by Bob Mendonsa | Jul 11, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Steve Sisler, Stories of Hope
-By Steve Sisler, Director Maendeleo Initiative What is courage? Sometimes a word just can’t capture the essence of the reality. Courage is the choice and willingness to confront emotional agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. I’m sharing a...
by Bob Mendonsa | May 22, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Note from Bob, Redemptive Viewpoints, Stories of Hope
We may never know her reason for leaving. Did her mother run in fear, in desperation, or simply out of selfishness? In the end, it doesn’t matter anymore. Found crying, hungry, and alone in a vacant rental in Naivasha, the 6-week-old beauty needed a home and a name....
by Bob Mendonsa | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Note from Bob, Stories of Hope
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! – 1 John 3:1a After 10 weeks away from them, it felt like taking a bath in grace just to see our Naomi’s Village kids for a few minutes on our laptop screen. The...
by Bob Mendonsa | Sep 14, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Note from Bob, Redemptive Viewpoints, Stories of Hope
Each of us is born with 100 billion relatively unconnected brain cells, all that we will ever possess. These separate during fetal development into different domains in the brain, areas that later specialize for receiving inputs from our 5 senses, controlling...
by Bob Mendonsa | Aug 6, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Redemptive Viewpoints, Stories of Hope
If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 4:11 The birds sent up a chorus of twittering, the only noise that broke the silence of the morning other than the sound of...
by Bob Mendonsa | Dec 21, 2018 | Blog, Bob and Julie Mendonsa, Featured, Stories of Hope
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” -G.K. Chesterton We wage daily battles in the Great Rift Valley against two formidable barriers to lasting change – generational poverty and widespread...
