It’s on all of our minds. It’s the first topic of conversation and the first headline on the news. The COVID-19 coronavirus is an escalating health concern across the globe and has been officially categorized as a pandemic. We are inundated with information. Daily, I’ve been checking the statistics and have watched as the...
Ending Poverty: Three Hopeful Signs
Could we see the end of extreme poverty in our lifetime? Just two hundred years ago, almost the entire world’s population lived in extreme poverty. Today, less than 10 percent do. (In the past forty years alone, the percent of people living in extreme poverty has dropped by over 30 percentage points.) In my...
The Myth of Rest
Today’s guest post is written by co-worker and friend, Rachel Weaver. Rachel serves as the Senior Recruitment and Retention Specialist at HOPE International. She is also the co-author of a new children’s series, Called & Courageous Girls, which tells the stories of brave women of the Bible and inspires young girls and boys alike...