Sometimes it feels easier just to focus on the people in front of us. The world’s a big place, and there are a lot of hurting and vulnerable children in every part of it. But let’s reject the lie that we cannot make a difference with such an immense problem. God is also in every part of the work, at work in churches, …
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Caring for Orphans at Home and Abroad: Matching Grant Opportunity
God designed the family as the place for children to be protected, nurtured, and to learn about him. Yet there are 200 million children worldwide, with no mother or father able to care for them. In the United States alone, almost 500,000 children are in foster care. Here is the big lie that many Christians believe: “There …
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Supporting Cuban Churches in Loving At-Risk Kids
Hope for Orphans has visited and served in North Korea, Haiti, China, Thailand, South Korea, Ukraine, Guatemala, Honduras and Canada, but nothing has quite been like what we have seen in Cuba. Over the last year and half, HFO has had the privilege to get to know churches and Christians in Cuba. The biggest thing we’ve noticed …
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The Island that Christ Has Not Forgotten
By Matthew Golic Tell a fellow American you just returned from a week in Havana, Cuba and you will field some variation of the inevitable question about the cars. The beautiful, and by American estimation, priceless symbol of everything pre 1959. And you will answer, yes, the cars are real and they are amazing. They are in …
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