Faces of Love – Rosa’s Story
Faces of Love – Max’s Story
Max* is short in stature, thin, with blond hair and beautiful bright blue eyes, has some speech deficiencies, and prefers to play alone. His start at the center was slow-paced. With unmet emotional and material needs, Max was lacking the desire to attend school and the center. As the youngest in his family, he had…
Faces of Love – Julian and Gabriel’s Story
Every Thursday, our community looks forward to visiting our friends in the Kroo Bay Community during our Outreach program. On this particular Thursday, three of our staff met a young boy named Julian, in a heated quarrel with a relative, who threatened to hit him. They stayed to help calm the situation and later enquired…
Faces of Love – Allen’s Story
Allen, a youth in our Lighthouse program, was born in a small village nestled in the heart of the beautiful district called Port Loko. One day his Aunt visited them in the village and requested to take Allen with her to Freetown, to gain a better education. Allen’s father agreed, and soon after, he watched…
Hearing God’s Voice by Becca King
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight” Proverbs 3: 5-6 When picturing how God speaks to his people, I often think of the scene in Monty Pythons’ The Holy Grail where God is…
What Our Eyes See and What Our Ears Hear by Conrad Daives
In the United States, my wife and I do unity and reconciliation work in a 320,000-member city called Lexington, KY, the second-largest city in Kentucky. According to the US Census Bureau, the demographics of racial identity are statistically parallel to national data, except for its lower Hispanic population which directs our missional focus. Our ministry’s…
Encountering the Presence of Christ: Making a Case to go to Church by David Chronic
Many of us in Word Made Flesh (WMF) have had a hard time going to church. Of course, we know that church is important and connected to mission. In fact, part of our vision is to see those in poverty find their home in church and for the church to be home for those suffering…
Growing In Community by Tess Hartley
But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with…
Empty bags, Open Hands by Benjamin Grimm
Earlier this year, I planned a medical outreach with the intent to visit several of our most remote communities and demonstrate techniques for first aid and self-care. The routes had to be confirmed by our neighbors because some waterways were closed due to deadfalls. The arrangements were not a light undertaking. We had no extra…
Madlyn’s Testimony in Word Made Flesh Sierra Leone
I have been a part of Word Made Flesh Sierra Leone since the age of two, starting with the Good News Club in Kroo Bay and continuing on to graduating from the Light House program in 2018. Growing up in Word Made Flesh has been a truly unique experience. From a young age, I was…
A Lifegiving Privilege to Imitate Christ by Christella Dufitumukiza
For the past three and a half years, I have been finding myself in this beautiful community of women in Word Made Flesh Rwanda. Together we walk with Jesus who promises to provide abundant life (John 10:10). And He has. Here, in the slums, among these women who in the world’s eyes, have nothing, I…