Operation Hope is our 2022 year-end campaign. As 2022 comes to an end soon, would you consider helping us meet our goal for our year-end campaign? We have set a goal to raise $75,000 and need your help! We are grateful for some generous gifts to help us get going in this campaign, as we are about to enter into 2023.
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A brief explanation about Operation Hope from Migros Aid’s founder:
I was once in a refugee camp in Africa years ago and I will never forget a conversation I had with an older man who was a refugee from Sudan.
He said to me, “A man can live 40 days without food, 4 days without water, and 4 minutes without air but no one can live 4 seconds without hope.”
Hope. Sometimes we have it and in other moments we are searching for it. Hope is about expectation or anticipating an outcome that is favorable. We hope in power, pursuits, and different kinds of possessions only to be left disappointed and restless.
There is a kind of hope that lasts and sustains. It is not based on feeling or emotion but on the truth of what God has promised us. In my understanding, lasting hope is birthed from faith and always leads to love. (1 Cor 13:13)
In the scripture, we read about this lasting hope, “…and hope does not disappoint, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.” (Romans 5:5)
Operation Hope is about enabling Migros Aid to be a conduit of hope to those in our community who have fled war, hardship, and poverty. So many are hopeless and seeking a lasting, sustaining hope. We offer and seek this kind of hope and want to share hope with others through our words and acts of love. Also, I think we discover hope for ourselves when we give of ourselves to others in service.
We tutor students to offer hope. We mentor to offer hope. We help people learn English to offer hope. We explain how things work in America to offer hope. We play soccer with a teenager to offer hope. We pray with and for others to offer hope. We serve to offer hope. We share our lives to offer hope. We give a donation to offer hope. (Mt 25:40)
Would you help us offer this kind of lasting hope into 2023? Your donation will do that. Thank you for your prayers and support.
Hopeful Because of Jesus,
Joel Vestal
Luke 18:1
