On a Mission: Matt McCarty dribbles for Haiti ministry
HAITI (WordNews.org) Oct. 8, 2012 – For the past three summers, Matt McCarty has traveled to Haiti on short-term mission trips, working in orphanages and providing education to mothers in an effort to keep families together. “Each time I have gone to Haiti, God has really stretched me spiritually,” McCarty said. In a few weeks […]
Read More →On a Mission: David Worcester of Connect Pointe Ministries
ALBANY, New York (WordNews.org) Sept. 18, 2012 – David Worcester started Connect Pointe Ministries earlier this year out of a “desire to see young people come to know Christ.” “I have a passion to see the church change in a direction that encourages young people in their faith,” said Worcester, executive director of Connect Pointe. […]
Read More →On a mission: Jason Cooper of Jason Cooper Ministries
SCHENECTADY, N.Y (WordNews.org) Sept. 16, 2012 – Jason Cooper said he started Jason Cooper Ministries after seeing leaders be “one-man” shows, something he says leads to “exhaustion, frustration and burnout. “Ephesians 4 gives us a list of leadership gifts given to the church for health, growth and success,” he said. “The church has not utilized […]
Read More →College ministry leader: ‘Shift the campus, you’ll shift the world’
COLONIE, N.Y. (WordNews.org) Sept. 11, 2012 — Jeremy Story speaks rapidly about his vision to change the culture of America, one campus at a time. There’s a sense of urgency in his voice. And yet, he’s been doing this full-time for nearly half his life. At 37, he has 18 years under his belt leading […]
Read More →UnashamedImpact: A social media revival
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (WordNews.org) July 31, 2012 – The buzz started happening Saturday as @UnashamedImpact started trending on Twitter. People started to jump on board and shout out where they were Tweeting from, and where they were not ashamed. Today the group has nearly 1,400 Twitter followers. The person who launched the movement, Brittney Moses, […]
Read More →Ministries deploy chaplains to Colorado and New Mexico as wildfires rage
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WordNews.org) June 28, 2012 — A team of chaplains from the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team is in New Mexico and Colorado to provide emotional and spiritual care to those responding to the raging fires. The chaplains are located in Ruidoso/Capitan area of New Mexico and Fort Collins, Colo. According to news reports, […]
Read More →Mission Aviation Fellowship makes first landing at new Congo airstrip
BUNIA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, (WordNews.org) June 13, 2012 — Mission Aviation Fellowship made its first landing at the new Zobia airstrip to deliver medical supplies in remote parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). That June 9 landing has been followed by several others. The medication MAF is delivering is to […]
Read More →Video highlights persecution of religious minorities
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (WordNews.org) May 1, 2012 – Majed El Shafie, who once living under a death sentence for converting to Christianity while living in Egypt, is now working to highlight the lives of other persecuted Christians worldwide. Shafie, who escaped to Israel and now lives in Canada, is the subject of a just-released documentary, “Freedom […]
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