by April Jurgensen | Apr 15, 2019 | Orphan Care Issues, Updates
In Rome, prior to 374 A.D. there was a practice that existed of leaving children on the street if they were malformed, female, or an inconvenience. It was the early church who was known for taking these children off the street and bringing them into their own homeIt...
by April Jurgensen | Mar 25, 2019 | Core Values
“God calls His children to care for orphans.”– James 1:27, Is. 1:17As my vehicle pulled up to the facility, I noticed the Soviet structure sagged from wear and almost boasted of its distinct odor. I braced myself for what I may see on this first visit to this...
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 | 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...
