| 1. | | This article by CAFO President Jedd Medefind " tackles the issue of whether government or faith-based and other nonprofits should play the central role in aiding the destitute."
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| 2. | | This book tells the heartbreaking story of the many poor and underprivleged children in India. It also shares hope for their futures:
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| 3. | | While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor.
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| 4. | | Christians are among America’s most compassionate people. But we can do a better job responding to the complexity of poverty.
This great article from the President of World Vision not only ... |
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| 5. | | Passport through Darkness takes readers on Smith's journey to the deserts of Africa and the deserts of her own soul as she tries to live well as an imperfect American mom, crusade for justice for ... |
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| 6. | | This autobiography by Jean Erichsen tells the story of how she went from being a neglected, abused child to become an adoptive mother and an orphan advocate. For more information or purchase ... |
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| 7. | | Why would someone risk his safety, destroy his schedule, and become dirty and bloody to help a needy person of another race and social class? And why would Jesus tell us "Go and do likewise"? Like ... |
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| 8. | | "There must be more to the Christian life than this--more than church each Sunday and waving to my neighbors and giving some clothes to Goodwill when I go through my closet each spring."
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| 9. | | Recently Jeff Anderson, ACTION street children missionary in the Philippines, gave some guideline suggestions to a ministry in the Ukraine regarding beginning a ministry to street children. We ... |
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| 10. | | Some evangelicals talk as though personal evangelism and public justice are contradictory concerns, or, at least, that one is part of the mission of the church and the other isn’t. I think ... |
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| 11. | | Get the facts about child labor and how it affects impoverished children and their families.
One in six children 5 to 14 years old — about 16 percent of all children in this age group ... |
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| 12. | | For Love’s Sake weaves the real-life stories of two young women—Jessica J. Davis and Mary the mother of Jesus—into a supernatural adventure. Both women took big leaps of faith to journey deeper ... |
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| 13. | | According to the United Nations, more than one billion people live in urban slums, and this figure will double in the next 30 years. Put another way, one of every three people who lives in a city, ... |
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| 14. | | Bridges Out of Poverty takes the concepts of hidden rules of economic class and uses them to educate social workers, employers and community organizations about hte unique and sometimes hidden ... |
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| 15. | | In Awaiting a Savior, Aaron Armstrong reminds readers that even as we are responsible for pursuing biblical solutions to poverty, our hope for truly resolving it comes not from the good we do, but ... |
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