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A Note from David...
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 With a little friend in Cuba
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This month we're making two changes to our monthly magazine.
The first you may have already noticed. We've finally got a name for our magazine. All our stories have happy endings, so the name, Happy Endings, seemed appropriate. Not only that, but a big happy ending is what following Jesus is all about!
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Second, we're adding a teaching article. Most people who discover Heaven's Family do so through our teaching ministry, either via our teaching website (ShepherdServe.org), one of our daily video- or e-devotionals, or a forwarded e-teaching. Each month we're touching tens of thousands of people by those means. So we thought it would be good to include some Bible teaching every month in this publication. I hope you are blessed by reading this month's teaching, The Ennoblement of a Secular Vocation.
So glad you are in the Family! — David
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This Month's Articles
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Rape Capital of the World
The Victims of Sexual Violence Fund at Work in the DR Congo
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Goma. It could be the most dangerous city in the world for a woman to live. To the north is a smoking volcano named Nyiragongo. The last time it erupted in 2002, a lava river as wide as ten football fields flowed through the city, taking the lives of 150 and leaving 120,000 homeless. Continue Reading...
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Siang Goes Green
The Christian Widows Fund at Work in Myanmar
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Siang Ngun is proud of what her hard work has accomplished, and she loves to show off the fruit of her labors, literally. Siang cultivates organically-grown guava fruit. Her secret to growing guava without pesticides? Siang ties immature fruit in small, quart-size plastic shopping bags, keeping out insects and birds. Continue Reading...
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14 Kakuma Kids
The Christian Refugees Fund Serving Sudanese Saints
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Abraham Atem was just a boy when he arrived at Kakuma, a Swahili word meaning "nowhere," and also the name of the refugee camp in northwestern Kenya that would become his home. His parents had been massacred by northern Sudanese soldiers, two casualties among an eventual two million who would forfeit their lives in Sudan's civil war. Fleeing for his life along with thousands of other orphaned children who are now known as Sudan's "Lost Boys," Abraham walked more than 1,000 miles to reach safety in Kakuma. It was 1992. Continue Reading...
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Her husband's body floated in her arms, lifeless. Fearing for her own life, she allowed the frigid river current to coax him from her grasp. There was no time to watch his corpse float away.
Just moments before, Mi Rae and her husband, Chin Ho [not their real names], were attempting a daring escape across the river separating North Korea from China. Continue Reading...
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This Month's Teaching
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My calling to vocational ministry came not long after my conversion to Christ, during my freshman year at Penn State. That call was so compelling that I can remember wondering then how other Christians could consider a "secular" vocation to be an option for their life's work. "How could a person be a Christian and be majoring in business or education or biology?" I thought to myself. I was soon off to Bible School. Continue Reading...
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Parting Shot: Myanmar Menu Misspelling
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When you are trying to appeal to English, as well as Burmese and Chinese customers, it never hurts to employ a good English proof reader who can spot when "carp" is misspelled!
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