by April Jurgensen | Jan 2, 2018 | Prayer
Happy New Year!As we look forward to 2018, we are praying that, together, we can offer hope to more children, support more caregivers, and engage more Christians in caring for orphans than ever before.The children of House of Joy have sent you New Year’s greetings,...
by April Jurgensen | Oct 9, 2017 | Prayer
Over the last several weeks, we’ve talked about The Lord’s Prayer from an orphan’s perspective. We’ve dissected the phrases and considered the implications. Today, I’d like to re-write the prayer as I imagine it being spoken from one of the children you serve through...
by April Jurgensen | Sep 25, 2017 | Prayer
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil It was during the early days of The Boaz Project. I found myself in a Russian preschool orphanage, conversing with staff and learning all I could. As we were wading through a sea of toddlers to head toward the...
by April Jurgensen | Sep 18, 2017 | Orphan Care Issues, Prayer
As I prepared for our second VBS in a Russian orphanage, selecting a curriculum was a bigger challenge than I expected. I knew it would have to work cross-culturally, avoiding the references many of our themed curricula have to things like newspaper carriers or...
by April Jurgensen | Sep 11, 2017 | Orphan Care Issues, Prayer
** If you’re looking for “Your Measure of Forgiveness, please click here** Give us today our daily bread- Matt. 6:11 (NIV) I haven’t always appreciated this line in The Lord’s Prayer the way I do today. I mean, I’ve understood since childhood that to ask...
by April Jurgensen | Jul 31, 2017 | Orphan Care Issues, Prayer
For me, there’s no more difficult concept to discuss with an orphan than that of God’s will. Imagine sitting with Nikita. He remembers vividly the night his family’s apartment caught fire. The smell of smoke was already thick when his father scooped him up into his...
by April Jurgensen | Jul 5, 2017 | Orphan Care Issues, Prayer
Are you a list maker? I am. I’m one of those weirdos who gets a charge out of making a to-do list for the day and triumphantly striking items off as they’re completed. Sometimes, mid-morning, I’ll even write “shower” on the list and cross it out as something I’ve...
by April Jurgensen | Jun 15, 2017 | Orphan Care Issues, Prayer
What was the first prayer you ever prayed? Perhaps it was a prayer of salvation when you first submitted your heart to Christ. Or maybe it was a prayer uttered in desperation to a God you weren’t even certain could answer. Having grown up in a Christian home, I was...
