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Short-term teams: 5 ways to give support from home

The transition into summer means baseball, barbeques and sunburns. However, for a growing number of people, the summer months are synonymous with short-term mission trips. On any given Saturday, the…

Discovering the “Mission” in Mission Trips

How much can a mission team accomplish in one or two weeks overseas? It depends on a number of factors, but the most important factor is the year-round relationship that…

Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions

On the day I met Steve Corbett, he warned me about mold. It was September 2001, shortly after I had been accepted into the Hunger Corps program of Food for…

California Church Builds Long-Term Missions Partnership

My pastor, Chad, approached me with a simple request. “Does Food for the Hungry have a community where our church could partner?” The answer was, “Of course!” There were dozens…

The Search for Truth in Identity

Responding Heart – arkwork by Scott Erickson Many of us struggle with who we are most of our lives. The term finding ourselves has long become synonymous with living our…

Hurricane season in Haiti – but don’t forget long-term community development

With Hurricane Isaac recently causing havoc in Haiti, it is a good time to reflect that even when Haiti is not in the news for storms or earthquakes, FH is…

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Lions and macaws: Hunger killers

Lessons on caring for creation start early in Torotoro. It’s gone viral on social networks – a man showing the body of a recently-killed lion named Cecil, and the ensuing…

Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions

Massachusetts Church Finds Their Fit in Missions

Rich Lescarbeau went into his search for a missions partner with open eyes. His church’s pastor and several other church members at Harbor of Hope in North Chelmsford, Mass. had begun…

Women farmers in the Congo (DRC) pave the way for healthier families

History The Congolese people have suffered at the hands of exploitative leaders and civil war for decades.  Beginning with the regime of King Leopold of Belgium (1885-1908), continuing in the…

Philippines Response: Applying Lessons from Indonesia to Haiyan

Many will remember the tsunami on December 26, 2004, that wiped out large parts of Indonesia and Thailand. The final death toll was more than 230,000 people, with millions more…

Devotional Day 13: God Will Be with You (#fhbloggers)

But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” – Exodus 3:11 (ESV) If you ever come across…