Mission, Ministry, & Contemporary Culture

In the Muslim world, creationism is on the rise - The Boston Globe

Three weeks ago, with much fanfare, a team of scientists unveiled the fossil skeleton of Ardi, a 4-foot-tall female primate who lived and died 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. According to her discoverers, Ardi - short for Ardipithecus ramidus, her species - is our oldest known ancestor. She predated Lucy, the fossilized Australopithecus afarensis that previously had claimed the title, by 1.2 million years. READ MORE at www.boston.com

Missionary Focus Archive - Essentials

Setting the Captives Free

It was the last place anyone expected a revival to begin. Travel to what was once one of the toughest prisons in America and see how God is using Robert Toney, a Southern Baptist chaplain, to help turn convicts into converts.

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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Thousands still trapped by quake

Thousands still trapped by quake

The moments after a sports hall roof collapsed at karate practice in Padang

Almost 3,000 people are still trapped under rubble following Wednesday's powerful earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, officials say.

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Manila's Christians Use Facebook for Disaster Reports | Liveblog | Christianity Today

October 1, 2009 9:07PM

Manila's Christians Use Facebook for Disaster Reports

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Relief Groups Respond to Typhoon Ondoy | Liveblog | Christianity Today

Worldwide, Christian groups intiiate emergency aid to Metro Manila

Timothy C. Morgan

Today, relief groups, many of them Christian, are raising funds for emergency relief work in the aftermath of the deadly typhoon in Metro Manila, Philippines.

Here is a heart-breaking You Tube video:

Operation Blessing reports:

Disaster relief specialists Operation Blessing International (OBI) are responding to Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana), which dumped 13.5 inches of rainfall --an entire month's worth-- in just six hours, leaving the city 80 percent flooded. News reports confirm over 100 deaths so far and many people are stranded on rooftops throughout Manila as roadways are submerged. An estimated 300,000 residents are displaced. OBI has an office in Manila and has worked extensively in the Philippines for over a decade. Under the direction of Dr. Kim April C. Pascual, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Operation Blessing International Philippines, the charity has earned the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) of the Year by the Philippines government for 4 out of the last 6 years.

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Baptist Press - Post-tsunami aid heads to Amn. Samoa - News with a Christian Perspective

Posted on Sep 30, 2009 | by Mickey Noah

PAGO, PAGO, American Samoa (BP)--A Baptist-sponsored Seafarers' Center has been lost in the destruction by a deadly tsunami that struck several islands in the South Pacific on Tuesday, Sept. 29.

"Our Seafarers' Center is a total loss," reported Veryl Henderson, executive director of the Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention in Honolulu.

A North American Mission Board missionary directs the center in Pago Pago Harbor in American Samoa and lives there his wife and three children. But Joeli Sovea, a NAMB Mission Service Corps missionary, his wife Tupe and their three children, Joel-Samuel, JoHannah and Joreignna, are now without a home.

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