World Vision magazine

Just when I think I’ve heard all the amazing stories about Rwanda’s genocide, I come across another. In the current Winter magazine, Chantal Kagaba, a colleague in Rwanda, contributes a touching essay about how she forgave her mother’s murderer—and more than that, she and he became close friends.

Last week, photographer Jon Warren and I were in Michoacán, Mexico, doing a story on World Vision child sponsorship and microfinance. Microfinance involves giving small loans to people—usually in groups—to grow small businesses. ...

Our dog, P.J., has been sick with cancer. It came on suddenly. He went from a garbage-can-raiding, UPS-truck-chasing, barking-at-even-the-friendliest-of-neighbors beagle to a lethargic, puffy, tired old dog who would let the UPS man drive by without lifting a paw.

If you receive World Vision magazine, you see the culmination of a long and fruitful design process between Journey Group and World Vision’s magazine staff.

This is it! Out of many great options by Jon Warren, the photo of this adorable Ethiopian girl with the shy smile, 7-year-old Chaltu Dechasa, is our final choice.

A few months after we took Max Lucado to Ethiopia, photographer Jon Warren and I flew to Burundi to do a story on the beginning of World Vision sponsorship there. Burundi has been hammered by hatred. Two people groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis, have battered one another for decades. ...

In my job for World Vision, I sometimes plan trips for people, particularly Rich Stearns, World Vision U.S.president. We’ve traveled to Zambia, Malawi, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina, and most recently to Ethiopia, with Max Lucado. ...

Getting Max Lucado from Point A to Point B in Ethiopia was a challenge. Max is “people bait.” Everyone wants to talk to him and tell him their stories. I saw men and women who barely spoke English stopping Max to introduce themselves.

Back in December 2008, we’d started planning Max’s trip to Ethiopia. He wanted to write a book based on Acts. He wanted to find out how World Vision worked. We decided to take him to a place where World Vision has child sponsorship and where one of Jesus’ disciples might have traveled. ...

A few weeks ago, before the weather turned and before I’d put away my summer clothes, there it was: Costco’s Christmas section. Reflexively, I started to stress; the first signs of Christmas have that effect on me. ...

Laura Reinhardt, a frequent magazine contributor, is in American Samoa with a team assessing World Vision’s relief response to the earthquake and tsunami.

Laura Reinhardt, a frequent magazine contributor, is in American Samoa with a team assessing World Vision’s relief response to the earthquake and tsunami.

Laura Reinhardt, a frequent magazine contributor, is in American Samoa with a team assessing World Vision’s relief response to the earthquake and tsunami.