Many charities have been responding to the destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey. Many will continue to respond over the coming months and years of recovery. One estimate is that 200,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed by the flood. Of these, 80% were not covered by flood insurance sin...
United Methodist churches in Iowa have also lost insurance, according to the Iowa Annual Conference, in the aftermath of severe weather in the area. The Rev. Ron Carlson, treasurer of the Iowa conference, said that both small rural churches and larger churches have been affected. Carlson said ...
But God came through for me this year, around February, I started going to Church. In my sister church they had a program for women praying for the fruit of the womb and I followed her to her church, while praying, the pastor came to me and said “Sister who did this to you?” ...
I was called to start churches and had just discovered the "prayer meeting truth" in Acts. So I started a prayer meeting - the first one I ever attended. In came an elderly Methodist one night. When he prayed I detected something new. "I have never heard praying like that," I thought...
We respond to political or economic stagnation with rage at the stupidity of those who lead us; we are unwilling to countenance (as our ancestors once did) that human societies are hugely complex machines. The unhappiness of relationships is quickly ascribed to being with the wrong person – as...
good.In his 2012 book," Harmful Charity:How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Solve the Problem)," Robert Lupton,an experienced social worker of 40 years of community work in inner-city Atlanta,argues that charity must not do for the poor what they ...
As the son of man I am fragile, I am tempted, I am afraid, I am insecure, but as the son of God I belong to the ages. And there is nothing that you can do to me that my Father in heaven has not approved.” We love that, it makes us weep inside and we get closer to it...
so the likelihood is we are now over the normal Santa Rally and back to a more normal trading market. The real risk I have mentioned over the past several weeks are only getting worse. Israel is now doing what the US should have done, but Biden was afraid to do- they have killed top...
respond to disasters across the United States and around the world. We also conduct community outreach across the country. We do about fifty of them every year. And that’s where we bring together churches, businesses, civic organizations, government agencies. We bring them together to real...
This organization is known and supported by a wide majority of churches in America. They do not shy from their Christian message and have very high scores from independent charity review groups. You can’tsponsor a childindividually, but you can sponsor projects. They also serve children in ove...