Bread Brings Education, Health and Hope

Bread Brings Education, Health and Hope By, Jessie Manzer on July 5, 2016 “Chawama is Yawama!” shout a group of children outside World Central Kitchen (WCK) in Lusaka, Zambia. Inside, bakers are preparing their daily fresh bread. Aside from their deliciously baked bread, Chawana bakery offers much more. It helps provide children with education and […]


Amazing Event with Newsboys & Helping Up Mission

“We are so excited to be apart of what Meant 2 Live is doing with this Splendor event tonight! – It’s making such an impact in our community. Its treating people who are often forgotten, [and] taking them from the streets all the way up to the VIP experience here in Baltimore!” – On-Air personality […]


Danny Gokey visits Helping Up Mission

On Sunday, March 13th, IMPACT Collective and Meant 2 Live Foundation featuring Splendor traveled to Helping Up Mission to worship with American Idol alum, Danny Gokey. Helping Up Mission serves drug addicted males suffering from poverty. They’ve been serving and positively changing lives every day in the Baltimore area since 1885. We absolutely loved working […]


Orphans Recieve TOMS Shoes!

Imagine walking through streets filled with broken beer bottles, human waste and mud after a heavy storm. Now imagine the pain of walking through those streets with no shoes on every day of your life. For many children in Africa, this is their reality. Without shoes, children in impoverished communities stop going to school to […]


Beer Anyone?

  Five of our children at St. Abanoub school have been abandoned by their father. The oldest child is in 6th grade and the youngest is in preschool.  The mother is ill, and can’t afford to pay her children’s tuition for this term, which consists of $3/child, so all her children have missed the first […]


My first mission trip

This is my first mission trip.  Starting out on a trip to Africa has been an amazing experience. Today we ran our second Orphan Day for the children that live near St. Moses church. The children ranged in age from about 2 to 12.  Some of the children are true orphans while others are considered […]