Great Beginnings
We have seen some great beginnings for EC in 2019! Our 2018 Annual Appeal more than doubled from last year’s appeal, making us wonder what could be in store for the months ahead. It didn’t take long to find out. Early in January we received a request from Pastor Kishor Senepati, one of our contacts […]
Feeding the hungry
A friend of mine has been feeding the hungry for more than a decade. Dyan Walker, also called Sr. Kateri as she belongs to a Franciscan lay order, has indirectly and directly been providing meals for hungry children in Kenya for many years. The Message A couple of weeks ago I asked Sr. Kateri how […]
Providing for Needs
The Needs Providing for needs is constant in life. We have basic needs that deal with our survival as humans: water, food, and shelter. Then there are less-essential needs, such as designer jeans, computers and dirt bikes. What you have been blessed with in life defines your perspective on your own personal sense of needs […]
Wealth and sacrifice and children
I had a discussion about children and daycare with a colleague who runs a large childcare center recently. The gist of the conversation was that she was seeing children acting out physically in daycare settings, but she was conflicted because these kids are being told that they can’t touch one another. She said she wasn’t […]
Why should I care? Why should I give?
There are so many reasons to care about what is going on in the world today. Caring is a key to living in a civilized society – it’s the part of us that makes us human. Our society is becoming increasingly self-centered and narcissistic, owing in large part to the ability for all of us […]
A new day
Here begins the use of this blog. Finally. I’m always thinking about what I should write. Today I am determined to get something down on this page. As the director of Everyone’s Child, I am often faced with making decisions about who we should support and how best to help those who lack the basic […]