If you’ve been following @ForgottenVoices on twitter lately, you’ve probably noticed a lot of tweets with the hashtag #FVAfrica. These updates are coming directly from Ryan Keith and our team as they journey through Zimbabwe and Zambia to meet with our project partners. Here’s a few recent updates from their trip: Goodnight dear friends. Powerful [...]

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Do you have a heart for orphaned and vulnerable children? Then come to Summit 8 and equip yourself to serve! Taking place May 3-4, 2012 at Saddleback Church in Southern California, an anticipated 2000+ pastors, advocates, organizations and ministry leaders will be joining together to further the cause of kids worldwide. Workshops, networking, guest speakers, and [...]

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This year, as part of our advent blog series we’re featuring posts from a host of Forgotten Voices supporters around the theme of unexpected hope in unexpected places. If you haven’t been following along, a number of truly inspiring stories about unexpected hope have been shared,  such as the 17 widows who are sewing their way out of [...]

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A few nights ago, I had the privilege of watching The Help while on a date with my wife, (you know the “at home” kind of date that becomes commonplace once you become parents and can’t leave the house after 7:00pm bedtime). I will do my best not to spoil the entire movie through this post, but [...]

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During this Christmas Season I find myself thinking of the unexpected hope that Christ brought into the world and our lives at the time of His birth. Although the list of what God has done for us goes on and on, a few of the highlights that I think about during this season are the [...]

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Having trouble finding a gift for someone this holiday season? If you’re like me, you have a few friends and coworkers on your gift list that just seem to already have everything. Or maybe they don’t like anything. Whatever the reason, finding a memorable gift for certain people just seems harder than it should be, [...]

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Each month we receive prayer and praise updates from the churches with whom we partner across Zimbabwe and Zambia. Below are just a few of those updates. We hope you’ll take some time to pray about these requests and praises, and remember the work of our church projects in Africa. You can learn more about [...]

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Forty days after the birth of Jesus, in accordance with Jewish law, Mary and Joseph took their newborn son to the temple to fulfill the requirements for purification and redemption. In his account of the events at the temple, in Luke 2:25-38, Luke takes special note of two individuals whom the family encounters, Simeon and [...]

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There is no language that can fully express the joy and expectation of Advent, but there is a beauty in exploring the way others talk about the coming of the King. This season, I have been moved to reflect on the Spanish verb “esperar”. The word means both “to hope” and “to expect” and “to [...]

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Materialism is the master of holiday shopping anymore wouldn’t you say? Christmas decor up before Thanksgiving? Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving day? It makes you wonder if the holiday of gratitude will soon be replaced entirely by our growing appetite to find the best deals and give the biggest toys. Now don’t get me wrong, [...]

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