A couple of years ago, two college students challenged me—a woman in her 50s—to memorize the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5–7). Inwardly, I balked, but now I know that few things in my 35 years of following Jesus have been more transformative than committing Jesus’s most famous sermon to memory. John
poverty
Autumn is a season of changes. At our home, as the leaves yellowed and the days shortened, my youngest child started middle school. That means picture books have me feeling a little nostalgia for the past these days, right alongside a lot of excitement for new things to come. Man...
persecution
In early October, a 20-year-old Coptic Christian was kidnapped and killed at the hands of the Islamic State group. Milad Malak lived in Sebarbay, Egypt, and served as a church deacon at a local Coptic church. However, because of the country’s economic decline, he traveled to Liby...
disaster
Countries: Haiti, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Ecuador, Peru . KEY FIGURES 1.5M people now internally displaced across Haiti 114K families affected by drought in Bolivia between June and October 56K people affected by El Niño-related rains in Ecuador HAITI: VIOLENCE ...
disaster
. HIGHLIGHTS 47,800 gallons of water reached 257 displaced people in Lotin (Fermathe): 45,000 gallons of water for domestic use and 2,800 gallons of drinking water. 38 children and pregnant women received vaccines against vaccine-preventable diseases. 390 children received nutrit...
