Articles for tag: Food for the Hungry

April 29, 2015

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You Can Help Nepal

By Jennifer Johnson Many mission agencies and international ministries are working to provide relief, support, and financial resources to those affected by Saturday”s devastating earthquake in Nepal. Central India Christian Mission, which has worked in Nepal the last 15 years, writes, “On a typical Saturday morning, many Nepalese churches meet for weekly worship services. On Saturday, April 25th, at 11:56 am when many Nepalese brothers and sisters in Christ were worshipping, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake occurred. It destroyed almost everything in the country. From Saturday until now, approximately 45 earthquakes have happened in the country. It has brought huge destruction.

March 15, 2012

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Film Festival Aims at Raising Water Awareness

By Jennifer Taylor The mission of Journey”s Crossing Christian Church (Gaithersburg, MD) is to “meet people where they are and help them find their way back to God.” This summer the church will continue taking steps to accomplish its mission by hosting a film festival to connect with local artists and provide clean water in Africa. In partnership with Food for the Hungry, Journey”s Crossing will host the Reel Water Film Festival on June 16. Aspiring filmmakers may submit short films (ranging from 5 to 25 minutes) by April 30, and a panel of judges will select winners in a

December 23, 2010

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Churches Provide Mission Opportunities at Christmas

Sherwood Oaks Christian Church (Bloomington, IN) created a Global Christmas Market catalog to provide opportunities for missional giving this season. The catalog included information about the local and global missions supported by SOCC, as well as specific “wish list” items for each ministry: food for the hungry, a week at camp for a needy child, mosquito nets, and many more. Participants could designate their financial donation toward any item and the church also provided gift acknowledgement cards for them to explain their donation to recipients. Common Ground Christian Church (Indianapolis, IN) also created a way for members to give to

December 20, 2009

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Season of Love

  by Jennifer Taylor In this article, churches around the country share the unique ways they plan to “get their hands dirty” and serve their communities this Christmas. Last year our team discussed the huge amount of work we put into Christmas programs and decided to invest the energy in helping one of the missions our church supports. We wrote a drama about a local ministry that helps pregnant women choose life instead of abortion. It was not hard to make the connection between a young, unmarried college couple dealing with an unexpected pregnancy and the Joseph/Mary scenario. The local

November 29, 2009

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INTO AFRICA: Ray and Effie Giles

  by Kathy Harless “We left a church in Ethiopia.” Ray Giles wrote in tears in late 1977, yet a quiet victory filled his heart. His family and other Christian Missionary Fellowship missionaries had been hastily evacuated in the spring with the advent of a strong Marxist government.  For nine years before that, Ray and Effie Giles worked alongside teammates in evangelizing, educating, and planting churches among the unreached Oromo and Gumuz peoples. Ray”s greatest concern was whether they had prepared the new and maturing Christians for the persecution that lay ahead. Yet, a church was being forged in Ethiopia

September 9, 2007

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Feeding the Hungry

By Pat Magness The front page of our local paper recently featured a photo of a bluebird balanced precariously on a slender branch, a large strawberry in its open beak, and scruffy-looking baby bluebirds to the right and left, both squawking for food. You might ask how a printed photograph could squawk, and all I can say is that I could tell these babies were hungry and I could hear them squawking right off the page. I identify with that little bluebird. Much of my adult life has been consumed with feeding the hungry, sometimes the squawking hungry, sometimes the

August 12, 2007

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Ministering to the Least of These: Southland Christian Church, Lexington, KY

By Mark Perraut Southland Christian Church Lexington, Kentucky The statistics are staggering, and the stories are overwhelming and heart-wrenching. The issues of HIV/AIDS and world hunger are so enormous we wonder how we can help at all. In order to start to help, we must understand the causes of these modern-day plagues and discover ways to break the generational cycle. Contributing factors of the HIV/AIDS pandemic include poverty, war, promiscuity, homosexuality, and the lack of adequate health care. In Africa 3 million children under the age of 15 are infected with HIV/AIDS. As many as 12 million African children have

August 12, 2007

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Ministering to the Least of These: East 91st Street Christian Church, Indianapolis, IN

East 91st Street Christian Church Indianapolis, Indiana East 91st Street Christian Church is combating HIV/AIDS primarily through our support of organizations involved in this work. For decades, we have been a major supporter of Christian Missionary Fellowship International, and many of the cross-cultural missionaries we support are affiliated with CMF. In recent years CMF has broadened the scope of its ministry to include some major moves into the areas of HIV/AIDS, especially in Africa and southeast Asia. Through our partnership with CMF, we believe we are making a contribution to these world crises. We have been a major supporting partner

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