Social JusticeThe Challenge
An HIV+ diagnosis does not have to be the death sentence it once was. Yet, it does not present itself without huge challenges. Discover some of those challenges and ways that we as a society can help and be supportive of those living with HIV/AIDS.
(8/23/2010) Read MoreThe Effects of the Oil Spill on the Gulf and How Christian Women Can Respond
April 20, 2010—the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and subsequent ongoing oil spill left 11 men dead and countless others injured.
(7/18/2010) Read More Beauty for Ashes
Mary Clemons was convinced the only way out of her house was in a body bag. Enduring a fire of abuse through her 15-year marriage, she felt like a pile of worthless, ugly ashes . . . until God traded beauty for ashes.
(6/23/2010) Read More The Two Faces of Haiti
I went to Haiti March 1 to see firsthand what was happening. What I found were two totally different faces to Haiti and the problems there.
(5/28/2010) Read More ¿Habla Español?
¿Habla Español? You may not be able to speak Spanish, but most likely you live around people who do—people who have come from Latin–American countries to the United States looking for a better life. As Christians we are called to set aside our prejudices and minister to all people.
(4/13/2010) Read More One Pair of Raggedy Flip-Flops
More than 143 million children live and work on the streets. While statistics like this stagger the imagination of adults, how is it possible to engage children in social justice issues?
(2/24/2010) Read More Passing through the Waters: With Missionary Katherine Grant
Devastation and loss describe the Philippines as tropical storm Ondoy delivered 16.7 inches of rain in a 12-hour time-span—the worst flooding in 40 years. Missionaries, like Katherine Grant, often feel their work is a mere in the bucket; but they are seeing God work in miraculous ways.
(1/26/2010) Read More Naked Bodies and Plastic Smiles—Can You Look Beyond?
Asha Sanch, director of the Miqlat-Nagaland Women’s Center in India, is a life jacket—an agent used by the ultimate Lifeguard to rescue women from the troubled waters of the sex trade.
(1/6/2010) Read More The Edge of Hell Starts at Kibera Slums of Kenya
A child should not go to bed hungry, sick, and unsafe. But in a place called Kibera, Kenya, that is the daily norm.
(12/29/2009) Read More The God of All Comforts: Svitlana Rozsokha Ministers to Orphans in Ukraine
Svitlana Rozsokha spent her summer in Ukraine teaching at children’s camps and sharing her testimony in orphanages. Svitlana, who was herself once an orphan, uses the comfort she has received in Christ to comfort others.
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