| Christian recording artist Carmen D’Arcy travels with Orphan Outreach to Guatemala |
Christian recording artist Carmen D’Arcy traveled on the Midday Connection mother/daughter trip as a worship leader for the team and the children they ministered to. D'Arcy, a talented singer/songwriter, leads worship and directs the choir at the 6,000-member Grace Community Church near Indianapolis. She recently released a new worship album, A Place Called Grace. In 2006, her song "I Want to Sing" was selected as the GMA Academy Worship Song of the Year.
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| The best playground in Honduras and a lot more. |
Thirty WaYfm listeners and staff traveled to Honduras in June and returned utterly changed by what God allowed them to be a part of in Tegucigalpa. The delivery and installation of a playground at a school in the slum of Nueva Suyapa was a huge undertaking for a 10 day mission trip but it was also just part of the blessing the team brought to the country.
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School Supplies Change the Lives
and Futures of Children in Guatemala
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The little girl's eyes lit up and she clapped her hands with excitement when she saw what the woman brought into the classroom. She could hardly stay in her seat as she waited for the announcement to be made. Mrs. Patty Arzu, wife of the mayor of Guatemala City, shared with the children in the classroom that they were receiving a very special gift. That gift had come from hundreds of people in the United States who wanted them to each have their own school supplies.
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Orphan Outreach Staff and Members of the Local Church
Disciple Orphans in the Leningrad Region of Russia
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"We love when the pastor from the church prays with us at the end of the lesson," said the assistant director of the orphanage in Luga, Russia. This caregiver and others like her, are joining the children in the orphanages at Luga and Nikolsky for Orphan Outreach's weekly small group Bible studies led by Orphan Outreach staff and members of the local church.
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| The Visible Hand of God |
Underlying each initiative of Orphan Outreach—as depicted in its logo—is the visible hand of God. No more did this small team of professionals, who have more than 50 years of combined experience, see God’s hand than in the months following April 2007, when they first opened their doors in Dallas. Their mission—to provide “a voyage of hope” to more than 140 million orphans (by UNICEF estimates) worldwide.
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| Sharing Christ's Love with Children in Guatemala |
On Thursday, January 3, 2008, our team arrived at the Baptist Daycare Center in Guatemala City, a preschool where mothers leave their children as they go to work at the city dump. They are the lowest paying jobs in the worst part of the city. Many of the jobs involved recycling trash from the dump for resale to big, ugly, filthy trucks that drove up to buy the plastic and cardboard and etc. by the pound from the poor people who sold it.
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Orphan Outreach Celebrates Christmas with Orphans in Russia and India
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More than 650 children living in orphanages in Russia and India received Christmas gifts this year. For many of the children, it was the first Christmas gift they had ever received.
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| A Hallelujah Chorus: A home for HIV-positive orphans offers hope |
When guests come to visit Dr. Lalita Edwards’s home in Pune, India, seventeen children line up in rows—tall girls in the back, short boys in the front—to sing a chorus of hallelujahs. They stand in their bare feet on a woven rug, beside metal bunk beds. As they sing, caregivers spring up to straighten the children’s shirts like any parent would at a child’s recital.
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| The Cost of Ministry |
What is the cost of ministry? Jesus said we are to take up our cross and follow Him. Paul said he counted all things worthless for the privilege of knowing Christ. When the Lord asked the rich young ruler to give up all he owned to follow Him, he walked away in sorrow because he knew at that instant how much he valued his material possessions.
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| When Jesus was Down in the Dumps |
When I say “down in the dumps”, you probably think I mean Jesus was discouraged or despondent. No, I mean he was literally down in the dumps, the trash dump. Jesus was really there, I saw Him !!!!
There are many terrible, awful, horrible places in the world. The trash dump in Tegucigalpa, Honduras ranks up there with any of them.
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| Acting by Faith |
One of my favorite verses of the bible is Hebrews 11:35 -38. The writer of Hebrews has finished his list of men and women who showed extraordinary faith and then with a sense of exhaustion says in verse 32, “And what more shall I say?” He then lists others he had not mentioned and then begins describing acts of faith by those who no one will ever know their names.
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| Quenching Parched Hope |
The trucks do not bring enough water to India’s Shahbad dairy village. Isolated on Delhi’s west side, in an area known more for its cattle than thriving commerce, Shahbad lacks so much water that villagers must travel six miles to get the amount necessary for drinking and sanitation.
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| Orphan Outreach Receives IRS Tax-Exempt Status |
Orphan Outreach has received its Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 501(c)(3) not-for-profit tax exempt status. As a recognized charitable organization, Orphan Outreach is now able to accept charitable contributions and offer donors a tax deduction for their gifts.
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AIDS orphans grasp for aid and care
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"There are a few that cannot come out to play today. They are sick," the nurse informs us at a Vladivostok orphanage for HIV/AIDS orphans associated with the children's hospital No.3. Indeed many of the orphanage's children become too ill to play. Though looking down the hall as three of the children run to tackle another volunteer with hugs singing, "Swing me! Swing me!" it is hard to imagine that these children will ever lack in youthful energy. [continue reading]
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The Ten-Cent Solution
Cheap private schools are educating poor children across the developing world—but without much encouragement from the international aid establishment. |
If good ideas were all that mattered, everybody who has heard of Jeffrey Sachs would have heard of James Tooley as well—but they aren’t, and you almost certainly haven’t. In fact, even if you are keenly interested in education, aid, or Third World development, which are Tooley’s areas of research, you still probably haven’t heard of him.
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| The Root of Evil |
We walked up a narrow dark hallway past a Eunuch with a vacant stare sitting on a ledge and turning his head slowly as we passed as if warning us of what we were entering. The feeling of being smothered by evil was pervasive. One of our group said as we entered the area, “We are entering into the lions den.” I felt we were entering into Satan’s lair as we hesitantly made our way up the stairs. A fleeting thought of fear – a feeling of dread sent a shiver through me and caused me to pause as I slowly walked up the dark dirty steps. It was as if a voice was telling us – “You are in my domain and you are not welcome – get out.” [continue reading]
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| To Walk In His Works |
I walked up a narrow stairwell to a small two room office which was formerly a bordello and now housed a ministry giving light to an area full of darkness. As I entered the room, my eyes were immediately drawn to a very ill woman sitting under the sink wearing a surgical mask. Her eyes told her story – she was dying of aids. [continue reading]
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As the AIDS epidemic alone claims the lives of millions of parents in impoverished nations, Orphan Outreach, a new social service charity, is debuting in Dallas to reach out to children in need around the world. The non-denominational Christian-based organization is launching its Web site www.orphanoutreach.org today, providing a virtual link between volunteers, churches, overseas staff and donors meeting the spiritual, physical, emotional and educational needs of orphaned children. [continue reading]
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