Three years after its first modules launched, Ezra Theological Course celebrates its first batch of graduates!
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A brand new ELWA Hospital is raising the standard of care for wealthy and under privileged Liberians alike with ground-breaking modern facilities.
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This visual representation of world population density helps explain why the mission of bringing Good News to the world is increasingly focussed on Asia.
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This May, Sports Friends has launched a month-long CAMPaign to provide 3,100 scholarships to send youth in Asia and Africa to a Sports Friends camp. These camps provide training to local coaches, build relationships between the local church and community, and invest in the youth. Will you join with Sports Friends to reach this goal?
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One year after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, causing massive loss of life, widespread homelessness and billions of dollars in damage, the nation continues to heal and rebuild. In Dhading, one of the districts most devastated by the quake, SIM and partner organization United Mission to Nepal (UMN) carry on with reconstruction work.
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Photo courtesy of Gordon Hector
SIM and MECO International are joining hands in a determined effort to drive the gospel forward as we work with churches and other organisations in the Middle East.
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A woman signs up to receive emergency food and supplies - Photo courtesy of UMN.
With significant financial aid from SIM and other agencies, United Mission to Nepal (UMN) has managed to distribute relief goods to 9,674 families badly affected by April’s earthquake and strong aftershocks in Nepal.
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Many people in Kathmandu are still living in makeshift shelters, like these discarded sewer pipes because of fears it is no longer safe "indoors". Photo by Gabriel Jens.
In the Lapa subdistrict food stores are dangerously depleted and staple maize crops have been “seriously damaged” by pests. But relief efforts are restricted to helicopter drops in more populated areas. Many from outlying villages continue to risk their lives walking treacherous paths to collect relief supplies.
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A fallen building in rural Dhading district. Photo courtesy of UMN.
12 May 2015 - Another significant earthquake - this time at magnitude 7.4 - has shaken Nepal today just as many were beginning to believe the aftershocks from April’s devastating quake were subsiding.
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Buildings destroyed after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that has rocked Nepal. Photo by Gabriel Jens
The true extent of the devastation wreaked by last month's earthquake in Nepal is slowly being realised as relief efforts finally expand to remote areas.
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Kathmandu: people camp in almost any available open space fearing aftershocks will topple more buildings. Photo by Gabriel Jens
Daily life is returning to "normal" in Nepal, after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Saturday, April 25, sent the country into a state of emergency. SIM personnel prepare to give aid to those most affected.
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Many patients are being treated in hallways and lobbies at Kathmandu's Patan hospital. Photo by Gabriel Jens
As the death toll in Nepal rises after the biggest earthquake in eighty years, medical personnel with SIM and partners are making their way to Kathmandu's Patan hospital to assist with the swelling number of earthquake victims arriving on re-opening roads.
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Rescue efforts are underway in Kathmandu where many people have been killed or injured. Photo by Gabriel Jens
All SIM personnel and local associates are safe and accounted for in Nepal after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and several strong aftershocks have left thousands dead and many more injured.
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Chinese minority children at school. - Photo courtesy of Peter Morgan
It seems inevitable that the most populous nation on earth would experience racial tension and the last few months have seen tensions escalate dramatically. But how can Christian cross cultural workers in China respond to racism when they find it in the Chinese church? Daisy Wu has chosen to speak up.
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Team Radical Grace from back left: Sutin Keereekaiwan, Jacqui Croxon, "Daa" Jidtida Srisakda, Mary Raikes, Kenneth Fleck; front, from left: Prasert "Daeng" Dechaboon, "Ann" Jutatip Dechaboon) - photo by Chad Loftis.
In spite of concerns it could be seen as a failure, leadership of Radical Grace, the South East Asian branch of HOPE for AIDS has been handed over to a Thai husband and wife team - both longtime champions of a more grace-filled approach to those living with HIV.
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Children at one of last year's Thai camps. Kids all over the world have the chance to make new friends and connect with Christian mentors at Sports Friends camps - picture by Cat Edwards.
"Fate is a 13-year-old girl from Ethiopia with a bright smile, always a giggle, and a quick, witty response. She is blind."
The Sports Friends camping season is upon us and we need your help to make the dreams of kids like Fate come alive.
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"A team of eight SIMers has returned to Western Samar in the Philippines to deliver building materials, school supplies, a generator, medical relief and much needed psychological support to survivors of “Super Typhoon” Haiyan in phase 2 of a 3 phase relief project...."
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Stretching out the hands of God’s grace to those on the margins of society is a key mission for the Radical Grace team in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It was a natural fit, then, to provide an educational program about the connection between broken relationships and HIV to young people living in the relationally difficult setting of the Mae Rim Juvenile Correction Facility.
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