A Pre-Thanksgiving Celebration – 500,000!!!!

Oh such joyous news to report!!  Such a Thanksgiving gift!! We have officially passed the 500,000 meals mark at International Voice of the Orphan (aka IVO.Global)!! You all – it’s amazing!! Together –  you and IVO.global! Together we have fed over 500,000 meals to orphans, street children and vulnerable treasures! Celebrate that for a minute and…

Calling All Kids!!

Well Miss Ruby has been up to the most amazing thing to date!!   I told her neurosurgeon and he excitedly remarked, “Now you just have  to get it on video and upload it!”    Well, I finally {!} got her doing it on video and I have tried multiple times  to upload it to…

Let’s GO Together

Does your heart break over the orphan crisis? Let’s GO Together. Is adventure something you crave? Let’s GO Together. Wonder what it would be like to feed the street orphans? Let’s GO Together. Think it would be a beautiful thing to serve along a missionary? Let’s GO Together. Long to make your days count. Let’s…

Two Worlds…His and Ours

As he was handed the package of crackers by the April GO Team members, he couldn’t bite into them fast enough. We aren’t even sure if he knew that the wrapper was a wrapper, or if he thought it was all  part of the food or if he just didn’t care, he was *that* hungry….

Feeling Pampered

There’s a wee little miracle-girl laying beside me squealing, giggling, kicking, “talking” and gently rubbing my leg…{and she’s been doing it since somewhere around 1:45 am}.  Jet lag has had me up as well…and so I’ve been awake since 1:15am.   Clearly little Miss Ruby is happy her mommy is home and her mommy is…

Thoughts From My Heart

The April 2013 GO Team had the privilege of going to the Nile  last week.   Most of our teams end up there.  It is always such an exhilarating sight for my soul,  personally speaking. There is something about knowing that the great prophet and  leader of the Jewish nation,  Moses, once lay in a basket…

The Streets

She said she was ten years old.   With strained difficulty she had tried to get to where we were handing out food. As she struggled to walk,  Emma looked toward the young girl’s foot, no wonder she was hobbling – her foot was completely mangled. In fact it was hard to recognize that it…

Out of 2,500 People

I had the privilege of hearing an amazing story the other day.  It still has me shaking my head and smiling and giggling.   You are gonna’ love it. Our amazing God. He cares. He works behind the scenes. And He does it in extremely extraordinary ways! Why does He do that? Well, I’m guessin’…

Tucked In

Someone made a comment the other day about enjoying hearing good news. The comment made me stop in my tracks.  It’s true. In an age where troubles about, we all need some good news. Over here in our home we have been rejoicing in some super good things…and all of a sudden I realized that…

Did Ya’ Ever?

Did ya’ ever ponder going to Africa to serve the orphans? Did you ever hear of others going and long to go as well? Did you ever wonder when it was going to be your turn to go? Did you ever dream of meeting up with some like-minded folks to snuggle and care for little…