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Jude’s story

Matt — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:12:51 +0000

Jude’s got a great story. Surviving the Haiti earthquake is a part of it. Here, he shares his story from where he stood that tragic day, January 12, 2010.

From deep within, THANK YOU!

Matt — Wed, 12 May 2010 04:17:37 +0000

Thursday of this week, we’re having a gathering at the Convoy of Hope home office where I hope to convey thanks to friends and family for the prayers, encouragement, financial support, friendship and for being nice to us throughout this journey! With the same spirit, a quick thank you to from my recent trip to Haiti.

BTW: We’ll gather at the home office on Thursday, May 13, from 6:30-8 p.m. and you’re invited. e-tell me if you can come!

With some precious children in Haiti…we’ll return

Matt — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:12:00 +0000

I spent some time with some of Haiti’s precious children. Here we discuss potential opportunities for the interns to be a part of what Convoy of Hope is doing at this school.

Over 8 million meals distributed from Convoy of Hope’s warehouse. A video…

Matt — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:36:23 +0000

Mailchimp e-newsletters

Matt — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:36:13 +0000

Calibrate conversation with Mark Entzminger

Matt — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:30:18 +0000

I had a recent conversation with Mark Entzminger, the DYD of South Dakoda. He “called” to chat about Convoy of Hope, our interns and more. It’s to preview a bit of their Calibrate Conference this fall. Here’s the conversation…

Calibrate Conference: Matt Wilkie from Mark on Vimeo.

Read more at Mark’s blog, www.sdyce.com. The blog is full of resources and ideas…

EE-TAOW It’s True!

Matt — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:44:32 +0000

There are still millions of people who’ve never heard that Jesus is the Son of God…some have never even heard his name.

The story of Jesus, and what He means is powerful…and it doesn’t begin in the New Testament. In the Wednesday night Bible Study at my church, I recently shared this story of EE-TAOW, which means, “It’s True!” The story is about some indigenous people in Papua New Guinea, near where I spent 3 months back in ‘03. In fact, here’s a man I met on the trip…

Here’s a clip from EE-TAOW from the web…and it can be ordered on line. Good stuff…

Here are some boys I met on the same island where the video was filmed…

See it, sense it, live it

Matt — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:00:46 +0000

A Moldovan pioneer leads people from their sadness

Matt — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:58:00 +0000

Pastor Victor faced communism with courage. Nearly 20 years ago he defied the authorities in his Soviet-eera Moldovan village and held an open air presentation of the gospel. Thousands of people came. Life in his village changed forever. Here he shares the short version:

About a year later, his church became the first officially sanctioned in the Soviet Union…it’s approval came from the top. It’s now a large mother church that has planted churches across Moldova.

While the country is in great need (Eric Weiner called it the “least happy country” on earth in a Newsweek article), people like Pastor Victor are seeing to it that people learn of truth. He’s not sad. The elderly people who’ve moved from their cold in the winter/no running water homes to the retirement center his church has built are not sad. The men at the Teen Challenge weren’t sad. Still, many others are.

I’m excited to work with our team and Pastor Victor there this fall…and to see some sad people find joy.

Hoping to get water to the Yezide Kurds

Matt — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:15:00 +0000

Yezide Kurds are scattered around the northern mountains of Armenia and other places. In this village, where missionary Nick Puccini has made some great connections, they struggle to find clean water.

We’re strategizing the best response of not only getting them water but helping them filter it, which would help keep them well, etc. This is their only consistent water source, and it’s over 1 km from the village.

The area was absolutely beautiful, looking more like Ireland than what I pictured Armenia looking like…at least before it starts snowing here again. It’s hard to imagine we’re only 450 miles from Baghdad.

Here, you see Nick explaining a bit of the situation. I’ll let you know what role our interns will be able to play in helping these great people.