Can you believe the holidays are right around the corner?! Soon our tables will be filled with turkeys, hams, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. My favorite time of year. A time when I really want to do something to help others and give gifts that make a difference. Enter a different way to drink you…

Back in July, I was invited to attend a roundtable event hosted by UNICEF. Recognizing the ever-increasing role of faith-based-organizations in responding to the global orphan crisis, UNICEF reached out to several leading Christian organizations–including Children’s HopeChest–to participate in this dialogue. Today, we’ll gather together to share ideas, best practices, and our collective energy and…

Next week, HopeChest is sending a team of 16 volunteer travelers to Ethiopia to bring the tangible Gospel into the lives of thousands of orphans. They’ve been preparing for months, and will soon be about the work of building school buildings, painting orphanages and dormitories, and bringing school supplies to poor Ethiopian villages. It is…

This Fall there are two trips headed over to Ethiopia with Children’s HopeChest. In Ethiopia, we are working amongst very poor and orphaned children who are often attending very crowded classrooms, like the one in this picture from Awassa, Ethiopia, where one of our teams will visit: I’ve posted this picture before, and every time…

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