I remember Anne as a sad, shy girl, when she came to the Seed of Hope orphanage in Kitale, Kenya.
That was in 2002 and she was 7 years old. She had just seen her mother die from AIDS and her father had run away years before. She was devastated and could not understand why she [...]
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In June of 2008, an organization called to tell me they had a container (the size of an 18-wheeler) with close to 700,000 portions of dehydrated food that they wanted to donate to Guatemala.
They asked that Buckner take care of the logistics and distribution. My concern was that Buckner doesn’t have distribution capacities. We rely [...]
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Mary poured out very expensive oil to anoint Jesus’ feet, which upset Judas Iscariot; Judas was not only a thief but the one who would betray Jesus.
Judas argued that the expensive oil could be sold to provide for the poor, but Jesus replied: “You will always have the poor with you, but you won’t always [...]
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