Meet Janessa!

This summer we welcome a new intern to the team, Janessa Colburn. Janessa is attending Cedarville University in Ohio and joins Loom as a Communications Intern. Get to know Janessa’s story and her passion for supporting local innovators!    Loom: Tell us about yourself and the journey that led you here. What passions and experiences…

A Prayer of Oscar Romero

It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying…

Recent CCS Stories

Social Innovators Jane Brenda, Sypora, and Carolyn all ran Celebrating Children Seminars this past quarter in Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya. Hear some of the impact their training made, as participants share what they learned!     “I am a mother with grown up children. I have been hating my daughter in law and my grandchildren. But…

A Historic Moment

Several weeks ago, we received a message from Sypora, Loom’s Early Childhood Education Service Coordinator. She had traveled to Pokot, Kenya to teach a Celebrating Children Seminar with Jordan, another Social Innovator. “Pokot is dry, dusty, remote, [and] hot but God’s people live here,” Sypora wrote. “I had a ministry with girls on Tuesday and…

A Vision for Family Flourishing

Let us walk you through a vision of community thriving springing up across East and Southern Africa. This vision centers around local Family Resource Centers: a place where services, developmental opportunities, and tools for health and wellbeing all converge around the needs of the most vulnerable.  Read as Loom Staff Member Kay Morales envisions what…