Tag: compassion

World Refugee Day: A Story to Celebrate

June 20, 2016

25 years ago, Joseph Kebbie was one of the thousands of Liberians who fled to Guinea at the start of the civil war. This war would go on to claim the lives of one out of every 17 people in Liberia. Of the survivors, nearly a million people would seek refuge in the surrounding countries—a quarter of a […]

Hands of Honor: Where Everyone Learns Your Name

February 8, 2016

This article was originally published on the Alliance website. According to the International Labour Organization, sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest incidence of child labor (59 million—more than 21 percent of the region’s children). In West Africa hard manual labor is part of daily life. Most city families hire a domestic worker, often a young girl […]

The CAMA Man

November 16, 2015

Today’s post is written by Adriaan Overbeeke. While teaching a marriage seminar at Living Waters Church in Poipet, Cambodia, I was introduced to a distinguished older Cambodian man, Mr. Sary, referred to as the “CAMA man.” Back in 1979, Mr. Sary had been part of the Khmer Rouge—a political party that systematically killed thousands of Cambodians […]

Christ-Centered Compassion

November 9, 2015

Today’s post is written by Adriaan Overbeeke. Adriaan serves as the chairman of the CAMA Board. Compassion Is in Our DNA CAMA came into existence in 1972 out of a compassionate response to the plight of refugees fleeing Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia at the close of the Vietnam War. Moved by compassion, the men and woman […]

Reclaiming Hospitality

October 26, 2015

Today’s post is written by Dave Manske, director for Church Multiplication in the North Central District of The Alliance. Hospitality isn’t exclusive to Christians or Americans. My memory of a generous reception in a small Filipino village is still a humbling one—the charity extended by my language teacher, a practicing spiritist, is still a convicting […]