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Oct 5 2012

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October Learning Update

Each month, HOPE’s human resources team puts together learning updates for staff members’ professional development. This month’s update focused on development and fundraising. We hope you find these resources useful too!

Development

  • Donors = Checkbooks with Mouths, by Chris Horst, HOPE’s director of development
    In this blog post, Chris shares the importance of building relationships in fundraising.
  • Creating Enchantment, Guy Kawasaki
    In this 62-minute Stanford talk, Guy shares secrets to enchanting others and developing influence.

Leadership

  • Flawless Execution, by Mark Miller
    In this blog post, Mark offers seven methodical ways for leaders to help their team pursue flawless execution.
  • 10 Ways I Want to Lead, by Mark Meyer
    Pick one or two items to add to your leadership toolkit.

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HOPE Intl

Aug 30 2012

HOPE Intl

 Staff / Travels Working with the poor

HOPE Congo: A Family at Heart

HOPE Congo had its annual spiritual retreat June 27-29 at Vuela, a Catholic retreat center just outside of Brazzaville. It was a great place to get away from the city noise and see trees, flowers, and grass. All 37 of us piled into a bus and the HOPE truck and arrived at Vuela Friday morning. The office was split into three teams: the green, red, and yellow teams. Each morning we had a time of praise and worship led by one of the teams, and three office staff spoke throughout the weekend. This weekend was a great time for me and Nate to spend quality time with the staff.

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HOPE Intl

Aug 10 2012

By HOPE Intl

 Staff / Travels Working with the poor
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I Am Well If You Are Also

Some languages have honorifics reserved for elders. Others have local slang dialects tossed around and worn with pride in certain neighborhoods. While they may be spoken by people of totally different ages, locales, and cultures, each string of words shares solidarity in what it represents. The individual phrases may have very different meanings, but underlying each of these thoughts is a unique history and heritage. The words may project values of reciprocity & respect dating back to Confucius. Others can evoke eras and events long forgotten, only preserved in speech not stone.

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HOPE Intl

Aug 9 2012

HOPE Intl

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Stories Within

I stand outside the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre looking out over the beautiful city of Kigali, Rwanda, where a progressing, strikingly beautiful city is growing. People are warm and friendly. There is a strong ethic to move forward together for positive growth. Compared to many places, things seem put together, peaceful, hopeful, happy.

Standing there outside the memorial, I am reminded that people carry stories within them that are not expressly apparent on the outside. Every person’s story is different. Some have found forgiveness, some still cannot move past the pain, some have found incredible healing.

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HOPE Intl

Aug 6 2012

HOPE Intl

 Spiritual Integration Staff / Travels Working with the poor
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A Beautiful Day in Rwanda: Visiting a Savings Group

Muraho! It’s a lovely sunny day in Rwanda. I invite you to journey with me to a savings group meeting in the hills of Byumba, Rwanda.

VereneFirst, we hop in a truck with Verene, the field coordinator for the Byumba diocese (each region has a Savings and Credit Association field coordinator chosen by the Anglican Church); Musoni, the driver; Garrett, the HOPE microenterprise technical advisor who is experiencing the second week of his two-year stay in Rwanda; and Matthew Rohrs, the HOPE director of spiritual integration. As we make the two-hour drive from Kigali to Byumba, you may be as awed as I am at the beauty of this country known as the land of a thousand hills. The pictures that we bring home just don’t do the scenery justice!

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HOPE Intl

Aug 2 2012

HOPE Intl

 Spiritual Integration Staff / Travels Working with the poor

Beauty from Ashes

I used to look out at grassy hillsides where controlled fires had left the land black and smoldering and think, “Can beauty really come from these ashes?” “Can life really emerge from the scorched earth and be even richer and stronger than ever?” I find myself asking the Lord some of these same questions as I look at the world around us. Do I truly, deeply trust Him to transform lives—to bring beauty out of brokenness? Transformation is easy to talk about. But when it is up close and personal, when the lives of those around me depend on it, do I really believe it? When faced with real brokenness in my life, in the lives of those around me, and in the lives of those we serve around the world, I find myself asking, “Do I truly believe that God is in the business of deep transformation here and now?”

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