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From RAGS to WISHES

Sometimes I forget how much God knows about us. Psalms 139 says He has searched us and known us. He knows when we sit down and when we rise up, he even discerns our thoughts from afar. It isn’t surprising to Him that I don’t enjoy ice cream as much…

Faith Gregg

November 22, 2016

Maggie

This past spring Arise Africa invited some American counselors and friends to come over and help train our staff on all types of issues. One afternoon we decided to take our friends into one of the compounds and visit a school we work in. They happily agreed and piled in…

Alissa Rosebrough

October 28, 2016

Arise Home Fun Interviews

This blog post was written by our intern in Zambia, Morgan Casteel. A huge blessing in Arise Africa are our children in full time care. The Arise Homes began when we saw that some of the children in the schools we worked with needed more help than we could provide…

Morgan Casteel

October 5, 2016

Decisions and Responsibility

This blog is a class paper written by Arise Africa summer mission tripper, Carson Reichert, age 13. “Do the decisions you make carry with them the responsibility for your choices” “He says his mom and dad ran away from them, they just left them on the side of the road…

Carson Reichert

October 4, 2016

Taonga School Update

This blog post was written by Morgan, who is an intern with Arise Africa living in Zambia We are very excited about our newest partnership with Taonga school. This school began when Abi, a teacher from the UK, came to stay with the MacDonald family for one year. The MacDonalds…

Morgan

September 13, 2016

Opening of Arise Christian School

As most of you know, Arise purchased some land in Ngombe Compound in April of this year. The goal is to be build our own school on the property where students from Grace School will attend. On the property is a house with 8 rooms and a kitchen. Until we…

Morgan

September 5, 2016

The Trip of a Lifetime

This blog post was written by Joseph Phiri who is on a full ride scholarship with Arise Africa to Africa University in Zimbabwe. On August 9th I started a trip of a lifetime to head to university for the first time ever through Arise Africa. I was awarded the full…

Joseph Phiri

August 22, 2016

My Weekend of Independence

This blog post was written by Morgan Casteel, an intern with Arise Africa in Zambia. This weekend I was by myself as the rest of our staff headed to the Lower Zambezi for some rest. I was excited and a bit nervous to be all alone! On Friday I…

Morgan Casteel

August 22, 2016

A Week with the Messicks

Last week, we had the privilege of enjoying the company of and serving alongside our dear friends, the Messicks. This is the Messicks second trip to Zambia. They came this August because students are off for break all month and they wanted to come invest in our kids in the…

Morgan

August 18, 2016

Internship Reflections

This post was written by Andy, one of our 2016 interns. Hey yall! Guess who’s back, back again. Andy’s back, tell a friend. I hope you got my Eminem reference or that would just be really embarrassing! I got back to America about a week ago now and it’s pretty…

Andy Gonzalez

August 16, 2016

Investing in People

This Post was written by Megan Bloemker, a Zambia country director. The definition of investing is the act of committing money or capital to an endeavor with the expectation of obtaining an additional income or profit. Living in Zambia, I look at investment in a totally different way…I look…

Megan Bloemker

August 8, 2016

Our Stories

From RAGS to WISHES

Maggie

Arise Home Fun Interviews

Decisions and Responsibility

Taonga School Update

Opening of Arise Christian School

The Trip of a Lifetime

My Weekend of Independence

A Week with the Messicks

Internship Reflections

Investing in People

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Our Stories

From RAGS to WISHES

Maggie

Arise Home Fun Interviews

Decisions and Responsibility

Taonga School Update

Opening of Arise Christian School

The Trip of a Lifetime

My Weekend of Independence

A Week with the Messicks

Internship Reflections

Investing in People

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