Melanie Dale, Author at Children's HopeChest

Melanie Dale

Melanie Dale is the author of Women Are Scary: The Totally Awkward Adventure of Finding Mom Friends and It’s Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn’t Choose. She’s also a contributor for Coffee+Crumbs, an advocate for Children’s HopeChest, and has partnered with Adacar CarePoint in Uganda for the last seven years. Her writing has been featured on Parenting.com, Scary Mommy, Working Mother Magazine, Deadspin’s Adequate Man, Ann Voskamp’s A Holy Experience, and Today’s Christian Woman, and she’s a panelist for MomsEveryday TV. Living in the Atlanta area, she enjoys recording her podcast, Lighten Up with Melanie Dale, and blogging at Unexpected.org.

What’s a Vision Trip

Blog, Community-to-Community / March 7, 2017 April 16, 2020

Have you ever wondered how a HopeChest partnership gets started? You hear about people sponsoring kids, raising money for development projects, and visiting their CarePoints, but how does it all begin? One of the first steps in developing a Community-to-Community partnership is taking a Vision Trip. This week on HopeChest Insights, we’re talking with Wil …

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Be Their Valentine

Blog / February 14, 2017 October 3, 2017

Happy Valentine’s Day! That sentiment seems to elicit many different reactions, from ooey gooey joy to minor irritation. Whether this is your favorite holiday ever or you’re contemplating going back to bed for the day, hi. I think you’re fantastic. Valentine’s Day has too much pressure to be amazing, so my husband and I have …

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Reunited, A Video From Adacar CarePoint in Uganda

Community-to-Community, Uganda / September 27, 2016 January 29, 2020

If you’ve ever been on one of our trips, this video gives you a peek into what it’s like when a group of long-time sponsors is reunited with the community they’ve grown to love.

How to Respond When Bad Things Happen

Ethiopia, Personal Impact / August 16, 2016 January 29, 2020

As they’ve developed their community’s resources, God has healed their material poverty. In both communities we have empowered one another to pull ourselves out of our poverty.

Melanie Dale

What’s a Vision Trip

Be Their Valentine

Reunited, A Video From Adacar CarePoint in Uganda

How to Respond When Bad Things Happen

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