Ministry

How torn I find myself so often, striving to run Abogar International Ministries in the way that most glorifies God and brings about His will to help the beautiful children…

Thanksgiving was a nice day of comfort, food, friendship, and fun for me. I had the leisure to be spending the day with a family (friends of mine) around their…

16 Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.       I Thessalonians 5:16-18I find myself with great appreciation for the holiday…

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.  ---I Corinthians 12:26While we live in a world fraught with tremendous…

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father…

“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”  Mark 9:37As I reflect on this verse, I am so…

Yesterday was a day of Mountain Top Xperiences! (I use the spelling for experiences as Xperience, because we are currently leading our second Xposure Xperience here in Guatemala!) Praise God…

Here I sit, in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. I am in the mix of horrific situations and stories and yet marvelous opportunities of hope and triumph. So many children... neglected, abused, abandoned,…

Religion that God our father accepts as pure and faultless is this, to look after orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the…

Ultimately, here’s the result I see again and again: love for orphans transforms. It transforms children as they experience love and nurture they’ve come to live without. It transforms individual Christians, as…