You never know what kind of impact a small and seemingly meaningless act of kindness can have on another person.

Hope Ignited has been working alongside local leaders to transform communities and provide a spark of hope in Guinea, West Africa for 14 years.  As we celebrate this milestone, we thought it would be fitting to share our story once again, and to rejoice together over t...

I’ve been thinking lately about the following Bible verse:

“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.” -Matthew 12:33

When we look at a fruit tree, what do we see?  We see the trunk, we se...

On a recent trip to Guatemala, we were in the middle of co-hosting a medical clinic for the city of San Jose Pinula when I was asked to step outside. I went outside and both Chuck, Oscar and myself were asked to climb into the Toyota pickup truck with the Mayor of the...

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By God’s grace, our trip to Guinea in November was an overwhelming success. Our goal was to accomplish three things – encourage and empower the local church through training, follow up on the land grant from the Guinean Government...

I recently went to the eye doctor for my annual checkup, and although I wear glasses, I didn’t have any problems seeing.   However, once the doctor started checking my vision, we both realized that this was not the case!   I had just become familiar with “not seeing cl...