Advent: the season of expectation
Like a child awaiting Christmas Day … like a mother awaiting the birth of her child in a stable … like the world awaiting a Savior — there are so many people in our world expectantly waiting for change. Advent is the season of expectation. Every day we draw closer to...
When you give water, you change a life
Christmas is just around the corner, which means the World Help Gifts catalog is back! And it’s full of ways you can choose to transform a life. Every gift is unique, which means there’s a gift that’s perfect for you! Many of our gifts are immediate — they provide...
Umuoru Usmuode: The village with no water
The villagers of Umuoru Usmuode in Nigeria were tired. Each morning, the children of the village would venture out with buckets to walk the long, dangerous road to the nearest water source. By the time they filled their buckets from the dirty, shallow stream two miles...
Your love arrived in rural India
Manisha was only a few years old when her low-caste, impoverished community dissolved into mayhem. Her rural village of Nath Maholla was overlooked for centuries. Desperation skyrocketed when government regulations banned one of the community’s main sources of income:...
Urgent need: Mosul’s people poisoned by dirty water
It wasn’t long after ISIS took control of the city of Mosul that residents began falling sick. Baffled at first, many assumed the widespread sickness was the result of harsh living conditions and exposure to trauma … but they were wrong. Mosul’s people were being...
Every day, I try to live my life in such a way that I accomplish at least one thing that will outlive me and last for eternity.