Aug 22 2024 61 mins
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.
Please consider supporting The Luke Commission by visiting www.lukecommission.org and becoming a partner today.