Articles for tag: Compassion

June 29, 2008

Christian Standard

The Inside-Out Life

By Ken Idleman Janice and Faye Rosvit are twin sisters who left their very close-knit family circle, their aging parents, their beloved Colorado Rocky Mountains, and promising country-western singing careers to enroll in Bible college. There they studied phonetics and missions before eventually traveling to more than 100 countries of the world. They have been destitute, sick with dysentery, separated from loved ones, and stung by a Portugese Man “O War. (And that hurts!) Why would they do all of this? Kevin D. took his wife and children to the jungles of Panama to fight the drug traffic in the United

August 12, 2007

Christian Standard

Ministering to the Least of These: RiverTree Christian Church, Massilon, OH

RiverTree Christian Church Lexington, Kentucky Five years ago, God began building a deep concern for at-risk children into the DNA of RiverTree Christian Church. We discovered that more than 33,000 children around the world die every day from poverty or preventable poverty-related diseases. That”s about 210,000 children per week, or 11 million per year. Did I mention the word preventable? More than 100 million children live on the streets around the world. If we were to say the name of every street child in the world, using one second per name, it would take us more than three years to

May 20, 2007

Christian Standard

Will Work for Food

By Mike Faust Jagged hair framed the haggard face of a 30-year-old woman. She wore no cosmetics. Her bulky pants matched her XXL gray sweatshirt. I stopped to take a second look. In front of her she held a cardboard sign with four words scrawled on it: “Will work for food.” As I hurried into McDonald”s for lunch, my heart pounded as if I had just witnessed a car wreck. Who can think of food at a time like this? I spoke in chopped sentences: “There”s a woman . . . and a sign . . . she”s in trouble.”

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