Meeting Yesica

This is a guest post from Bronwen Dunn. Bronwen works with me in the Food for the Hungry Artists Program. This trip to Guatemala was her first time to see FH’s work up close. And to meet her sponsor child. I hope you enjoy!  Imagine a moment when the world stands still and changes all […]

Loving Like God Intended

Often people visit Guatemala and focus on the things that they don’t have.  Closets full of clothes. Hot showers and warm beds. An abundance of choices when it comes to what they are going to eat and drink. But I can’t stop thinking about what they do have.  These people have love. The way the […]

El Quetzal Savings Group

There are a lot of things I love about FH. Our team. Our leadership. Our fields. Our programs. Our philosophy of sustainability and innovation in all things. But one of my very favorite things at FH is learning about and from our Savings Groups.  {You might remember in January when I met the Rose Savings […]

We Made It!

I left Nashville first thing this morning {Well, not quite first thing. Thankfully my alarm went off at 6 am and not the dreaded 350 am. I sure do hate those 6 am flights.} Two plane rides… and a 5 hour bus ride later… we have found all our people and arrived safely in Alta […]

A Place I Hold Especially Dear

I love to travel. I haven’t found a place I don’t like. But some places I hold especially dear. Guatemala is one of those places. I traveled their a couple of years ago and visited several communities outside of Guatemala City with Compassion International…a life-changing trip. And then got to go back with Food for […]

Let’s Wrestle Together

I posted this a month or so ago on the Idea Camp blog but I realized that I had never shared it here. I hope you will read and consider joining us September 20 and 21 {my BIRTHDAY} in Austin. It’s going to be a jam packed couple of days with rich conversations around how […]

Best Of…Bangladesh

It’s 5:10 AM on Friday (Istanbul Standard Time) and the FH Bloggers are all cozied up in the Istanbul airport, enjoying our 9 hour layover in this place that is a bridge between where we have been and where we are going. Surfing the internet, sipping on lattes, indulging in crossaints and hazelnut spread. {Did […]

Bangladeshi Savings Groups

Today was our third day to visit communities in Bangladesh. We had amazing day in another sweeper community outside of Dhaka. We visited with some families that are affected by FH’s work. Here’s a post I wrote for the Catalyst blog on the savings groups that we’ve seen impacting each community. PS – I just got […]

Bangladesh, In Pictures

We had a great day today in Bangladesh. A long, great day. We drove out to a rural Hindu community that Food for the Hungry has worked in since 2011.  Photo by Esther Havens Today the bloggers all had the opportunity to meet their sponsor kids. It was such a joy to see them connect […]

An Expedition in Faith, Hope, and Love

We started our morning tucked in the back office of a school in a community in Dhaka to spend some time together in devotions. We read 1 Corinthians 13, the “love chapter.” A passage that is read so often it is tempting to tune it out. “If I speak in the tongues of men and of […]