews later, I’d picked up new words in each…
Read MoreChanging the Reality in Haiti
By Jean-Baptiste Francois, Agriculture Manager, World Relief Haiti When I was a child, I had the opportunity to live in the rural area of Haiti with my uncle for two months every year during school vacations. For two decades, I saw my uncle always laboring the soil with a rake, pickaxe, hoe, and a cow…
Read MoreFollowing the Flood – Part 2
Paul Erickson continues his account of his journey through Gaza Province, Mozambique. To see more pictures, click here.It will take months and months for everyone to establish their normal lives again, if at all. But this will be unlikely if they don’t receive food and potable water and electricity soon. Those who stayed behind or…
Read MoreFollowing the Flood – Part 1
Thank you to Paul Erickson for this firsthand account and these pictures as he travels through the flood-affected areas in Mozambique. Saturday 26 January, 2013, Southern Gaza Province, Mozambique Just outside Chokwe, the road parallels an as yet swollen irrigation canal and Maposse comments that when he had last passed here, fleeing the rising flood waters,…
Read MoreSo Much Happening in Twenty-Thirteen…
by Larissa Peters, World Relief Communications Liaison I don’t know about you, but I have an especially good feeling about 2013. I admit, I keep a journal, and on the first of every year, I wonder what will fill its pages. The same is true in managing this blog – what will be the stories,…
Read MoreTransformation through Savings for Life™
In June, Second Presbyterian Church of Memphis, TN took a Vision Trip with World Relief to Mozambique and Malawi. One team member, Cory Brown, an attorney at Rainey, Kizer Reviere & Bell, PLC reflects on his trip: Our small team traveled to Malawi to explore a potential partnership with World Relief. On our second day…
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