World Refugee Day: A day to prevent more panicked phone calls like this
Ring … ring. Our partner along the Syrian border picked up the phone. He had been receiving so many phone calls lately, calls from refugees who were out of work because of the pandemic and were asking for food. This time it was an older woman on the other end of the...
Meet Pascal, a modern-day Job
Much like Job from the Bible, Pascal has lost a lot. His wife died. Then his children passed away. Not long after he remarried, his second wife died, too. In a short span of time, Pascal had lost everything. He eventually married a third time and had four more...
Singing through the hunger pains
“God has planned this. God has done this. God is a good God.” The upbeat a cappella song filled the small home in Zimbabwe. A grandmother and her grandchildren were singing praises to God despite their hardships. The week before, this family had been going hungry. “We...
Give someone the biggest (and most life-changing) gift they’ve ever received
What’s the biggest present you ever received? Maybe it was a giant box under the Christmas tree this past year … or a bicycle your parents hid in the garage for one of your childhood birthdays. There’s just something about a giant, beautifully wrapped present that can...
The coronavirus isn’t the only disaster
For people living in developing countries, life couldn’t seem to get much worse. The global coronavirus pandemic has left countless people without jobs and without a way to feed their families. And now, natural disasters are making an impossible situation even harder....
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.