Category Bright Hope Blog & Stories

Lots of excitement and a little apprehension. Know the feeling? That was me as I set off for Haiti a few weeks ago. Thank God for a mom gracious enough to drive me to O’Hare airport at two-something in the morning for a 5:15 a.m. flight.

You might have noticed a change in our tagline at Bright Hope recently. On January 1 we started using the phrase, “Helping those earning less than $2 a day,” as a measure for who we are serving.

Hi there. Are you new around here? Maybe you randomly clicked and page-hopped your way to a Facebook post of ours, saw a cool photo on Instagram, or landed on our website from Google. Hopefully, you were intrigued by what…

Hi there. Are you new around here? Maybe you randomly clicked and page-hopped your way to a Facebook post of ours, saw a cool photo on Instagram, or landed on our website from Google.

I’m guessing that you and I aren’t all that different from each other. Sure, the details of our life may be different – I have three kids, a part-time job, and live in a place where it is cold for…

During the holidays, it is relatively easy to look to the needs and wants of others, and to set our own preferences aside.

It’s not what I expected to see when I visited a widow’s home in rural Uganda and learned about how this water tank worked.