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What you’ve taught us in the first year

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Lindsey Talerico-Hedren in Conversations

One year ago this week, the World Vision Blog was officially launched — and with it came a new way to share stories and reflections of our global work, while creating a forum for conversations with you, the supporters who make it all possible....

Got an iPhone? Find World Vision!

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Eugene Lee, WV publications in Conversations

New iPhone app from World Vision | World Vision Blog

iPhone users can now stay in touch with World Vision and keep up to date with humanitarian issues and emergency response news through World Vision Now, our new iPhone app! It’s easy to find — just search for “World Vision Now” in the App Store on your iPhone, and look for our orange icon. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions....

Photo stories from Swaziland

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Abby Metty in Child Sponsorship

Photo stories from the Valley of Heaven | World Vision Blog

World Vision photographer Abby Metty traveled last week to Swaziland with a group of pastors from Austin, Texas, to look at the impact of sponsorship on children in rural communities. The country has a 24-percent HIV infection rate, but World Vision is working to feed and care for thousands of orphaned and vulnerable children across the country. Here are some of Abby’s favorite pictures from the past week in the field....

The power of one person’s obedience

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Rich Stearns in Christian Witness

Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. | World Vision blog

I am continually astounded by the power of individual people to make a difference. After The Hole in Our Gospel was published, readers started sending me letters, telling me how God has used them to do remarkable things. Sometimes they took in foster children or became adoptive parents. Others changed careers or sold vacation property so they could be more useful to the kingdom of God. All of them are changing lives, spreading hope, and making the Gospel tangible to people in need. The power of individuals to change the world has been a theme in our culture over the last year. It was a single person who launched what became the Arab Spring. Protesting corruption and inequality, a street...

Answers from aid workers about Haiti

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Elizabeth Ranade-Janis in Conversations

Today is the two-year anniversary of the massive earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, leaving the nation in ruins and triggering an international relief response. In the time since, aid workers and relief organizations have experienced an unprecedented level of scrutiny surrounding the response: What is really happening there? Are donations going to good use? Is there hope? To gain some insight into these matters, we hosted an open mic for questions about Haiti this past week. Your submissions have been collected for responses from World Vision aid workers who have been focused on the relief efforts in Haiti — Jeff Wright and Liz Ranade-Janis. Jeff and Liz were deployed to Haiti following the 2010 quake to coordinate...