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Insights from Movements for Effective Crisis Response
…aid. 3. Be Strategic. We need to integrate crisis response with discipleship. Maximizing strategy and coordination between first, second, and long-term responders can make the most of relationships and opportunities at each stage. Crisis response must become a long-term opportunity to plant and multiply congregations. 4. Prioritize Prayer. Recognize that God is…
50 Examples of Movements in Crisis Response
…aid for by the U.S. government. That, in turn, allowed the ministry to evacuate believers in imminent danger and provided a deep level of access to many Afghans over time, resulting in many coming to faith. 2. Refugees in areas surrounding conflicts in Sudan were engaged through collaboration by a…
A Support Structure for Staying the Course
…attitudes and actions that can bring dis-ease to ourselves and others around us. All of us have the potential to catch any and all of these diseases—the main problem lies in denial or wrong diagnosis, or no diagnosis at all, i.e. being unaware of them.1 Let us use this thinking…
Swedish Model as an Example to Prevent Human Trafficking
…attitudes, and underlying principles for legislation, policies and interventions regarding prostitution and trafficking in human beings. Students at the Police Academy are also given access to training on prostitution and human trafficking-related legislation and policies, awareness-raising and effective investigation methods. The National Rapporteur concluded in her 2011 report on initiatives…
Hope in the World of Addiction & Sex Trafficking
…aid two-thirds of the 36 million victims of trafficking come from Asia, with India, China and Pakistan at the top.1 There are more than 270 million addicts worldwide, and seven people die every minute from drug and alcohol addiction and abuse. That is more than 3.6 million per year. It…
Tribute to Jim Downing
…aid. “Let me come visit you,” Jim replied. Just the previous month Jim had lost Morena, his wife of 68 years. He was 96½, and ready for whatever God had next. God gave Jim the word “availability” for this season, and he traveled, discipled and spoke through December 2017, well…
Nomads: Helping Them to Face the Growing Challenges
…aid and goats’ milk mixed with hot water, coffee leaves and salt. We call the food aid, ‘Kings Food’ because it’s from the outside. We have no king. It is a shame to eat this food but we have no choice. We are dependent on it.” “At the same time…
The Presence of God Amidst the Brokenhearted
…aid agencies couldn’t put tents up fast enough. Several hundred thousand Yazidis are living in UN Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps, but tens of thousands more have found refuge in abandoned, unfinished buildings. While walking inside a neighborhood of abandoned buildings, my team and I were stopped by a group…
Applied Orality:
…aid workers have been doing it ever since, even during our print dominant era from Gutenberg to the internet. Dr. Bauta Motty4 applied orality to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Nigeria, and his son, Sung Bauta applied it to economically empower 70 widows in a predominantly Muslim area. Here are…
The Deaf
…aid, I have “selective hearing.” I can turn my hearing aid on, but I can turn it off, too! How well do you think I sleep at night? Great! I take my hearing aid off so I don’t hear anything when I sleep. And Deaf people have an advantage with…
Simple Churches
…aiders, marauders who would periodically attack other villages and steal their livestock. These attacks were a matter of both livelihood and pride in this culture; a successful raider could boast that he had fought and won, But the men became puzzled by the changes they saw in their wives, and…
Learn from Our Mistakes
…aid. What poor people need is the ability to earn money. With earnings they can buy food and medicines and not have to rely upon uncertain gifts from a foreign country. Missionaries are often ill-trained to establish businesses. The Mistake of Sending Short-Termers, Not Long-Termers This is not a case…
Poverty, Getting to the Heart of the Matter
…Aid Is Not Enough There are many voices inside and outside the Church that say, “We just need to be more generous.” But is this really the long-term answer? If everyone in the “developed world” were to give the poor 10 percent of their income, would this solve the problem?…
Students Abandoning Their Faith
…aid that loving God involves both heart and head (Matthew 12:29-30). And Paul, in Romans 12:1-2, insisted that serving God involves renewing the mind. Second, our instruction should revolve around the fact that Christianity is a robust faith. This means that when it comes to life’s most pressing issues, we…
Remembering a Life Well-Lived: Tributes from Around the World
…aid foundations in time and eternity. Mike Pocock Missions Professor, Dallas Theological Seminary I have nothing but great memories of Ralph Winter. In 1978, Ralph and Roberta were considering the purchase of the Pasadena property to begin what they would call the U.S. Center for World Mission. Ralph came to…
The Truth Behind the New Atheism
…attacks on religion, Christianity in particular. With his friend the American philosopher Daniel Dennett and a young protégé named Sam Harris, who, like Dennett, studies human consciousness, Dawkins has attempted to parlay the prestige science has accumulated since the time of Boyle and Hooke into overthrowing The God Delusion, as…
Editorial Comment
…aid is now floating around the world these days, but because of the lack of honest people of good will – the very people who are the product of Christian mission, people who are often overlooked by the major secular aid programs. Missions produce transformed people. They are absolutely essential…
Editorial Comment
…Aid’s bulletin, Christian Mission, describing in some detail the work Bob Finley has been doing—from 1953 to 1976 with International Students, Inc., and from 1976 to the present with Christian Aid Mission. However, the actual work Christian Aid is doing is not so much the issue as what they are…
Who Cares About the Millennium Development Goals?
…AIDS and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases Reverse environmental loss and halve the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water Develop a global partnership for development focusing on fair trade, good governance, national debt, affordable drugs, and access to new technologies The zeal of promising…
Letters
…aid, “This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre.” The Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al Husseini, stated, “I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews. Murder them all.” Then five Islamic countries attacked to eliminate the infant Jewish state. There have been three…