The StoryField
LIFE is complex, and the frustrating issues never seem to stop. BUSINESS is hard, with no easy answers and difficult progress. Living a life of FAITH can feel complicated, leaving you feeling uninspired and lonely when your relationship with God feels broken. It’s discouraging when MOVEMENT in your life, business, or faith has stopped.
This podcast is here to change that by focusing on the incredible power of stories. Listening to the experiences of others can provide positive, encouraging, and inspiring insights. Hearing how ordinary people navigate similar challenges can help you find solutions and feel less alone. Be inspired by real-life stories that reignite your passion for life and business. Take a step forward and spark your faith by connecting with the journeys of others.
The StoryField
The StoryField #70: The One with Echo VanderWal and the Unbelievable Growth from Compassion
Echo VanderWal joined the StoryField from Eswatini, the African country formerly known as Swaziland.
Echo and her husband Harry moved to Eswatini in the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 2005 the results of which left 20% of the entire country’s population orphaned. The country had the highest infection rate of HIV of anywhere.
They moved with 4-year-old triplets and a 1-year old daughter.
20 years later, we caught up with Echo and asked her about the origin story of The Luke Commission – www.lukecommission.org – which started with 8 local team members but now as a staff of 700 people; 45 departments; and operate out of the location called the Miracle Campus.
The Luke Commission provides 1/3 of the entire country’s population with free, compassionate, patient-centered health care.
If you need a faith re-charge then you must listen to this incredible interview and learn how God showed Echo and Harry how to scale a nonprofit with compassion and how faithful God has been at every “blind step of faith” as Echo says.
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