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Dear Armon(d)

Dear Armond, This letter is long overdue, I should have written you much earlier but you’ve been on my heart ever since I visited in April. I have been wanting to tell you how proud of you and how much we love you for a long time. I know I…

Alissa Rosebrough

June 17, 2015

A Trip of a Lifetime

Two weeks ago Arise Africa had the opportunity to fly over four Zambian staff members to the USA. With the financial help of Park Cities Presbyterian Church our crew got to come over here to participate with PCPC at their Vacation Bible School. Words cannot express the generosity and love that PCPC…

Alissa Rosebrough

June 17, 2015

Africa Freedom Day – A message from Zambia and Megan

As many of my friends and family spent their time this weekend remembering all of the men and women who laid down their lives for our country, we here in Africa are celebrating African Freedom Day and celebrating those who fought for the freedom of so many countries on this…

Megan

May 25, 2015

Easter at the Arise Home

This past Easter was especially fun for me since I am usually not in Zambia to celebrate the holiday. Without really thinking about what it involved, I invited any and all staff or friends to come to the Arise Home on Easter Sunday for lunch. Before I knew it we…

Alissa Rosebrough

April 14, 2015

Learning to carry the burden better

“Carry each other’s burden, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2 For quite some time I have known that our staff needed more training on how to work with kids in the difficult situations we face in Zambia. Just as the scripture above tells…

Alissa Rosebrough

April 3, 2015

It is all about the numbers… or is it?

I was sitting in church a few weeks ago and Matt Chandler (Village church in Texas) was preaching about how we are not awesome. And for whatever reason it was this moment of me realizing about how non – profits like to boast about how awesome they are by giving…

Alissa Rosebrough

March 8, 2015

A word from Megan…

At the Arise Africa home, our goal is to raise these kids as apart of a larger community. They attend a local school as well as attend a local church. Our hearts behind having a home is to make sure that our kids experience life and not confine them to…

Megan

February 11, 2015

It’s beginning to look alot like…

CHRISTMAS FOR ZAMBIA! This month we are hitting the road and taking the Arise Africa Christmas Catalog party to Dallas, Midland, Houston, and Austin. Well to be honest with you I meant to write this blog post a few weeks ago because Dallas and Midland have already happened. Sorry if…

Alissa Rosebrough

November 30, 2014

Jesus is Better

Note: this blog post was written by one of our 2014 summer interns, Ellen Taylor I have been back from Africa for some time now and I am just now getting around to writing this post. I guess it takes that long to process through a trip like the one…

Ellen Taylor

November 6, 2014

Meeting Colliard

Just over a month ago, my family of five returned from a life changing trip to Lusaka, Zambia with Arise Africa. While I could write pages and pages about our amazing expedition, I was asked to condense my words for this post and focus solely on meeting the child we…

Jamie Kraus

September 25, 2014

Are all donations really a good thing?

Recently we have been contacted by a few organizations that want to help ship food and other items over to Zambia in an effort for us to be able to help and feed more children. Although this sounds like a home run for us, you might be surprised that although…

Alissa Rosebrough

September 18, 2014

Our Stories

Dear Armon(d)

A Trip of a Lifetime

Africa Freedom Day – A message from Zambia and Megan

Easter at the Arise Home

Learning to carry the burden better

It is all about the numbers… or is it?

A word from Megan…

It’s beginning to look alot like…

Jesus is Better

Meeting Colliard

Are all donations really a good thing?

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