I was reading coverage of Baltimore’s riots last night when I realized that “America” probably looks pretty scary in other countries’ news.
Maybe even as scary as “Africa” often seems to people over here.
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Baltimore, Ferguson, and “Africa”
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| Tags: Africa, America, Baltimore, Boko Haram, compassion, Ebola, fear, Ferguson, God, Prayer, understanding, violence |
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The Unpleasant Responsibility of Praying for Our Enemies
I keep avoiding writing this. It’s been sitting on my computer screen for days, fittingly unwelcome but reminding me of its unpleasant existence.
I have to pray for Boko Haram.
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| Tags: becoming more Christlike, Boko Haram, BringBackOurGirls, enemies, following Christ, healing, Jesus, Jonah, justice, love, Nigeria, Ninevah, Prayer, redemption, trusting God |
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Teaching life and livelihood for 20 years
The purpose of my trip to Nigeria in November was to cover the 20th anniversary of a computer school founded there by Dr. Anthony Petrillo, an SIM missionary, in partnership with ECWA, a Nigerian Christian denomination. This article tells the history of that partnership and will be the first-posted of several articles written for Dr. Petrillo’s ministry, TEN3.
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| Tags: Africa, Boko Haram, Christ, Christians, computer school, computers, ECWA, education, EICSI, God, Jesus, Missionary, missionary work, missions, Nigeria, SIM, TEN3 |
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The Heffron Family 