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Date: November 3, 2011 7:12:37 AM EDT
Subject: Best Duct Tape Story Ever!
During a private "fly-in" fishing excursion in the Alaskan wilderness,the chartered pilot and fishermen left a cooler and bait in the plane, a bear smelled it.This is what the bear did to the plane.The pilot used his radio and had another pilot bring him 2 new tires, 3 cases of duct tape, and a supply of sheet plastic. He patched the plane together, and FLEW IT HOME !
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Great video! This is a question every state should be asking.
How To Deal With Worry (Pt. 2): Act Now
Posted by jody on Jul 21, 2011 in God, Grace, healing faith, Love, transformation, Uncategorized | 0 comments
Live in the “NOW.”
Often times we get so focused on the problems of tomorrow and the concerns of the past that we don’t live in the present. The key is to be diligent and apply yourself today by making informed decisions.
Applying yourself is putting your faith to work.
God promises you sufficient grace to meet and live victoriously in the midst of each day’s problems. When you choose to apply yourself today, no matter how difficult your present circumstances may seem, you are putting your faith to work. Remember, you only have grace for the day in which you are living. So deal with each day with the wisdom and grace God gives you.
God provided Manna for the children of Israel in the Wilderness.
In Exodus, chapter 16, Israel was wandering in the wilderness after being exiled from Egypt. As they journeyed through the wilderness God provided “manna” from heaven for them to eat. Each morning, after the dew had evaporated, manna appeared on the surface of the ground. Every family was allowed to gather a daily provision of manna for the people living in their tent. The only rule was they could not gather more manna than they needed for a single day. They could not store the manna for a rainy day, because it would only last for one day.
Grace is like Manna in the wilderness, it’s a daily provision.
Just like the Israelites in the wilderness, you can’t save yesterdays grace for use today, nor can you borrow from tomorrow’s grace for use in the present. We are given just enough grace for each day and not a bit more.
It’s important you realize that you are only given today – tomorrow might not come. “Act Now!” Make informed wise decisions that will bless your future. Don’t wait until tomorrow because the timing of the Lord is in the present. “Today is the day of salvation!”
Actions in the present affect the future.
Don’t worry about the future, but make provision for the future by taking actions that will bless you and not cause you to worry. For example, the person who is doing wrong today has some justification for worrying about the future. Today’s misdeeds will taint tomorrow; and upon arriving at tomorrow, there will be a past to regret. Today is vitally important! Yesterday is a cashed and canceled check – tomorrow is a promissory note with no collateral or signature.
What decisions can you make today that will make a positive impact on your future? Act Now!
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Apple causes ‘religious’ reaction in brains of fans, say neuroscientists
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In a recently screened BBC documentary, UK neuroscientists suggested that the brains of Apple devotees are stimulated by Apple imagery in the same way that the brains of religious people are stimulated by religious imagery.
People have often talked about “the cult of Apple”, and if a recent BBC TV documentary is to be believed, there could be something in it.
The program, Secrets of the Superbrands, looks at why technology megabrands such as Apple, Facebook and Twitter have become so popular and such a big part of many people’s lives.
In the first episode, presenter Alex Riley decided to take a look at Apple. He wanted to discover what it is about the company that makes people so emotional. Footage of the opening of the Cupertino company’s Covent Garden store in central London last year showed hordes of Apple devotees lining up outside overnight, while the staff whipped up customers (and themselves) into something of an evangelical frenzy. This religious-like fervor got Riley thinking – he decided to take a closer look at the inside of the head of an Apple fanatic to see what on earth was going on in there.
Riley contacted the editor of World of Apple, Alex Brooks, an Apple worshipper who claims to think about Apple 24 hours a day, which is possibly 23 hours too many for most regular people. A team of neuroscientists studied Brooks’ brain while undergoing an MRI scan, to see how it reacted to images of Apple products and (heaven forbid) non-Apple products.
According to the neuroscientists, the scan revealed that there were marked differences in Brooks’ reactions to the different products. Previously, the scientists had studied the brains of those of religious faith, and they found that, as Riley puts it: “The Apple products are triggering the same bits of [Brooks'] brain as religious imagery triggers in a person of faith.”
“This suggests that the big tech brands have harnessed, or exploit, the brain areas that have evolved to process religion,” one of the scientists says. A meeting with the Bishop of Buckingham, who reads the Bible using his Apple iPad, appeared to back up this assertion. He pointed out how the Apple store in, for example, Covent Garden has a lot of religious imagery built into it, with its stone floors, abundance of arches, and little altars (on which the products are displayed). And of course, the documentary doesn’t fail to give Steve Jobs a mention, calling him “the Messiah”.
Secrets of the Superbrands also looks at the likes of Facebook, which has enjoyed phenomenal success in just a few years. “Like Apple, mobile phones and social networks offer an opportunity for us to express our basic human need to communicate. And it’s by tapping into our basic needs, like gossip, religion or sex that these brands are taking over our world at such lightning speed,” Riley says. He concludes: “That’s not to say that clever marketing and brilliant technical innovation aren’t also crucial, but it seems that if you’re not providing a service which is of potential interest to every one of the 6.9 billion human beings on the planet, the chances are you’re never going to become a technology superbrand.”
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I knew it! I'm glad I use Apple products for more than 10 years (so that I'm past the fanboy stage). Now when I post that Windows 7 is faster on my oldish mac mini than OS X I get all kinds of flames from people who are using Apple computers for 1 or 2 years and think Apple is perfection in every way,You are a trend setter kioshi. Alex Brooks should be worshipping you.it's nice to know window's 7 has the ability to turn people away from mac's and lead them to the path of rightusness.
wiht that said i would like to finish with a quote from the all holy book of window's 7 "Apple is the devil and steve job's is his sidekick"That's it, I'm banning you from use of your keyboard's apostrophe key.Step 1) Start with a hypothesis that average Mac fans are overly committed to Mac.
Step 2) Select someone with a MORE than average dedication to the Mac Brand. Examine this person's brain to find that the abnormal behavior is backed up by abnormal reactions in the brain.
Step 3) Announce non-finding that average people react to Apple the way the Ultimate Fanboy subject does.Is there any science here?
You would think by 'fans' it was referring to one. I guess this article only discusses the first episode, but it certainly doesn't appear to have been a reputable study just judging by this article. It should have done a good sample randomly, not just selecting a few extremes. This is night and day different from the sound methodology of Gallup, for example.The article claims that the brains of Apple fans respond to Apple products in the same way that someone who is religious responds to their religion. Selecting a random sample would show little more than that not everyone is a fan of Apple, in the same way that not everyone is religious.Korbal has a point. There is potential here for good science, but this isn't it. However, neuorology does seem to be throwing up insights into issues such as creativity. Here it's suggesting angles on religious convictions.Absolutely what I thought when reading the headline:)
What I expected was they took, say, Justin Bieber fan, Apple fan, and Yankees fan for a test. If in this case Apple fan's reaction was brighter, that could be at least something. Being a fan is just that, no matter what is your religion.To be fair, we are criticizing a second-hand account. Who knows how exhaustive the article's author has been of what was presented in the actual series episode. Has anyone, here, seen the episode?I wonder who is more put off by this info: God or Steve Jobs?So they scanned ONE man's brain, who is *clearly* not normal and is beyond obsessive, and then claim this indicates that all Apple fans are reacting the same way? That's utterly ridiculous and in no way scientific, regardless of the equipment used in the process.Exactly!! I have been using Apple products since the day of the IIE and I in no way think about them 24 hours a day. Scan the brain of a football player and show him images of a football and tell me how he reacts to those images. I bet you get the same results.I think there's a lot of truth to the football thing. That's why it's such a problem. I grew up with kids who were literally abused because of their sports performance.This makes me feel a lot better about going to the Apple store every Sunday.This almost sounds like an April Fool's article. Too good to be true.As any researcher or statistician knows full well, a sample of one is completely and utterly meaningless. Go find 1,000 more people to examine and the result will be statistically viable. Until then, stop wasting people's time with pointless crap like this.An interview with a Bishop and a scan of one brain isn't really massive evidence. It is worth noting that Apple is primarily a US brand (over half of Apple devices are there, only about a quarter are in Western Europe http://www.9to5mac.com/7751/Apples-iPhone-powered.... Only 4% of US folks think they are atheist.I question the noteworthiness, Matt. There are many variables involved, such as launch dates, legal differences, international trade considerations, not to mention the vagueness of a survey of atheism. For example, many people draw a distinction between atheism and non-theism, and many others do not. I think far greater diligence is required to establish the connection you are asserting.It's an interesting area to explore, but Apple's success I think is more easily explained by their very close attention to creating the best user experience possible. From the iPod clickwheel to the iPhone touch screen, and to a lesser extent OS X, they've either done existing tech better (iPod) or created entirely new categories (iPhone).Whether that 'delight' created by a good user experience is the same as a religious experience is probably a bit doubtful. Religious fervour is more to do with blind acceptance of the words of others not the pleasure gained by achieving tangible goals.
But what does it mean when Apple's flagship New York store is shaped like the Kaba in Mecca?Somebody please do this with stupid people and pictures of Obama.“This suggests that the big tech brands have harnessed, or exploit, the brain areas that have evolved to process religion."That statement is so wrong. The brain didn't "evolve to process religion". Religion was never something we dealt with in a natural environment, it is simply one of the things the brain can do. Like videogames, the brain can play them, but they're artificially made so that we would want to interact with them. In fact, you could say the same thing about religion; it simply harnessed, or exploited those areas of the brain as well, it just did it much earlier.
To me it's a genuine admiration for something that is well thought out and well executed. While I have a PC now, I started out on a Mac in the 80s. There was just something elegant about it. A couple of years ago I finally bought an iPod Nano. I ordered it, having never handling one. Apple just knows how to push the buttons. It's a sterling little thing. Came in an acrylic jewelbox. The slick ergonomics are just so beautiful. It's not hard to desire other Apple products with the same satisfying, tactile, functional, and aesthetic value of engineering.The aesthetic can't grab me if it doesn't deliver the goods. I was loyal to Apple back in the day because I was convinced they were a good company, with integrity and a good philosophy. When they abandoned that and became all about money and marketing, they permanently lost me.I used to be relatively loyal to apple. They lost me when they made the switch to OS X; I was starting to dabble in Linux at the time. Close to the same time too, an Apple-branded monitor died just after the 3 year warranty, my first negative experience with apple hardware, which was usually very solid and reliable. What got me though was that I loved the transparency and consistent support of old software that Apple had stuck with. Apple had good support on their website for systems going back to System 1. OS X represented a break in UI too, the behavior was unintuitive all of a sudden, whereas it had been more or less similar with all the other changes up until that point. And I loved ResEdit. OS X did away with ResEdit and at the same time, Apple took down all their support. I felt abandoned, betrayed, I had been so loyal to them for years. Now they were all about being "cool" and "hip" and they didn't give a damn about sticking to their old philosophy of consistency of interface, and supporting old software. They permanently lost me. And I've been a die-hard Linux fan ever since, I briefly dabbled in Windows although I used Linux as my primary OS for a while, gave up my last *doze machine in 2005, and I have run exclusively linux since. Never looked back.This article's critic's have a real point. The popular press usually takes any scientific result and overgeneralizes it to the point of ridiculousness. (See this great XKCD for one example of how that works: http://xkcd.com/882/)And yet there is something interesting in this research. It didn't HAVE to be the case that even one person's brain lit up in response to Apple imagery in the SAME way some peoples' brains light up in response to religious imagery. Yes, they've taken someone who is at a far extreme of the human experience, so any generalization to "apple fans" as class of people is highly suspect at best.
But if passionate religious experience had nothing whatsoever to do with non-religious fandom, then it could well be difficult or impossible to find even one technology fan whose brain lit up that way. So, this research provides some support to the hypothesis that there may be something about passionate religious belief that is not so fundamentally different from experience that has absolutely nothing to do with God.
If you're an atheist, that is probably not unexpected news to you. But if you're highly religious, and believe that the way you feel when you're praying can ONLY be explained by the actual existence of a God who has a direct relationship with you, even one case such as this could rightfully challenge that assumption.
But, in any case, the scientific process usually starts with some observation that hints at a certain direction. More often than not, further research in that direction fails to lead to a successful result. But sometimes it does. You have to start somewhere, and just one interesting data, point such as this one, can be the jumping off point. Perhaps there IS a phenomenon where a somewhat higher percentage of Apple owners than PC owners have those parts of the brains light up. (In fact, I'd guess that that is not so unlikely.)
Obviously, this article is wrong to sensationalize one data point. An article like this can lead people who don't examine it closely to think the larger case has been proven. But that doesn't mean that that one case wasn't worth studying in the first place.
[Er, I've edited my earlier comment to remove two particularly egregious punctuation errors. I wish this user interface supported editing by the author of a comment!]This article's critics have a real point. The popular press usually takes any scientific result and overgeneralizes it to the point of ridiculousness. (See this great XKCD for one example of how that works: http://xkcd.com/882/)
And yet there is something interesting in this research. It didn't HAVE to be the case that even one person's brain lit up in response to Apple imagery in the SAME way some peoples' brains light up in response to religious imagery. Yes, they've taken someone who is at a far extreme of the human experience, so any generalization to "apple fans" as class of people is highly suspect at best.
But if passionate religious experience had nothing whatsoever to do with non-religious fandom, then it could well be difficult or impossible to find even one technology fan whose brain lit up that way. So, this research provides some support to the hypothesis that there may be something about passionate religious belief that is not so fundamentally different from experience that has absolutely nothing to do with God.
If you're an atheist, that is probably not unexpected news to you. But if you're highly religious, and believe that the way you feel when you're praying can ONLY be explained by the actual existence of a God who has a direct relationship with you, even one case such as this could rightfully challenge that assumption.
But, in any case, the scientific process usually starts with some observation that hints at a certain direction. More often than not, further research in that direction fails to lead to a successful result. But sometimes it does. You have to start somewhere, and just one interesting data point such as this one, can be the jumping off point. Perhaps there IS a phenomenon where a somewhat higher percentage of Apple owners than PC owners have those parts of the brains light up. (In fact, I'd guess that that is not so unlikely.)
Obviously, this article is wrong to sensationalize one data point. An article like this can lead people who don't examine it closely to think the larger case has been proven. But that doesn't mean that that one case wasn't worth studying in the first place.
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Hope For A Future
Edit // April 17th, 2011 // Uncategorized
Every trip I’ve made to Kenya is life transformational and the conduit for blessings I simply can’t comprehend! This trip was no exception as we visited many locations and witnessed, yet again, the life changing difference that our Lord promises when we connect in love and relationship with our brothers and sisters. For me, this is never more powerful then when I am with the precious children and orphans, many of whom in their short lives have been impacted from the ravages of HIV/AIDS or, in fact, have this disease themselves.
Project 82 was born out of the impact of these experiences a little over a year ago when, after multiple encounters with orphans and the amazing angels that love and care for them, the option of “doing nothing” was simply and profoundly unacceptable. As Christians, the charge on our lives to pour love, provision and time into ministering to orphans and widows (their caregivers) is unambiguous and absolute. Up until the age of 58 (and I’m now 62), I simply was not obedient–maybe I didn’t fully understand; but more likely, the focus I directed to myself did not leave any room to see much else. By God s grace, I made my first mission trip to Kenya and came to understand that the response to the commandment of the Great Commission applies to every Christian and called me to go, send, or do both. I also came to understand the sobering truth, beyond the instruction we receive in Psalm 82:3-4, Matthew 25:34-45; James 1:27, and Micah 6:8, that there is a very direct and clear call to those of us “to whom much has been given” and that is “much is expected”! I can no longer calibrate my material blessings with my neighbors or wealthy friends. Many of our friends and the children in Kenya live on less than $2 per day but averages fail to paint an accurate picture. The orphans are truly at the “end of the line”, where shelter, protection, health, food, water, clothing, education, HOPE and LOVE are rarely assured. But, praise God, when Jesus walked this earth, he “hung out” with and was focused on those at the back of the line.
His love, mercy and grace for these children are fully sufficient and there is truly hope! But, WE are called to be the tangible instruments of this transforming love and this is where Project 82 and our partners are called to serve — through child sponsorships (http://project82kenya.com/getinvolved/sponsor-a-child/molo-sponsorships/) that provide for basic shelter, provisions and education in partnership with the “angels” I mentioned above and to also establish powerful one-on-one relationships that connect the hearts of the donors with those of the children. We plan, by God s grace and provision, to build orphan homes for the most vulnerable where they will live in an environment of safety, love and nurturing, where they can grow up as children should be able to, without having to have all their waking hours consumed by surviving and with no preparation, hope or even concept of a future.
The ultimate highlight of a trip that contained many was seeing a most remarkable young man named Elias, a 16 year old boy that our family has sponsored for several years who lives in a loving orphan home named Havilla. We “connected” on the last day of the trip at Phoebe’s wedding. When, Elias and I saw each other, it was the same as all other times we’ve had a chance to be together – we hugged (tearfully), expressed our love for each other, answered questions and shared pictures of his family – my family (he considers, as we do, that our children, 2 of which he has met and knows, to be his brothers and sisters) and talked about his life. We were inseparable for the 4 hours we were at the wedding. He has dreams and hope for the future; they’re real; he’s getting an education and is excelling; he knows and lives in the power of God’s love; and he knows we love and will forever stand beside him! Elias and all of the orphans are no less than image bearers of the Creator, most precious in His sight and He has a plan for their futures AND it includes all of us.
Thanks be to God!
The United Methodist Church commissioned a committee to look at the big problems and difficulties in the church and issue recommendations in November 2009, building on a previous committee’s work. They’ve published their findings yesterday. I’ve read the 44 page summary over lunch (a long lunch) and you can read the basic recommendations on the UMNS article. I won’t repeat them here, you can read them there.
The basic recommendation can be summed up in a single sentence: “For a minimum of 10 years” the UMC is to commit to “sustained and intense concentration on building effective practices in local churches” (page 20). There’s plenty more, but the gist is moving connectional money away from connectional entities and to the local churches that are effective.
I agree with this in principle. In Natural Church Development classes, they use the image of a barrel filling with water. It doesn’t matter where the holes are or how big they are…it matters where the bottom hole is. If in the UMC the part that is leaking the most is the local church, then it must be dealt with before the rest. In advocacy we use a similar image: “A rising tide lifts all boats.” In principle, this is fine. The problem is balancing attention to the bottom hole with making sure the rest of the barrel isn’t on fire so there’s something left to work for.
Things I like at first glance:
- I enjoyed that my #1 question in my mind about retreating from the world parish to fix our own problems was a FAQ entry (page 33).
- I like how the CTA report takes caucus groups on both sides to task. On page 14, it says that we should “spend less time…stressing ‘renewal’ as if to restore past achievements” which is a clear reference to the conservative Renewal Groups (Good News, Confessing, IRD). On page 19, it also says that “making this change requires…setting aside many passionate causes in order to focus instead on overarching goals” which is an argument often used against Reconciling Ministries Network’s work for full inclusion of LGBT folks. So while we may disagree with their assessments, at least both sides are getting it.
- I like a lot of the language being used to change bureaucracy is forward-thinking and an overhaul of the systems not just incremental change.
- I liked the strong dedication to Wesleyan ideals, even if I worry about prooftexting them from 18th century to apply to the 21st century.
There’s more but that’s first glance.
Here’s what I’m wary of that I’ll write more about later in blog posts coming up soon.
- I’m wary of turning the General Agencies into grant-based entities. Any way you read it, basically they want to get rid of the staff and structure and turn them into barebones Lily Foundation-esque distributors of money that groups, missions, advocates ask for rather than pursue initiatives itself.
- I worry about trimming ineffective programs and giving more money to successful programs. It seems like a “No Church Left Behind” kind of model where you take money away from struggling programs rather than put more money at it to be effective. [In fact, that's a great blog post. Look for it soon, no one had better steal that line!]
- I’m critically concerned with the move toward “outcome-based ministry” that is concerned with numbers at every area of the church. I know that’s a reality, I have a business education, I’m not some “peace and puppy dogs” hippie, and yes, my church is growing fine, thank you. But I’m really concerned about it. Advocacy programs and community education programs won’t have people on the “saved souls” column but they are doing the slow work of ministry. Sigh. I’m still looking for how to put it into words though.
- Finally, the slow creep of congregationalism is apparent. From giving more autonomy to local churches and negating the influence of the general agencies, I noted no less than 5 areas where the church will be more congregational and less connectional than before. And I don’t believe that’s a Wesleyan or Methodist way of doing things.
There’s more, but again…first glance!
In closing, I loved the final comment by the co-chair in the UMNS article:
“The Gospel and our Wesleyan view of the way God’s grace goes before us and beckons us to God is of such critical importance that it must not be ignored,” he said. “The integration of personal and social holiness is a way of being in the world that can redeem a broken and hurting world. That is no less true today than when the circuit riders set out to spread scriptural holiness across the land.”
Amen.
Thanks and blessings to the Call to Action Steering Committee, and we offer critique and concern out of connectional love and concern. You are welcome, and thank you.
Thoughts?
What A Difference One Year Can Make!
Edit // April 9th, 2011 // Uncategorized
As I departed from Molo last February, I felt as though I was drowning in the despair that seemed to envelope this small village in the western region of Kenya. In the aftermath of the 2007 Post Election Violence, Molo’s population tripled practically overnight as it became a regional food distribution center for IDP – Internally Displaced Persons – from surrounding areas. Among this mass of humanity forced from their homes and neighborhoods for fear of violence were many children, either orphaned as a result of the fighting or simply abandoned. This rural farming community found itself in crisis. Suddenly thousands of people without livelihoods, and children without parents, overwhelmed the area. Into this desperate situation stepped the Molo Revival Church and its leadership council: Pastor Francis, Sister Rose, Pastor Stephen and Mama Jane.
Looking into the eyes of these, my brothers and sisters in Christ, I could see how overwhelmed they felt, like battle weary soldiers staring up the steep hill they must now assault while facing an onslaught of fresh enemy fire. Yet there was also a strength and resolve in these eyes. Tired and discouraged though they were, they were not defeated. They seemed to me a picture of what the very early church leaders of the first century Roman world would have looked like: disenfranchised, persecuted, hard pressed from every side, yet steadfast and faithful in their calling to live as citizens of the eternal Kingdom. Even though this church was filled with 70 to 80 children, all under the age of 11, with only a literal handful of adults, these loving servants of Christ were determined to give all that they had to be there Master’s hands and feet in this broken world. At that time their feeding program consisted of some bread and a cup of tea four times a week, and a cabbage or bag of maize whenever the funds could be mustered. For most of these small ones, this was the only food they were receiving all week long.
What a difference one year can make. The once dull and lifeless faces of the children set with hollow eyes, were now filled with light and eyes full of laughter. Smiles spread across their faces as we came into the building and sat down among them, and I was struck by the transformation that had overcome the congregation as a whole. The room was now filled with adults, men and women, from the village whose lives had begun to be transformed by the power of the Gospel message. The distribution of food, made possible by the partnering of faithful believers in the United States with the faithful believers of Molo Revival Church, was a flurry of frenzied activity. Handing out cabbages, beans and maize, I felt like I was witnessing Christmas morning; and they get to experience this every week after church! Salt, sugar, cooking fat and a cake of soap rounded out the rations for the 146 children currently enrolled in this program thanks to the obedience of sponsors and donors through Project 82. But the greatest miracle was yet to come.
The anticipation was palpable as we drove the short distance across town to the site of the House of Hope, a rented home where Mama Jane and her husband had moved to take in 16 orphans to date from vulnerable and desperate situations. Among these are Shoo-shoo and his two younger brothers, to whom he had served as both mother and father while they lived on the street with no provision. This 11 year old boy had taken it upon himself to do whatever he could to care for his family as he knew it, but now is relieved of these responsibilities given too soon and is able to just be a little boy, to learn and grow and laugh and have fun. Also in this home are Erica and Abraham. Last year I had visited the place where they were living with their father. I cannot even begin to describe here the conditions in which this 9 year old girl and her 6 year old brother were living. Abraham had suffered from an ear infection for over a year which had left him deaf in his left ear. Erica was silent and withdrawn, and reaching an age at which girls become extremely vulnerable both outside and inside their homes. To see them both laughing and playing, Abraham now with full hearing after many rounds of antibiotics and Erica twirling her dress in the sun filled yard, was to witness a miracle. Here again was the fruit of lives lived in obedience to Christ, on both sides of the world.
Make no mistake, there is still much pain and suffering here in Molo. There is still much work to be done, and many more vulnerable children who need to be rescued. But this place has been changed. It’s been changed by people who have allowed the Holy Spirit of God to flow unimpeded through their lives, who have given selflessly of themselves to give these children something they never would have had without the love of Christ – Hope. Hope is now a reality in Molo, and the future is something they can imagine.
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