There is a way we can help: Typhoon Haiyan
My heart wasn’t in this morning’s post. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy the book, I did. It’s just that over the past week I’ve […]
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Dig Deeper
Re Good News at PWS&D, News, November The November issue of the Record had a number of excellent articles, and I’m not just saying that […]
Graceview, Etobicoke, Ont.
Graceview handed $30,000 over to PWS&D’s Susan James, seen here receiving the cheque from Rev. Jan Hieminga (left) and treasurer Sue Wyse (right). The money […]
Life Despite Famine
Preparing for new refugee housing plots in Dadaab, Kenya. The day before I left for East Africa, I was watching a news story covering the […]
Spotlight – Good News at PWS&D
There is reason to celebrate at the offices of Presbyterian World Service and Development. Not only did the church’s relief and development organization receive almost […]
Harvesting Hope
In February, I visited the Soils, Food and Healthy Communities program at Ekwendeni Hospital in Malawi to do research on farmers’ perspectives on climate change. […]
Letter from Tanzania – We Are Thankful
“Kilimanjaro? Serengeti? Ngoron-goro crater?” “No,” I responded to a fellow traveller at the Dar es Salaam airport. I had been visiting Shinyanga, a less-frequented region […]
PWS&D Works to Extend Government Funding
As a five-year agreement between Presbyterian World Service and Development and the Canadian International Development Agency drew toward its close, staff at both agencies were […]
Christians Without Borders
In the October 2007 issue I wrote about my visit to Afghanistan and introduced readers to Engineer Nejabat Khan Safi. He is director for a […]
Presbyterians Rally for Quake-Stricken Haiti
As traumatized residents wandered through the ruins of Port-au-Prince after an earthquake devastated the region on Jan. 12, support for relief efforts was already pouring into Presbyterian World Service and Development.
Givings Decline
The church’s national development agency is projecting a shortfall of nearly half a million dollars in 2009, marking the first time in recent history that […]