What is Hope for the Nations?
In 2006, as Hope House celebrated 20 years of fruitfulness, the vision to spread hope grew wider. Just since 2006, many opportunities opened for Hope House staff to travel to other nations. Hope House sent out or supported workers to the Philippines, Korea, Thailand, Ecuador, Germany, Costa Rica, Nigeria, Uganda, and China. Hope House began more international teaming, sharing it's resources, publications, model, and workers where needs cried out and doors opened. While Hope House publications have long gone out globally, the focus on missions is a new priority.
Even in Maine, where Hope House maintains it's headquarters and continues it's ministry to needy families, the diversity of people groups has recently grown tremendously. The local work hosts frequent outreaches to African refugees, who now make up almost 20% of the Lewiston population, where the majority of the local work is based.
Hope Spreads to Asia
An example of the fruit of Hope for the Nations is the story of "Hope House Happy Mom & Baby Center" in Seoul, Korea. It opened in the spring of 2008 following Bruce & Jan Willson's training seminar they presented to workers with Pro-Life Korea. The center is the first and only pregnancy center in Korea, a nation with a high abortion rate, and with little help for single parents and struggling families.In 2008, Noah & Bora Willson hosted Bruce & Jan, and Sarah Willson on a tour throughout Northeast China, sharing a message of hope in a nation with a one-child policy, governmental restrictions on religion, and where a devastating earthquake had just claimed many lives. Heartwarming response to their concerts of hope stirred them to plan to go back.
The World Needs Hope
According to some studies, 98% of pro-life resources stay in the U.S., where only 3% of the world's abortions take place. And abuse to women and children is much higher in other parts of the world than in the U.S. While Hope House maintains it's local work and also reaches out nationally, the wider world's needs have reached our ears. We have heard and seen too much to ignore. We dare not hoard the hope we have been given...it is after all, HOPE FOR THE NATIONS, "that ALL the people of the earth might know" (Joshua 4:24). The world so needs "a future and a hope" (Jer. 29:11).
To support Hope for the Nations upcoming outreaches, contact:Bruce Willson, Director of Hope House and Hope for the Nations at,
Hope House163 Elm St.Mechanic Falls, ME 04256, 207-345-3027hopehouse17@gmail.com
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