Jesse Rivers

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9 (ESV) Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12…

"I have a dream..." These words (and the full speech) are among some of the most powerfully delivered and most frequently remembered of speeches given in the last 150 years.…

Hey Abogar friends, family, and supporters! This is my first chance to share thoughts and words with you as a newer teammate on this mission of loving kiddos through Abogar's…

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." --T. S. Eliot "Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others…

Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children, and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant offering…

Dear Friend of Abogar, With every step taken to grow Abogar as an organization that serves the vulnerable children and youth of Latin America, we have YOU and many others to…

I realize that we are already finishing out the first quarter of 2019, and it is quite late to be publishing this, but due to illness and busyness of life…

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth,so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than…

7 years ago today, I, Jesse Rivers, sat on the playground of a children's home in Mexico, and spent time loving on precious little Angela. As you can see in…

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with…