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The Resurrection of our Lord and Savior!!! Christ Is Risen! About the Icon: The Resurrection of our Lord Christ – the central figure; He is robed in white to denote His Divinity. In some icons you will see the aureole (elongated halo) encompasses Him, this also symbolizes this brilliant Light; at His feet are the…

On Great Saturday our focus is on the Tomb of Christ. This is no ordinary grave. It is not a place of corruption, decay and defeat. It is life-giving a source of power, victory and liberation. O happy tomb! It received within itself the Creator, as one asleep, and it was made a divine treasury…

Continuing the journey on this Special Christian holiday… The Following Explanation of the Good Friday Evening Service is written by Rev. Alkiviadis Calivas, and can be found in his book entitled, "Great Week and Pascha in the Greek Orthodox Church." On Good Friday evening Church celebrates the Orthros Service for Holy and Great Saturday. On…

I love celebrating the events of Holy Week and today is Good Friday. Christians observe Good Friday (for English-speaking Eastern Orthodox Christians, “Great and Holy Friday”) as the day Jesus was crucified and died. It is the most somber day on the Christian calendar. On Good Friday, some Christians abstain from meat or refrain from…

I’ve been on the road the last five days. Great meetings with folks from DATA, Bono’s organization which stands for Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa and The One Campaign. Children’s HopeChest is now the newest member and we are honored to join them in the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty. Also, I spent the weekend…

This Labor Day weekend 2007, Children’s HopeChest will be hosting our first ever 1/2 marathon to support orphans around the world in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This event is called, Run for One and athletes who run will be running to champion the cause of a better life for one orphan in Africa and Russia. The…

Uganda is one of the few countries in the world to implement a successful program to reduce the number of HIV infections. Interestingly enough their success has come not from handing out condoms, but on teaching faithfulness and abstinence until marriage. To read the history about HIV/AIDS in Uganda, please click here.

It looks like we, at Children’s HopeChest, will be opening up Uganda in the near future. Uganda is the home to over 2 million orphans according to UNICEF, and that was in 2003. 1 million of those orphans are orphaned due to AIDS and estimates say that number will rise to between 8-10 million by…

After returning from Africa, I can’t get my mind off of my abundance and their lack. What do I mean? I get up in the morning, have a piping hot Starbucks, a big breakfast, a nice lunch meeting at PF Chang’s, and a huge dinner with my family in the evening. I don’t think twice…

I’ve been in Africa and a little behind the times, but thanks to my friend, Ken Nussbaum, I’m caught up. On a side note, Ken and I used to serve together in a youth ministry in Dallas, Texas. I love how the internet brings lost friends together! At any rate, watch this the whole way…
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