From Joe Knittig, Live in the Philippines
We’re here with our Filipino partner in Malaybalay at the children’s village. (Hey Comfort family, lots of great pics and video coming your way!)
You’ve heard us talk quite a bit recently about […]
Joe Knittig, Philippines
Things are solid here in the Philippines, except for 2 things. One serious; one funny.
One: Typhoon Juan, a nasty one with 200 mph winds, is raging through. Fortunately, it’s north of us right now. […]
“Don’t do for others what they can do for themselves” is a foundational principle presented in, When Helping Hurts, one of the leading books on Third World missions. Most people in Malawi haven’t read the book. They […]
Several years ago a Youth Pastor cared enough to cut through the noise and pour Truth into a young man. He connected with him, invested in him, pointed him to Jesus, and set his life on a God-honoring […]
Last week, we spent several days with Pastor Moise Vaval, our Field Director in Haiti. The time together reminded me again of why God directs us to work with His local church.
During prayer, Moise received a word that […]
Your creativity to help orphaned and abandoned children often amazes us. Moise and I spent some time this morning with the McElyeas. Kevin and Janet McElyea have seven children and run an engineering business, but in their […]
700 people from 12 states descended upon the Uptown Theater Saturday night. The energy, anticipation, and expectation leading up to The BIG Event was almost palpable.
Two days later, we are grateful. Grateful for the work of 90 […]
In the book Mountains Beyond Mountains, Dr. Paul Farmer says that poor people don’t want someone to come visit them, put on peasants’ clothing, and sit in their poverty. They’d rather someone put on a suit, […]
Tate Williams, our Director of Operations in Haiti, recently wrote a report about construction materials. He evaluated a number of options across various factors like earthquake resistance, availability, and install-ability. His final recommendation: we […]
Many know the story: a boy walks a beach littered with starfish stranded by low tide. A man at a distance watches the boy throw one starfish after another back into the water and sneers, “Boy, what does […]