Billy Scanlan has been traveling in Southeast Asia, recording what he sees in photos and words. For more of Billy’s work, visit his blog A Context for Hope. With a little love and care, even the darkest corners of the world can become spectacles of hope. Svey Pak, Cambodia, was one of those dark corners,  Read more »

When Sarah Freeman called to tell her friend Stephen Christian about her mission trip to Haiti, she was just asking for prayer.

Twenty-four hours later, Christian, who is the lead singer of the rock band Anberlin, called Freeman back to let her know he was going too, and bringing friends along with him.

The Body Shop has come out with a line of products to help fund the fight against sex trafficking. 100% of the proceeds from their special hand cream and canvas bags will go to Somaly Mam and ECPAT, two organizations that are working to end the sex slave trade. Rarely do big businesses donate the  Read more »

“Calcutta eats missionaries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner,” the missionary from Chenai warned us. Huddled together in the dark basement of a ministry building in San Francisco, our team of 12 women and two men received our Calcutta briefing from a veteran of over 25 years in India. He told us of Koli, the goddess  Read more »

Millions of people pass through Howrah train station in Kolkota, India, but there is an invisible life that few travelers actually see. Around 200 orphaned children live at the train station, huffing glue to suppress their appetites and living a violent, tragic, almost animalistic lifestyle. Most of the kids have no idea how they even  Read more »

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: 
to loose the chains of injustice
 and untie the cords of the yoke, 
to set the oppressed free 
and break every yoke?
 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
 and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
 and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
”

Watch this video of Peggy Callahan, the co-founder and executive producer of Free the Slaves, as she talks about gathering photos and stories about modern day slavery, and why former slaves risk their personal safety and comfort to talk about their experiences.

This is the second story in a series about Pattaya, Thailand. Betsi Clark travelled to Thailand with Lauren Nelson, Phil Porter and Sarah Paulk, and found much more than she bargained for on the sometimes scintillating, sometimes sad, always interesting streets of Pattaya.

This is the first story in a series about Pattaya, Thailand, one of the major prostitution cities in the world. Join a group of visitors, both first-time and seasoned, as they give their impressions of this city that is part paradise, part tragedy. The neon green chairs are the first thing you notice when you  Read more »

Carrie Guy traveled to Thailand hoping to meet the needs of the Karen people. What she found is that God is already working there, and we here in the US need the Karen people just as much as they need us.