


From pain to joy: Tejie’s journey to safe motherhood
Tejie knew about pain. She was familiar with all its forms — physical agony, emotional sorrow, spiritual anguish, and social torment. Her suffering centered on an injury she sustained during childbirth — an obstetric fistula — that would brand her as an outcast to her...
Longing for God in a war-torn land
I’m a reader. I’ve always loved reading books, and my home is filled with bookshelves that are literally bursting at the seams. While I’m thankful to have a home filled with stories, if I didn’t have a copy of God’s Word — the ultimate story — my bookshelves would be...
Giving dignity through pillows and blankets
Miceaela lay on a grimy mat on the dirt floor of her home in Guatemala. Her roof was leaking, but she was unable to get up to fix it — she could only wait for the rain to stop as her floor turned to mud. Miceaela hadn’t always been trapped on this mat. But...