LAHASH BLOG
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Ten travelers serving at our partnerships this Spring
It's a full season of travel for the Lahash team right now. Yesterday I spent a couple hours at the Portland airport saying goodbye to Jim Anderson and Dave - both ...
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Rice & Beans Month coming up…
Every year our community joins together in a unique event called Rice & Beans Month. This month focuses on the following three ideas: Solidarity - standing with brothers and sisters in East Africa with limited resources and inadequate nutrition Simplicity - simplifying our diets and forgoing wasteful consumption Sharing - giving away the savings from ...
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Shared Hope Video
Casey just completed our new video sharing some of the hope and pain - and also gratitude from our international team this past year. Thanks for being a part of our journey friends.
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13 Days and Counting
On January 30, Will Campbell will board a plane and head to East Africa for a year, where he’ll spend time with Lahash partners and use his photography skill to connect with kids in the sponsorship program and document their stories. What would you need to cross off your list if you were leaving your home for a year? Will plans to spend these final weeks seeing movies ...
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Merry Christmas from the Portland Team!
Thanks to all of you for partnering with us in our advocacy and care for our brothers and sisters in East Africa this past year. We hope you and your friends and family have a very Merry Christmas! :-)
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Share Gifts of Life this Christmas
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas here at our office in Portland. We have a nice little Christmas tree, some lights, and a couple poinsettias cheering up our office! At our partnerships in East Africa, the vulnerable kids we love could use your involvement. Our team has ...
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How will you mark World AIDS day?
The mud home was nearly empty of possessions. A wooden bed was adorned with an ancient brown mattress. A couple years ago I found myself in a Tanzanian slum visiting the family of a courageous young boy named Eliya. Eliya likes soccer and enjoys going to school. A massive smile regularly breaks across his face. ...
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Travel Team observes the dynamic Tanzanian outreach
Fall Travel Update 4 - Dodoma, Tanzania Our team finished up our fall travels with a visit to our partners in Tanzania. It's amazing to see the work that God is doing among the people of this church and through the partnership of all of you around the world. Our partners in Tanzania care for 97 children, of which approximately 20 are still in need of sponsorship through Lahash. If you'd like to sponsor one of ...
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Whispered Prayer book launch honors Susan Tabia’s ministry
Fall Travel Update 3 - From Kampala, Uganda Our Fall Travel Team to Uganda had one main purpose - to launch Lyla Peterson's book about our partner Susan Tabia. After navigating over 16 hours of the Ugandan and Sudanese roads, we made it safely across the border into Sudan. For most of the ...
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Travel Team Spends Time with Kampala Kids
Fall Travel Update 2 – From Amazing Grace Orphanage, Uganda It's a quiet and peaceful evening here in northern Uganda. I'm typing by kerosene lamp with a couple of mosquitos nibbling on my toes. I have a lot of great stories to share, but I'll start this post with our first experiences in Kampala, Uganda. Lyla and Edwin and I spent the first bit of time in the capital city of Uganda. We stayed at Mama Susan Tabia's ...
