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Award winning author Lisa Samson has a new book out called Love Mercy: A Mother and Daughter’s Journey from the American Dream to the Kingdom of God - and you have to read it! Lisa and her daughter, Ty, came with me on a trip to Swaziland, Africa two years ago. This book is about [...]

This just kills me. This means there are a lot more cases unreported. Please, please pray with us and send this to your friends to pray too. There’s still so much work to do in Swaziland. This comes from our Country Director’s blog - Jumbo and Kriek. We have seen great progress in Ministry here in [...]

According to data provided by UNAIDS, the longer a girl in Swaziland stays in school, the less likely she is to have sex before age 18. How likely? Girls who make it to university or "tertiary" education have less than 20% likelihood of having their first sexual encounter before age 18. For girls with no education: over 80%. 4 in 5 girls with no education are exposed to sex before age 18.

Registration is now open for the Christian Alliance for Orphans’ Summit VI in Minneapolis, MN! Summit has become the national focal point for Christians committed to adoption, foster care and global orphan care ministry.  Join organizational leaders, grassroots advocates, pastors, and ministry entrepreneurs that share your passion.  Encounter the unparalleled hub of orphan ministry partnership, networking [...]

Today I am announcing the official start of the Scared Education Campaign–a long-term goal to invest in the education of 30 talented orphans in Swaziland. In Swaziland, secondary education levels are among the lowest in the world. Less than 40 percent of children eligible to attend school can afford to enroll. At a cost of nearly [...]

HopeChest is excited to announce two upcoming travel trips, and YOU are invited. Ethiopia Vision Trip: 04/18 - 04/28. Uganda Mission Trip: 05/5 - 05/15.

“Why Africa?” is a question the Rev. Wil Crooks has heard numerous times since he visited the destitute village of Kapalebyong, in northern Uganda, last year. Crooks — the executive pastor of The River, a downtown Kalamazoo church started in 2004 by Third Reformed Church — returned home to spearhead a missionary relief effort for the [...]

The final tally: 782 shirts. Amazing. Thank you. Right now Kari and her team are in the process of shipping out all the shirts, and you can stay updated at her blog, http://www.mycrazyadoption.org.

Children’s HopeChest will be conducting first of their kind mission trips, starting with this trip to Russia. Unlike our traditional vision trips which are targeted to pastors, mission’s pastors and large community leaders our mission trips are open to any prospective traveler (pending a background check) who would like to travel to one of our active countries.

Haiti's devastating earthquake may triple the number of orphans living on this small impoverished island. Already one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti's new orphan crisis will bring incredible strain upon the country's resources to care for children.