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Biblical Worldview: Both a Foundation and an Umbrella

By on August 17, 2012 in Church, World Poverty

 ”And through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross.” – Colossians 1:20 (NIV) “Why is there a dead chicken hanging in that tree?” I inquired while bumping down a dirt road in the Dominican Republic to visit Food for the [...]

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Young girl holding paper airplane in Ameya, Nicaragua.

On my desk…Helpless…but praying

By on July 27, 2012 in Church, Sponsor Impact, Stories

Reflecting on my first trip to the field You may have noticed that my title did not say ‘On my desk this week.’ As I’m writing posts about what I’m working on each week, I realized there are so many things I’ve worked on in the past that did not get the opportunity to be [...]

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Faith Summit on AIDS Receives Accolades

By on July 26, 2012 in Church, From Our Leadership, World Poverty

Yesterday was an exciting day here in Washington DC. As the AIDS2012 mega-conference with its 20,000 participants continued in the city, I spoke at a side Summit on the role of the Christian faith in the fight against AIDS. I was thrilled to be on a panel with Rick Warren from Saddleback Church, Raj Shah, [...]

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The faith community provides about 40% of healthcare worldwide

In Faith Toward an AIDS-Free Generation

By on July 24, 2012 in Church, From Our Leadership, World Poverty

As I prepare to serve on a discussion panel tomorrow with Rick Warren of Saddleback Church, Raj Shah of USAID, Lois Quam of the U.S. State Department, and others, I am amazed and humbled by what the international faith community has helped to accomplish over the past decade in rolling back the tide of AIDS, [...]

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Poiema … God’s Workmanship

By on July 23, 2012 in Church, Sponsor Impact, Stories

The early church taught about two types of lives: the Perfect life and the Permitted life. The spiritual and the secular. The Perfect life allows for reflection in place of work (monks, priests, nuns, anyone who does nothing but sit around and think holy thoughts, etc). The Permitted life requires labor. These people (the laborers) [...]

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Goodbye to cookie cutters: Three reasons to be glad

By on July 17, 2012 in Church, World Poverty

Now that I’ve gotten your attention with something food-oriented… In my FH world, “cookie cutter” refers to community development where an outsider comes to a village with a certain pre-packaged technical solution to a problem.  Every village would receive the same stuff with the same design.  The village’s decision is whether to accept or reject [...]

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Boy in green sweater with pen

Pen, paper and a future in Guatemala

By on June 19, 2012 in Church, Sponsor Impact

The photographer’s caption tells me the image comes from a place where Food for the Hungry works called “Rio Azul,” or “Blue River,” in Guatemala’s Ixil Triangle region.  But I see a story far beyond a young child poised to draw something. The green in little boy’s sweater mirrors the thick vegetation I remember from [...]

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From Hopeless to Blessed: Partnerships Save and Transform Lives

By on June 1, 2012 in Church, Sponsor Impact, Stories, World Poverty

Wilfred lived at the top of a steep hill in the Haitian village of Lespinasse. His shack was made of sticks and mud and smelled of disease and neglect. Diabetes had rendered Wilfred blind, sick, helpless and difficult to look at. “My spirit was deeply troubled when I first met Wilfred,” remembers Heidi Hatch, Field [...]

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Church in Kenya rises to meet practical needs

By on May 15, 2012 in Church, Sponsor Impact

About this time last year, we learned about a local church in Kenya that chose to go against the flow of society by reaching out to the outcast: people living with HIV/AIDS. You can read that uplifting story here. Today, I want to tell you about another church in Kenya that has led its community in providing [...]

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Breaking the bonds of child slavery

By on April 26, 2012 in Church, Sponsor Impact

“The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners….”  Isaiah 61:1 She never smiled, talked or played. She never had [...]

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