Prayer Focus: Child Abuse
As a mother, one of the most difficult issues for me to delve into is child abuse. I shy away from reading news or books about it. And, to tell you the truth, when I was assigned this blog topic, [...]
TCT – Does it Work?
We began Truth Centered Transformation (TCT) nearly 15 years ago. It is a five-year church training program with three goals: 1) Glorify God, 2) Strengthen the church, and 3) see communities move out of poverty. We were stunned when we [...]
Pray: Natural Disasters
If you are like me, you are excited to welcome the New Year, to put last year to rest and start fresh. It is no understatement that 2017 was a very difficult year, especially in terms of natural disasters—wildfires in [...]
Delight
Our theme for our third year was Be Still and Know that I am God. At first I had resisted the theme. I mean seriously, it didn’t seem like a sensible option for an organisation, because, quite obviously, our very [...]
God is Able
2017 has been a tough year for me in many ways. Perhaps you’ve felt it too. Some days it seems that the bad news never stops coming, and that the darkness of politics, social divides, violence, fear, and hatred will [...]
Glimpses of Hope in the Elimination of Violence Against Women
November 25, marks the Annual Day of the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Every year there are simply hundreds of special days. It’s impossible to keep up with them all. But regardless, this is one that I do think is worth pausing to remember.
Prayer: Ethnic Violence & Genocide
But the truth is that genocide by no means happens suddenly. It is rather like a slow-growing cancer. We often don’t recognize the early symptoms, and sometimes we just don’t want to. Like cancer, genocide grows in stages. It begins simply with the way we start to classify ourselves in contrast to other groups, and then discriminate, persecute, and eventually try to eliminate them.
Dignity: Our Measuring Stick
we need to change the way we think about being involved in others lives. Too often we leave the poor feeling like they are a project to cross off our to-do lists rather than people we genuinely care about.
Prayer: Domestic Violence
Physical violence is rampant, but there are other abuses that wives face. It is painful to watch the sheer contempt and disdain that many men show for their wives, the way they demean and degrade them with their words.