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Jesus, You are the Bread of Life, the One who satisfies our deepest hungers and quenches our deepest thirsts. May our words and actions point others toward You. And as we point, may we not ignore the...
View ArticleFacing Fear, Finding Light
On December 11, 2013, my husband, Volodymyr, stood in Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, praying as military police advanced toward a crowd of peaceful protestors in the middle of the night. It was...
View ArticleSaving For Change
Economic Empowerment Through Self-Help Groups In communities throughout South Asia, NCM helps organize self-help groups. Through this model, groups of 15 individuals, typically women, come together to...
View ArticleDreams of Hope in Mozambique
In Southern Mozambique, near the Swaziland border, sits a rural village called Namaacha. In this place, the problems are many: a growing HIV and AIDS rate, poverty and hunger, declining agriculture...
View ArticleSewing Hope in Kenya
Next to the Nyamasaria River in Kenya, Nancy* and her husband began a shared life. There, they started their family of 12. And there, Nancy’s world was shattered. She watched as AIDS took the the life...
View ArticleCaring for Children in Crisis
Families from areas of the Middle East are fleeing their homes when violent extremists invade their towns—because the other option is to stay and die. When they arrive as refugees in neighboring...
View ArticleA New View
When working in the field of human trafficking, it’s much easier when you are able to clearly identify a particular person or group as evil. However, my perception was challenged deeply several months...
View ArticleA Lens of Compassion
In Papua New Guinea, where I grew up, the standard greeting began with the phrase “I see you … .” The greeter would fill in the blank with what a person was doing. I might have said to someone, “I see...
View ArticleHow Nazarenes in Texas Are Reshaping the Great Commission
Nobody around the table at the Cactus Nazarene Ministry Center understood just how prophetic Dana Franchetti’s words really were. “The face of the U.S. is changing, and it is the responsibility of the...
View ArticleCultivating Food
In 2004, the Gisenyi Church of the Nazarene began a compassionate ministry center, Ndengera (which is the Kinyarwanda imperative meaning “help me”) Foundation, to answer the cries for help from...
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