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What makes an advocate?

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What makes an "advocate"? | World Vision Blog
What does it mean to be an advocate? Dictionary.com defines advocate as “a person who speaks or writes in support or defense of a person, cause, etc.” For me, that definition feels impersonal. The 120 young people in Washington, D.C., this week for World Vision’s Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) summit bring personalization and breathe life into advocacy. Friday was Capitol Hill day for the fifth annual YEP Summit. Teenagers came from urban centers or rural hamlets across the United States. Many live in poverty or in areas plagued by violence and drug or alcohol abuse. Despite their troubles, they refuse to give up. They refuse to be beaten down. They stand up for their communities. They advocate....
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Four days old: Many hopes, many challenges in new South Sudan

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4 days old: South Sudan | World Vision Blog
Chants of “Republic of South Sudan Oyee” will forever be etched in the minds of many South Sudanese as they reminisce over their independence — today, only four days old. An overflowing crowd of people, both young and old, showed up at the John Garang Memorial to mark the historic event on July 9. Tens of thousands of South Sudanese endured the blistering sun, all along energized, as they erupted into song and dance when the country became the world’s 193rd country and Africa’s 54th. I saw men and women faint as the declaration was made. Others openly broke into tears as the new flag was hoisted....
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Always enough love for one more

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A note of the sweetest kind | World Vision
This note was simply too sweet not to share. A little background: I first started talking to Debbie on our Facebook page, where she leaves us daily comments of encouragement. On Facebook, we’ve shared in Debbie’s passion and deep love for all seven of her sponsored children. When she receives a letter from one of her “littles” from Thailand, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Brazil, Zambia, or Mexico, it makes our day, too. So when she heard about our bloggers trip to Bolivia, you can guess what she did next…...
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Your role in changing our world

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Your role in changing our world | World Vision Blog
Imagine for a moment that you woke up tomorrow and discovered you were on a different planet in a different part of the universe without any idea of how you got there. Imagine what you would feel and the questions that would rush into your mind. Well, I have news for you – that exact thing has happened to every one of us. Sometime in the past 100 years, we were all born on the third planet from the sun in a solar system within the Milky Way galaxy, in a universe that is incomprehensibly vast. We had no idea how we got here, all we know is that we were born into the middle of a story that started...
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Rich Stearns on Independence, God, and South Sudan

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Pre-independence celebrations in Juba. ©2011 Abraham Nhial/World Vision
God wasn’t the first thing on my mind on Monday, the Fourth of July. Truthfully, the only credit I can give myself is that I was thanking God for the three-day weekend. It’s not far-fetched to say that most Americans likely think of Independence Day as more of an outdoor show than an obvious reason to thank and honor God. That’s why articles like Rich Stearns’ in the Huffington Post are kind of a divine challenge for me — a reminder that peace and freedom are reasons to thank God, and that with Independence there is struggle, but also hope. May South Sudan’s first Independence Day be that of the latter. And may Rich’s article challenge you as it has...
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