Stories of Hope & Help

Daniel Jones describes the planning for a hard to reach area in Bolivia as the team prepares for the trip. We think you will enjoy listening to the way a team comes together. To learn more, visit www.operationrenewedhope.org  

This episode was recorded in June 2024 at the ORH Boot Camp. The teens tell us what they have learned about themselves as they prepare to join an ORH medical mission team headed for British Guyana.

On the last day of the Operation Renewed Hope Boot Camp, two groups of team members take on an orienteering challenge concluded by a helicopter evacuation. In this interview, Stephen Powers gives us the details behind these interesting challenges.  

Have you ever thought about what it would be like to join a medical mission team to travel to a distant part of the world? In this episode, Kandis and Heather (two nurses who travel with ORH) describe our medical mission trips. To learn more about our current plans for upcoming mission trips, please visit the Operation Renewed Hope website    To learn about our most current efforts, click here: ht...

Dr. Jan Milton brings us up to date on the work of Operation Renewed Hope to send relief supplies to gospel-preaching churches in Myanmar. This report is being issued two weeks after the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake. Ast you will hear in this podcast, there have been many serious aftershocks. One of the relief teams experienced a magnitude 4.7 earthquake, even as they were delivering relie...

During the ORH Boot Camp, we asked some of the teens and staff what they were learning and how their training would be used on the mission field during upcoming medical mission trips.

On March 28, 2025, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Myanmar. At this writing, more than 3100 people are known to be dead with many more missing. Undoubtedly, hundreds are trapped beneath the rubble of the widespread devastation. This terrible tragedy is compounded by the reality that Myanmar has suffered through a civil war since 2021. In this interview, Jan Milton and Gordon Dickson discuss the...

Some of the Operation Renewed Hope medical mission trips involve traveling by boat or canoe. So it is essential for our team members to be trained in water safety. In this episode, Jan Milton describes how the Boot Camp staff trains teens to travel in jungle regions and distant coastlands. This travel is sometimes hundreds of miles from civilization, so the teens need to know how to take care of t...

An interview with Samuel at the Operation Renewed Hope Boot Camp. How would you preparte a group of American teenagers to serve the Lord in a remote village halfway around the world? For more information on this episode, please click here: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Carriacou--2024-Boot-Camp.html?soid=1134023763267&aid=YG_vHh4vHqg    

In this interview at the Operation Renewed Hope Boot Camp, Stephen Powers explains how he teaches the teens to find their way through remote regions where the roads are few. As the teens follow his instructions, they were able to build stretchers, read a map and compass and work together to accomplish the challenging tasks. To learn more about ORH, click here: https://www.operationrenewedhope.org/...

In this podcast, we learn how a church in Los Angeles is ministering to the first responders who have endured so much during the recent wildfires. In this interview with Jan Milton, we also learn more about the relief efforts in North Carolina and after the flooding in Kentucky.   For more about these efforts, please go to https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Kentucky--Cape-Verde--and-Los-Angeles.h...

In this episode, Jan Milton tells us how gospel-preaching churches are helping those who have been devastated by the recent wildfires around Los Angeles. For more about these efforts, please go to https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Kentucky--Cape-Verde--and-Los-Angeles.html?soid=1134023763267&aid=jFvt0zWL4EY   Here is an excerpt from that update: "The pictures to the left are from the Pasadena ar...

In this episode, Jan Milton gives us his eyewitness account of the disaster created by the recent wildfires.  For more information on this podcast, please click here: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Kentucky--Cape-Verde--and-Los-Angeles.html?soid=1134023763267&aid=jFvt0zWL4EY Here is an excerpt from that update: Pastor Philip Jones was able to show ORH workers the extent of the fire damage. Hi...

In this podcast, we interview Daniel Jones to learn how he began to participate in ORH medical mission trips. He now serves as the president and CEO of Operation Renewed Hope.

Have you ever wondered how the Lord might use your skills to help a mission team? In this podcast, we discuss that with Mr. Ken Higgins. And his answers will encourage you to take the next step.   To learn more about an upcoming ORH Boot Camp, please click here: https://www.operationrenewedhope.org/event-details/orh-boot-camp  

Here is a discussion we recorded during an Operation Renewed Hope Boot Camp, Question: How does ORH place medical mission teams in some of the most remote regions of the world? For instance, one of our teams recently traveled to Uganda to provide medical services near the Sudanese border. What kind of planning goes into a trip like that? How could you join such a team in the future?   For more inf...

In this episode of Stories of Hope and Help, Jan Milton tells us about the way ORH is partnering with churches to help first responders. Some of those first responders helped hundreds of others, but their own homes were destroyed. We want to enable those who care for others to encourage them for the days ahead.  ORH is partnering with churches in the regions around Los Angeles, California devastat...

To learn more about the Operation Renewed Hope Boot Camp, please visit www.operationrenewedhope.org .  

In this episode, we introduce the first in a series of podcasts about the  Operation Renewed Hope Boot Camp. These are designed to help teens serve on medical mission trips around the world. To learn more, please go to learn more please click here: https://www.operationrenewedhope.org/event-details/orh-boot-camp If you would like to learn more, please send us a note through this link: https://www....

For more information on this episode, please click here: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Joy-in-serving-others-.html?soid=1134023763267&aid=5wnSX5hP78k ORH is thankful for those who give the Gospel while attempting to lift people out of the sadness of losing all material goods. They have lost objects and media that attach them to many family memories. At the time of such great loss the church...

You are talking to the mayor of a remote fishing village on the Panama Canal. You have one medical person with you to care for your team. Yet he asks you to return to help his people who need a whole team of doctors, nurses and dentists to provide medical and dental care. What would you do? How would you face the unknown by faith? In this episode, we learn more about how Operation Renewed Hope beg...

We are interrupting our series on the history of ORH for this breaking news. The wildfires in Los Angeles, California have destroyed thousands of homes. More than 130,000 have evacuated, and the death toll is rising. Operation Renewed Hope is reaching out to the gospel preaching churches on the edge of the disaster field to help share the good news of Christ as they provide food, water, and other...

In this discussion, we learn more about how Operation Renewed Hope began conducting medical mission trips. In the last episode, we heard about a church in Fayetteville, North Carolina that conducted a sports clinic in Panama after the fall of the Noriega regime.  During that sports trip, they became aware of the serious health needs among the villagers in Arenosa, Panama. To the best of their know...

In this episode, we learn how Operation Renewed Hope began. In 1991. a church in Fayetteville, North Carolina conducted a mission trip to Panama. While there, they discovered that many of the children and adults needed medical attention. In this podcast, we will hear about how ORH began and developed into the ministry it is today.  

Thanks for listening to Stories of Hope and Help! In this episode, we continue our discussion of how Operation Renewed Hope responded to help those in Sumatra and Indonesia who were devastated by the earthquake and tsunami. On December 26, 2004, a devastating 9.3 M earthquake struck near Sumatra. The resulting tsunami killed 230,000 people in 15 nations surrounding Sumatra. As you listen, ask your...