Our team is back from a wonderful journey to Kenya. We are encouraged by all the work God is doing in Mai Mahiu. Hear from our co-founder Amber Burger as she shares about the trip!
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Over the next two months we will be highlighting our partnership with Rift Valley Fellowship in Kenya. Watch this video update from Vernon and hear about ways to pray and partner with us during August and September.
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Since the very beginning, our God has made clear His rhythm of restoration. The Creator works to restore His creation and His people and in doing so, brings us full circle, back into right relationship with Him.
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Today we are interviewing a long time student with HVG Banja Innocent. Big things are coming as we start phase one of the Arise Discipleship and Retreat Center.
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We are invited to not only celebrate Easter on one Sunday a year, but the invitation is to learn how to continually express the hope of resurrection in our every day lives. The focus of HVG is to partner with community leaders in order to empower vulnerable women and children.
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Uganda has become a springboard for many of our South Sudanese young men and women. The education systems of South Sudan are still remote and developing throughout the country, so Uganda has become a part of our educational pipeline.
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Vernon recently went to Washington DC in order to take part in some congressional meetings that allowed him to talk about the ways HVG helps to defend the cause of vulnerable women and children.
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When we pray for an awakening, this is not some type of abstract thinking. Ultimately, what we are after is to see life how God sees life and then to live the love He empowers us with.
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Compassion starts with a quality of attentiveness that requires the simple act of noticing the other as a person.
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We are invited to not only celebrate Easter on one Sunday a year, but the invitation is to learn how to continually express the hope of resurrection in our every day lives. The focus of HVG is to partner with community leaders in order to empower vulnerable women and children.
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There is great hope that can be experienced and expressed in a tribe. It is this sense of tribe that has power to root us into a community, while learning to appreciate and encourage the diversity of another tribe.
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Ruth Haley Barton says, “You would be surprised what your soul wants to say to God. You would be surprised what God wants to say to your soul.” It is this type of freedom in prayer we must dedicate ourselves to exploring.
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Last November we completed six weeks of our Foundation of Hope theological training with our partner in Kenya, Rift Valley Fellowship. Our hope for this training has always been that we would serve the indigenous church to help raise up leaders who would be able to share the good news of the gospel.
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I have been spending quite some time praying over South Sudan and the ways forward for peace. In this pursuit, I am continually coming back to Isaiah 58. Please take time to see the deep practicality this passage gives.
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After our economic development team spent eight days in Uganda studying the feasibility of a for-profit business we headed home encouraged. We had productive meetings, made new friends, built new relationships and answered many questions.
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This year I have been praying incessantly that as an organization and personally, we would live into the smile of God, and in turn, live the smile of God to others.
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I just recently got back from South Sudan with my great friend and colleague, Stan Fikes. We have been traveling to this beautiful place for over 15 years. We have seen brilliance and devastation, restoration and destruction, peace and war. It has been a mixture of...
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God has given us a deep love for each and every one of our partners in East Africa. Because of this love, we are bound to them and are committed to serve them long-term. Through this love God leads us to seek physical, social, mental, and spiritual flourishing. This is a foretaste of what is to come on the New Heaven and New Earth, and is why we exist.
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Last week we talked about three areas that needed understanding in order to help get a better grasp of what was happening in South Sudan. This week we will chat a bit about the “root of war” as understood through the lens of Jesus. Jesus says the two greatest...
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Looking back at 2017 this verse has continued to resonate in my mind. At the beginning of every year, we plan, set budgets, and pray that God will provide for the needs and projects before us.
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