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Testimony Story: Following Your Heart to Love “The Least of These” with Tracy Alin | Founder, Amistad Worldwide

August 2, 2023

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The Lovelight Stories Podcast with Tracy Alin, Founder of Amistad Worldwide

In this episode, you’ll have the chance to meet Tracy Alin. She founded Amistad Worldwide in 2010, and she has served as a social worker and chaplain in long-term care facilities for 25 years. Tracy’s also currently an online professor teaching in Bible colleges in both India and Nepal. Before this episode is over, she may just encourage you to begin following your heart too!

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Today you’ll hear Tracy’s testimony story and how God is at work in India saving orphaned children, supporting widows, loving lepers, and more. Through this episode, you’ll come to better understand the caste system and how it effects various people groups, making them some of the most vulnerable in the world.

I’ve known Tracy for many years already, as she’s actually my husband’s aunt! As you can imagine, we’ve had so many conversations about the materially poor and what God is doing around the world. It’s such a blessing to be interested in similar work and to have learned from Tracy over the years!

The Lovelight Stories Podcast with Tracy Alin, Founder of Amistad Worldwide

Topics covered in this episode:

  • Tracy’s testimony story and what lead her to India and to the founding of Amistad Worldwide

 

  • Understand how Amistad began and the purpose behind this it!

 

  • Better understand the caste system and corruption in India and how that effects various people groups: trafficked children, orphans, widows, unreached people groups, and more.

 

  • Sweet stories of the children raised in the orphanages of India - come to understand their hearts and how they’ve been able to flourish!

 

  • How and why Amistad is unique from other charities or nonprofits
The Lovelight Stories Podcast with Tracy Alin, Founder of Amistad Worldwide

 

As you listen, it won’t take you long to see how pure and intentional Tracy’s heart is for helping the most vulnerable around the world. I’m really excited for you to listen-in and come to understand not only her heart, but that of RK and the children he is raising in the orphanages. It paints a beautiful picture of what can happen when people across cultures, around the world, all say “yes” to the same calling God has placed inside them. Are you ready to begin following your heart too?

The Lovelight Stories Podcast with Tracy Alin, Founder of Amistad Worldwide

Tracy's Bio:

Tracy Alin founded Amistad Worldwide in 2010, and she has served as a social worker and chaplain in long-term care facilities for 25 years. Tracy’s also an online professor teaching in Bible colleges in both India and Nepal. She is married to her husband John, who is a pilot, and together they have one son. She loves to read and study, be outside, kayak, run, sail, travel, and spend time with family and friends. She also plays violin, piano, and harp.

Get in touch with Tracy to donate by email amistadworldwide@gmail.com, text 701-388-0178, or send her a message through their website at Amistadworldwide.org.

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The Lovelight Stories Podcast with Tracy Alin, Founder of Amistad Worldwide
The Lovelight Stories Podcast with Tracy Alin, Founder of Amistad Worldwide

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