Skip to main content

It's a beautiful New Year’s Day

"It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day..."--U2
Communities of Shalom Uganda graduation sponsored by WorldHope Corps 2016
Happy New Year to all my WorldHope Corps friends!

I hope you're not working on New Year's Day and that you will relax and have some fun!

I wanted to share this post of appreciation at the beginning of this new and beautiful day. 

Most of all, I just want to tell you how much I appreciate you: your gifts and graces, love and support, long-time friendship, and good work in behalf of WorldHope Corps in 2017.

Just two months ago, the cupboards were bare; we had accounts payable and unfunded projects. You responded to the need, made donations and spread the word. Today, all our debts are paid, last year's projects paid for, and we're whole again!  And most (though not all) of our projects are funded for 2018!

Our Water Store in Uganda is back in business, pumping out clean, filtered water for over 5,000 people, and its funded for 2018.   We have another village well to drill in Malawi----#66!  The Shalom Farmers in Uganda are praying for a good harvest this Spring, free of draught and infestation. Our Mosquito Net distribution fund has $3,000 for more nets. And Dennis Singini's salary (as Program Director of WorldHope Corps Malawi) is secure for 2018!

We still need to raise more funds for Mosquito Nets ($7k), Hope Scholarships ($3k), Women's Empowerment/HIV/AIDS training in Malawi($6k); as well as a second round of community development training for Bethany Nursery School in Palestine ($3k).  And I believe we shall.

Here's the link to our Mission Giving Catalog for 2018 to review and share with others:  https://www.northwindinstitute.org/worldhopecorps
Take a look and see if there is another project that warms your heart that you might want to sponsor at some point in the New Year. 

And be sure to keep on singing....

Have a happy and blessed New Year, my friends!

mjc

P.S.  Please take a fresh look at my other blog posts in 2017 to see all the good we have done together this past year.  And be sure to subscribe to this blog for new post alerts. http://michael-christensen.blogspot.com/  

Dr. Michael J. Christensen, Director
WorldHope Corps, Inc.
P.O. Box 7688
San Diego, CA 92167
www.WorldHopeCorps.org

"Most of the people who have ever lived on this planet have been oppressed and poor.  
But their history was seldom written except in the Bible." --Richard Rohr

Like us on FB: https://www.facebook.com/worldhopecorps/  
Visit our website:  www.worldhopecorps.org  

When you shop online, support our mission: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/32-0213672 

Popular posts from this blog

Liberation Spirituality: Henri Nouwen and Gustavo Gutierrez in Dialogue

Liberation Spirituality: Henri Nouwen and Gustavo Gutierrez in Dialogue Lecture Notes: Presented by Michael J. Christensen, Ph.D.,  Associate Professor in the Practice of Spirituality and Ministry,  Drew University;  and  International Director, Communities of Shalom, The United Methodist Church Introduction “There is a little man in Peru, a man without any power, who lives in a barrio with poor people and who wrote a book.   In this book he simply reclaimed the basic Christian truth that God became human to bring good news to the poor, new light to the blind, and liberty to the captives.   Then years later this book and movement it started is considered a danger by [the USA, or Rome], the greatest power on earth.   When I look at this little man, Gustavo, and think about [the President of the US, or the Pope], I see David standing before Goliath, again with no more weapon than a little stone, a stone called A The...
Read more

First Generation Lambs Club Reunion

Fifteen of us gathered Saturday night at the Lambs Club for a 35 th year reunion of those who helped start the Lamb’s Church in Times Square in the mid to late 1970’s, including: Rev. Paul S. Moore , Founder of the Lamb’s Church of the Nazarene, and his wife, Tamara Dr. Michael J. Christensen , charter member and former associate pastor, and his wife Dr. Rebecca Laird Fr. William (BJ) Webe r, former Associate Pastor and Director of the Lamb’s Residency, and his wife Sheila who lived at the Lamb’s Jim and Dustee Hullinger, who were on staff together and made the Lamb’s their home for over 25 years Effie Canepa , who was the church pianist under 3 pastors, and her husband Peter Shirley Close, who attended the Lamb’s in the late 1970’s while studying, performing  and teaching music and voice Carl "Chappy" Valente , former associate pastor Rev. Bob DiQuatto , lead singer of the Church’s “Manhattan Project” and staff member of the Lamb’s, and his son Jason Rev. Gab...
Read more

Not Afraid of Death by Julia Esquivel

In reading your blog, Michael, I immediately think of these two poems is poem by Julia Esquivel, from Guatemala, whom I had the pleasure of meeting years ago.  Un abrazo, Ada Maria I AM NOT AFRAID OF DEATH I am no longer afraid of death I know well Its dark and cold corridors Leading to life. I am afraid rather of that life Which does not come out of death, Which cramps our hands And slows our march. I am afraid of my fear And even more of the fear of others, Who do not know where they are going, Who continue clinging To what they think is life Which we know to be death! I live each day to kill death; I die each day to give birth to life, And in this death of death, I die a thousand times And am reborn another thousand Through that love From my People Which nourishes hope! THREATEN WITH RESURRECTION They have threatened us with Resurrection There is something here within us which doesn’t let us sleep, which doesn’t let us rest, which doesn’t stop the pounding deep inside. It is t...
Read more