Stories

This year, the world approaches Lent—the six week season between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday—with a heightened sense of sorrow and fear. Our world is on fire—again. Instead of COVID-19, it’s war, inflation, mass hunger, unemployment, and political instability. If ever we needed to turn our eyes to Jesus and prepare our hearts to celebrate and affirm his resurrection power, it’s now! If ever we needed to long for his return, it’s today.

How are you doing—really doing?

Now we are in the Advent season!

It all started with a sweet idea.

One of the best ways to expand our horizons is to get inside the mind and experiences of other cultures through their own storytelling. This list takes us on a tour of the Middle East, Africa, Central America, and right back home to Canada

When Ali and David, a young couple with two daughters under two, received an early inheritance from his grandparents, they began thinking about the legacy they wanted to leave. Ali had seen generosity exemplified in the lives of her family and in-laws in many forms—like welcoming homes and ice cream cones—and she realized there is no better time than the present to create habits of generosity.

We’ve Read The Stats:

When you think of compost, what comes to mind? A small bin you keep under your sink that still smells like yesterday’s lunch (or maybe even last week’s dinner)? Or, if you read the recent CBC article on vermicomposting, perhaps a handful of wriggling worms?

One of our favourite things about Easter Sunday is the table feast.

After 13 years with Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada, and over five years serving as our President and CEO, Shawn Plummer is saying farewell.

I enjoy the Christmas season. Such a wonderful time to be with family and friends, sing Christmas carols, watch your favourite Christmas movies, and eat lots of delicious food. But ultimately Christmas is about the birth of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the King.

Clean water and sanitation is the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 6, so it must be important, but what is sanitation? It's more than just the city sewage plant - it's in your home, too!

Can you paint? Bake? Fix cars? Whatever your talent, you can use it to fundraise for things you really care about. Pollyanne raises money for water.

No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu focuses on events following the end of Apartheid during and surrounding the initial years (1995 to 1998) of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission—the first of its kind. President Nelson Mandela named Former Archbishop Desmond Tutu the commission’s Chairperson

Did you know that more than 800 million people in the world don’t get enough to eat each day? That’s a shocking number. What’s even more shocking is that the world actually produces enough food to nourish each and every one of those children, women, and men.

What makes Canada so awesome? Is it our peace-loving nature, outstanding food, or crazy generous hearts? Yes, and 19 more reasons!

This Earth Day, I've been thinking a lot about Guatemala's Indigenous women and girls– not only about the adverse effect climate change has on their lives, but also the potential they have to transform their communities to be resilient to those effects.

Good mental health is critical to the fight to end poverty - both here, and abroad! Elaine learned the hard way, but God was faithful to lift her up.