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03
Sep
This month, I’m excited to feature a ministry that we have personally supported for 14 years, Blood-N-Fire San Antonio. My friends, Mark and Susie Roye, started this ministry in downtown San Antonio in 1998. I go wayyyyy back with Mark and Susie.
Blood-N-Fire (BNF, for short) started in an old warehouse and organized volunteers into teams to walk the neighborhood block by block to get to know the people who lived in the not-so-glamorous area of downtown San Antonio, literally a five-minute drive from the tourist mecca of the River Walk. They began with block parties, food giveaways, summer activities for [ ... ]
Category: Christian Living, Helping the Least
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23
Jul
What childhood milestone do you take for granted? Learning to whistle? Going to school? Playing dress-up? Tutus and tiaras are common clothing in my house. We are fortunate to reasonably expect that our children will accomplish these goals and more. This is not the case in more than 40 countries around the world where access to medical care is scarce, at best.
In 2010, the GAVI Alliance, an international vaccine financing partnership, began a program to introduce pneumococcal vaccinations to more than 40 countries by 2015. Once at full capacity, the program could save the lives of three to four million [ ... ]
Category: Christian Living, Helping the Least, Parenting
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17
Jul
I have had an idea for a while about spotlighting non-profits and Christian ministries on my blog. I love to donate to organizations that are making a difference in real people’s life. The “big guys” might have a larger reach by having the staff to implement large scale projects, but there are a lot of smaller organizations that are doing the grunt work with little support. So, I’m excited to introduce a monthly series, “Helping the Least,” based on Matthew 25:36. Here is my first spotlight.
Derreck Kayongo with the Global Soap Project spoke at the Evo ’12 conference last week. [ ... ]
