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1. Darkness
(blogs/08-09)

... children are afraid of the dark. What is it that makes a childish mind fear the lack of light? I believe it’s fear of the unknown. Unfortunately, this fear doesn’t go away as we grow into adulthood. We ...

2. Claire Brazil
(resources/article)

I arrived to Brazil, on the 26th of March, I was excited, anxious, nervous, I think I felt nearly all the emotions a person could feel, going through me. Not knowing what to expect but knowing that I could ...

3. Eyes, smiles and faces
(blogs/07-08)

... knows who he is pressed against to, where each person is just another face. Where kids are left in orphanages, just because their parents can‘t take care of them. I have personally loved Chile. ...

4. KT :: Young Hope o8
(resources/article)

Between summer 06 and summer 07 people kept giving me the verse Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future ...

5. Sao Paulo, Brazil w/ CENA
(blogs/08-09)

... and doing who knows what else. By this time I had drifted into my own little world, thinking what seemed like a million thoughts per second. Who supplies the drugs out here? How does a 13 year old get ...

6. Relationship
(blogs/08-09)

... out and either don’t take the time to receive or don’t have anyone willing to invest in them. I know God wants us to do our part to help people. To, “bring heaven to earth,” but I don’t believe he wants ...

7. Hope
(blogs/08-09)

... last chapter in his life story. He told me he knows God can set him free. He wants to go to a program but he has dialysis three times a week and no rehab is willing to take him to his dialysis. I can’t ...

8. Andrew Bio
(blogs/08-09)

... glory because I know that there's not even a slight possibility that I could have turned things around on my own. God took a kid with no motivation for anything other than rapping and doing drugs, and ...

9. The gift of time
(blogs/08-09)

... sad that this 19-year-old girl, who has been forced into a life of prostitution by culture and circumstances, feels that no one would care about her story. How it impacts people to know that we care! ...

10. final thoughts
(blogs/06-07)

I always find it hard before something happens, when I don't know what to think or expect. When I don't know I'd sometimes rather not think about it at all. Now when it's time to look back I realize that ...

11. Doug Stringer: Born to die
(resources/book review)

... known as the fellowship offering). This is a vow of friendship and a spontaneous expression of ones gratitude and commitment to God. This offering, unlike the others, was simply offered at the discretion ...

12. Jennie.blog.april15
(blogs/06-07)

I've been back in Houston for a while now. The first couple of weeks were a bit weird, but now things have gotten back to normal. Well, maybe not normal... I don't really know what normal is. Things always ...

13. Poverty
(Newsflashes/Newsflash)

Have you ever seen a house that's so torn down that it should have been torn down ages ago? And you just know that no one can live there? I saw a lot of those houses in Sao Paulo. And outside of all of ...

14. karen march 16
(blogs/06-07)

... need to just remind myself that i am a beggar - that i am nothing in myself and that i need Jesus. And when i humble myself, i know that he will come through for me.    ...

15. March 7th
(blogs/06-07)

... as ive been able to get to know the girls in my group much better as they open up about the different things that they are dealing with in their lives. Last Thursday was so exciting for me because one ...

16. Swings - 5 march
(blogs/06-07)

... something just between the two of us, a secret, a joy that only we know. The rest of her family stops to, some start to swing, some hang around and talk. When grandma is ready, they all leave. When she ...

17. Cena
(blogs/06-07)

... people, stands a building known to these people as "A Casa Amarela" - the yellow house. This is where Cena has it's base, and where I spent almost two weeks. Cena is a Christian organisation that works ...

18. Maringa
(blogs/06-07)

... Before I came i didn't really know what it would be like, and for the first couple days I felt really overwhelmed and like I didn't have what was needed to do it. It was really hard at times, but it was ...

19. Rolandia
(blogs/06-07)

... of the town. My job this week (since I didn't know that much Portuguese) was mostly to encourage the team, and just get to know them and pray for them as they did their things. We did a lot of things, ...

20. Sao Paulo
(blogs/06-07)

... there (no one really knows...). If you want to think that it's beautiful city you have to limit yourself to a very small part of it. And even then it's hard, because in Sao Paulo everything is mixed together ...