August 21, 2024 August 21, 2024 | Jim Cantelon | Blog And when “faithful” is applied to us it means we continually “show up for work” and stick to it regardless of how tired, bored, or discouraged we may be that day. Read More
August 7, 2024 August 7, 2024 | Jim Cantelon | Blog As a committed Christian, Tolkien was fully aware of the historic resurrection of Christ and the promise it has for all of us mortals. Read More
July 24, 2024 July 24, 2024 | Jim Cantelon | Blog “God or luck” polarity is reflective of our culture. At the risk of sounding like a theologian, I must say there’s a huge gap between God and luck. Read More
July 10, 2024 July 10, 2024 | Jim Cantelon | Blog We have something to learn from our African orphans and widows who are living every day in abject poverty. Whenever we’re with them in Zambia, Malawi, and South Africa, we find them grateful and rejoicing in their humble state. Read More
June 27, 2024 June 27, 2024 | Jim Cantelon | Blog What struck me in all three funerals was the powerful impact that men and women of faithful service to God and neighbor have had as they lived out their heavenly calling. Read More
June 19, 2024 June 19, 2024 | Jim Cantelon | Blog The rains have not come, the crops have failed, their staple food (maize) is decimated, and cholera is rampant. Read More
June 5, 2024 June 5, 2024 | Jim Cantelon | Blog I saw a commercial the other day retailing a certain investment company whose tag line was,” A life well planned”. An appeal to our need for security and control always resonates. Yet… How often “the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft a-gley”, as the famous Scottish poet Robbie Burns wrote. Our strategies […] Read More
May 23, 2024 May 23, 2024 | Jim Cantelon | Blog Fear paralyzes. We’ve got to live. And living means risk taking. Read More
May 13, 2024 May 13, 2024 | Jim Cantelon | Blog The Lord, unlike us, is “no respecter of persons”. His values transcend ours. Where we look “on the outward appearance” He “looks on the heart”. There are no socio-economic judgements from Heaven. Rather, there is divine resonance with the humble souls who love their Maker. Read More
April 24, 2024 April 24, 2024 | Jim Cantelon | Blog One would think that after 25 years of working with orphans and widows in Sub-Saharan Africa my wife Kathy and I would be somewhat acclimatized to the suffering of “the least of these”, but we’re not. Recently we visited our champion partners in South Africa, Zambia, and Malawi. We were very impressed with the […] Read More
April 10, 2024 April 10, 2024 | Jim Cantelon | Blog Were you “eclipsed” by the recent solar eclipse in North America? Millions were. The massive crowds with their eclipse glasses lined the route of the eclipse as it moved diagonally from southwest to northeast. It was a once in a lifetime phenomenon. The enthusiasm was huge. Loud cheering, like that at big sports events, ricocheted […] Read More
March 27, 2024 March 27, 2024 | Jim Cantelon | Blog WOW (Working for Orphans and Widows) is 25 years old, founded by my wife and I in January 1999. We did so in response to the devastating HIV and AIDS pandemic that swept through Sub-Saharan Africa in the last two decades of the twentieth century, creating the biggest orphan and widow crisis in history. […] Read More
