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Bring Hope and Change Lives in Your Community!
Are you looking for a new way to serve your community?
Now is a great time to start a Chapter of HOPE worldwide in your congregation! Chapters are locally operated by appointed congregation members and are centrally managed from HOPE worldwide Headquarters in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
While becoming a Chapter has many benefits, we are most passionate about giving disciples the opportunity to serve the poor in their communities and congregations. We have found that when disciples volunteer it strengthens their faith and ultimately leads to a more grateful, giving, and God glorifying church.
A Dream Realized - the Village of HOPE (Video)
My wife and I have spent the last month living in India among the people of this fascinating nation. The churches are growing and the work for the poor of HOPE foundation is making a difference in the lives of many of the country's poor. Through the great work of Country Director Ian Correa and his team of dedicated workers and volunteers, HOPE foundation and HOPE worldwide are bringing hope and changing lives in 26 cities across the whole of India.
The Volunteer Challenge - La Paz, Bolivia
In La Paz, children are starving and living on the streets, they are abused, cold and alone. Young teen and even pre-teen mothers are caring for their own children, because they are victims of rape and abuse, usually from their own family environment. Many of you dream of helping the abandoned and unloved, who occupy more territory than those who can fend for themselves.
HOPE worldwide Thanks Supporters for Generous Support in 2011
Plans to Extend Aid to Poor and Needy in 2012
HOPE worldwide is grateful to its many financial supporters who stood behind our important work for the poor during 2011.
Randy Jordan, the organization's CEO, conveyed the thanks of the entire HOPE worldwide team, saying, "Our supporters not only helped us finish the year strong, but also provided vital momentum as we approach an even more demanding year of helping those in need." Thank you for standing with us in another year of service to the poor."
Anointed for Service: The NCAB and NYAC Convene for Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA — On February 24, 2012 HOPE worldwide volunteers who form the National Chapter Advisory Board (NCAB) and the National Youth Advisory Council (NYAC) met together in Philadelphia for the 2nd annual Servant Leadership Retreat. The theme was “Anointed: Ordinary People, Doing Extraordinary Things”—an appropriate theme for this group of servant leaders comprised of teens, college students and working professionals who are engaged full-time in other pursuits yet still find a way to give back to those in need around them.
HOPE worldwide Volunteer Honored by ESPN
Central New Jersey HS Senior Recognized for Excellence
This week ESPN honored 36 student athletes who not only excel in their sports but in academics and community service as well. On their list was HOPE worldwide volunteer Kendall Baldwin. Kendall is a volunteer in the Central New Jersey Chapter and has served on HOPE Youth Corps and as an AmeriCorps Intern with our summer programs. Kendall is a high school senior and plans to attend Harvard in the fall.
Needed: Young Men With Servant Hearts
HYC has exciting summer opportunities just for you!
A Book Review of The Hole in our Gospel by Richard Stearns
“What does God expect of us?” Richard Stearns, author of the book The Hole in our Gospel, asks this thought provoking question. There are many ways we could answer this question, but Stearns asks us to consider the following expanded version of this question: Does God expect us to focus more on meeting the needs of the poor? Stearns tells of his own journey from living in the comforts of corporate America to working with orphaned children in Africa. His story and struggle ring true to many of us.
One Child’s Hope
HOPE worldwide Community Service Brigade – Guatemala
It is hard for us to imagine the emotional and physical pain many people endure each day. However, HOPE worldwide volunteers encounter hundreds living in the midst of the most painful poverty and disease daily. In Guatemala, we met Lizeth a very charming, intelligent and outgoing 11-year old despite the fact she was unloved by her mother and given to her aunt.
HOPE worldwide Announces Next Global Summit in 2013
In a spirit of cooperation with sponsoring churches, HOPE worldwide has scheduled its next Global Summit conference for May 2013.