HOPE International, a Lancaster-based nonprofit, is excited to join nine other leading poverty-fighting organizations for an innovative online experience called the 58: Global Impact Tour. The initiative, which has just launched, invites Christians to live and think differently to eradicate extreme global poverty.
58: is a global alliance of Christians, churches and 10 of the world’s leading poverty-fighting organizations working together with one goal—to end extreme poverty by 2035. 58: takes its name from the biblical mandate of Isaiah 58 to care for the poor and oppressed. HOPE is part of the 58:Alliance, which also consists of Compassion International, The Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC), ECHO, Food for the Hungry, International Justice Mission, Living Water International, Micah Challenge, Plant with Purpose, and World Relief.
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DENVER, CO – As a right guard for the Indianapolis Colts, Seth Olsen uses his 6-foot, 4-inch, 305-pound frame to block his opponent’s moves.
But while his physical strength, size and stamina make a difference on the football field, when it comes to making a difference in the world, Olsen makes charitable contributions to Lifewater International, a non-profit, Christian organization that dispatches trained volunteers to visit in-country partners implementing water, sanitation and hygiene improvement projects in some of the poorest countries in the world.
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Dr. Doug Daehlin, from Spokane, Washington, is one of more than 400 Mercy Ships crew members, including dental team and oral/maxillofacial team members, who are currently volunteering their expertise in Togo. “While there are lots of opportunities to be a volunteer dentist around the world, I was immediately drawn to Mercy Ships. During my volunteer service, I will work side-by-side with dental colleagues from other parts of the U.S. and around the world. Our collaboration and exchange is an invaluable experience,” stated Dr. Daehlin.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - Focus on the Family helped strengthen or save 1.2 million marriages in 2011. This figure is part of the 90 percent of projects and commitments Focus was able to fulfill in spite of the year’s economic downturn, which significantly impacted the organization.
The ministry, through licensed professional counselors on staff, provided counseling to nearly 52,000 individuals since January. Additionally, more than 106,000 searches were made on the Focus website for Christian therapists. The counseling department gave away about $42,400 as benevolence cash donations and $24,000 in resources to those in need. The ministry’s licensed counselors consider this area the heart of their work – personal, professional, one-on-one therapy and helps for people who feel they have nowhere else to turn.
Organization's ‘Unfinished' Magazine Features Renewed Emphasis on Reaching Groups with Little Access to Gospel At Home, Abroad
NORCROSS, GA — "Least reached people" are often considered those without written or oral scriptures in their own language, often overseas. But the world's "least reached" can also be found in the heart of the United States, in immigrant communities or the inner cities, where residents have no Christian believers in their lives.The Mission Society, which deploys Christian missionaries across the globe, has re-examined its mission and re-affirmed its roots to reach the "least reached" with the gospel. In the current issue of "Unfinished," the organization's publication, ministry leaders explain a newly galvanized attention on reaching those who have never really learned who Jesus is.
Kairos Prison Ministry International, Inc. is
currently spanning into more communities here in the United States
and abroad. All of the programs within the ministry have seen
continued growth.Kairos Inside program strategy brings positive and negative leaders of the institution together for a 3 1/2-Day Weekend event after which residents establish small Prayer and Share groups within the institution with the support of the Chaplain.
ROCKY MOUNT, NC - The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability has approved the accreditation of Youth on Mission.
YOM is an international short-term missions agency that has sent more than 60,000 people to the field since its founding in 1992. Teams consist of church groups, school classes and business people who come together to work on projects and share the Gospel both in the U.S. and abroad.
ECFA accreditation is based on the ECFA Seven Standards of Responsible Stewardship™, including financial accountability, transparency, sound board governance and ethical fundraising.
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Cybermissions training in the Amazon River basin
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CARSON, CALIFORNIA - Imagine packing 500 hours of Bible college training on a $13 chip that plays from a cell phone. Add speakers to the cell phone for only $20 and a group of pastors can be trained in places far-removed or unreachable by conventional means.
"I don't need a visa to get into these countries," says John Edmiston, founder of Cybermissions. (www.cybermissions.org) "We tunnel in and then we blast away."
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58: unites major anti-poverty organizations, leaders, and churches around historic goal
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO – Today, ten leading Christian anti-poverty organizations announced the launch of “58:” – an unprecedented alliance of global Christians, churches and faith-based poverty-fighting organizations working together to end extreme, global poverty by 2035. To achieve this ambitious goal, 58: aspires to become the largest, most unified effort ever by the global Church to help the 1.4 billion people living on less than $1.25 a day – a revolutionary, worldwide response to the call of Isaiah 58.
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With colorful posters and pamphlets, the Bridge of Hope team lovingly taught these children the importance of nutrition-and then provided them with vitamin tablets.
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SOUTH ASIA - As part of Gospel for Asia's Bridge of Hope program, children receive medical care that is widely unavailable in their areas. This is monumental in regions where many children die from preventable diseases.
One Bridge of Hope center, in partnership with a humanitarian organization, took on the task of fighting one of the common ailments: blindness.
In their region, green leafy vegetables and other sources of Vitamin A are almost completely absent in children's diets. This isn't because the children don't want to eat their vegetables-it's because they can't. The food that poor families can afford is very limited and often doesn't include vegetables.
For several years, Kairos Prison Ministry International has had a memo of understanding with Crossroad Bible Institute. Both ministries have a deep passion to equip incarcerated men, women and youth with Biblically based materials to help them better understand the transforming love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ. Together, the ministries are actively promoting Bible study through the Crossroad Bible Institute's free correspondence course.
Crossroad Bible Institute has been working since 1984 to provide students with faith-based reentry education, to equip the church to make disciples, to guide students into reentry agencies upon their release and to educate the church on criminal and restorative justice issues.
AUSTIN, TX – Ken Hall, chief executive officer of Buckner
International
since 1994, announced his retirement from the
Dallas-based organization
during a July 22 meeting of the board of
trustees. His retirement is
effective April 30, 2012, when President
Albert Reyes will assume the
CEO title.
Hall,
who was
elected to the position in 1993, served as president/CEO of
Buckner
until 2010, when Reyes was elected president. Hall has continued
serving as CEO. With his retirement, board members named Hall
president
emeritus as of May 1.
During Hall’s tenure
at the helm of Buckner, the organization grew into
one of the
nation’s showcase social service organizations, serving more
than
400,000 people annually through an array of services around the
world.
KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - Members of the Congolese medical community joined church and mission leaders, relief workers and Congolese government officials in celebrating 50 years of Mission Aviation Fellowship service in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (DRC).
Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) is a Christian ministry organization that uses airplanes and other technologies to serve church and relief organizations in remote areas of the world.
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