Regional coordinator Marty Shoup is part of our interview team in Ukraine, below she shares a little about their trip so far and a few of the kids they have met! We’re about halfway through the Ukraine interview trip, and … Continued
An update from Stephanie Norman who is currently in Latvia interviewing children for summer hosting! Stacey asked me Monday night if I could share about the trip and give her some blog material. I had to tell her that I … Continued
The Stonick family in California is hosting Nastya from Ukraine. When I asked host mom Stephanie if she’d blog about Christmas with Nastya she replied that she felt she was being led to write about how her husband’s love had … Continued
This could be REALLY powerful if everyone gets involved! The end result will be a video that NHFC creates using your photos. All these photos of messages of HOPE will be pulled together into a video and it could be … Continued
One of our winter host families shared a story with us yesterday and we just had to share it here as well! The Bohannon family in Georgia is hosting a teenage boy named Igor from Ukraine. Here’s their story: Igor is … Continued
Our 21st hosting season is now underway and already memories are being made! Even though it’s only been a few days choosing a favorite memory proved challenging for many of our host families, luckily they managed to narrow it down … Continued
Among the New Horizons staff, there is a well known poem about an old man who found a boy throwing washed up starfish back into the ocean. He continuously bends down to pick up another starfish one at a time … Continued
116. One hundred sixteen. Just think about that number for a minute. Think about ‘Hundreds Day’ when elementary school students need to collect 100 of one item to bring to school that day. To celebrate the 100th day of school… … Continued
This is a guest blog post by veteran host mom and Western/Central Great Lakes area Regional Coordinator, Marty Shoup. One of the “hang-ups” people have about orphan hosting is that they don’t think they can LOVE one of these kids. … Continued
Everyone who knows me tends to associate me with Christmas. I get random texts that usually go something like this… “I saw a blow up snowman at Lowes today and thought of you.” Or “I found Christmas cookie cutters at … Continued
