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By Brian Davis, serving in Senegal West African youth are passionate about soccer; Alliance people are just as passionate about why the “world’s sport” is a platform for outreach. “If you can imagine the following generated by U.S. professional football, basketball, baseball, hockey, golf an... (original story)
Posted from Alliance News & Stories 123 days ago
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By Ken Young, serving in Japan In December 2011, I stood in front of more than 80 people, mostly young children with their mothers, feeling as if I were dreaming. My wife, Kathy, and I—along with Pastor and Mrs. Takahashi of Mihara City and a few people from the Mihara Alliance Church—had just f... (original story)
Posted from Alliance News & Stories 123 days ago
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More than 80 people in Japan heard the gospel, most for the very first time, during a Christmas outreach in a churchless mountain town. They sang Christmas carols, enjoyed a puppet show, and took home gifts of food and Christmas tracts. And they heard “Kentucky Santa” tell them about the real... (original story)
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“‘What shall we have to eat today?’ It’s a question that means different things to different people,” says Peggy Drake, a nurse who serves with The Alliance in Burkina Faso. “In the West we have so many choices for food. But right now in Burkina, for many there is nothing to eat!” Spor... (original story)
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By Teresa Bill, serving in the Republic of the Congo It was a typical children’s club at our home in Ollombo—under the carport that has expanded into a youth shelter. Lekonga, 10, who never misses club, came to me at the end of a meeting in May 2010 in tears. God had been convicting him of his ... (original story)
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By Jim Adams, who teaches at Dakar Academy—a boarding and day-school program (K-12) largely for the children of international workers. I especially look forward to our January Dakar outreach each year; this year it’s the 20th to the 22nd. A missionary friend and I take a small group of senior... (original story)
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By Esther Schaeffer, serving in Burkina Faso “Break a leg.” It’s not exactly what I said, but I did begin to pray that the Lord would give me another contact with Djeneba. Our widows’ ministry involves 182 women and their families. Recently, we learned that one of our older widows, who had b... (original story)
Posted from Alliance News & Stories 130 days ago
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Doors have opened in Dakar, Senegal, for Alliance international workers to teach business courses in local universities, giving them opportunity to build bridges into the community that will bear the weight of truth. Also, health care needs of Senegalese people are addressed through a church-run di... (original story)
Posted from Alliance News & Stories 130 days ago
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Mi Esparanza (My Hope) church in Asunción, Paraguay, saw significant growth as it continued to used a variety of creative activities to reach out into the community because GCF-supported Alliance international workers, Forest and Sarah Schell and Bob and Joy Brougher are committed to reaching the ... (original story)
Posted from Alliance News & Stories 130 days ago
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Alliance workers in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia, have organized children’s educational centers in poor districts around the outskirts of the city. These centers are meeting felt needs of families in those areas where schools are overburdened and provide a business opportunity for believing educat... (original story)