Did you know that every time there is an international sporting event, human beings are trafficked into the city where it is held so that they can be sold for commercial sex? Human sex trafficking is expected to increase in Canada next year
I think about her often – though I never see her anymore. Memories of our shared childhood linger. When I close my eyes I can distinctly picture her eyes, I can hear her laugh, I remember sharing soup during Junior Soldiers and I remember long bike rides. But most of all I think about the times we used to wrestle. Those times, rolling around on Continue Reading →
We are excited to let you know that we are in the midst of resourcing and promoting the Weekend of Prayer for Victims of Sex Trafficking. The weekend is happening on September 25-27, 2009. This weekend of prayer is commemorated internationally in all corners of the globe where The Salvation Army is at work.
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Prepared for group Bible studies. To view or download the materials click here.
Prepared for group Bible studies. To view or download the materials click here.
Set between a tiny village and the largest slum in Africa, comes a story of two remarkable grandmothers. A Grandmother’s Tribe is a 54-minute documentary that reveals the lives of countless grandmothers of Africa, left behind after the loss of their own children, who, with determination and tenderness are now responsible for the rearing of their orphaned grandchildren. • It is estimated that in sub-Saharan Africa, Continue Reading →
Well, it’s been a drizzly and cool Spring up here in Winnipeg, my home town.
Folks are not just getting restless, we’re getting mad. Somewhere deep in our bones we feel it’s just not RIGHT.
We had a cold winter. That, we’re used to. That, we expect. The universe is not doing anything it shouldn’t do when January is frigid in Winnipeg. The fact that we Prairie Continue Reading →
With the flurry of activity and worry around the new “swine flu” outbreak, people can be forgiven for thinking it’s no time for ‘ethics’, but from where I sit, pandemics have everything to do with ethics.
A pandemic tests the moral fibre of a community. Do we really care about our neighbors, and about the way in which we might help them in their time of Continue Reading →
The 10 Commandments, in TXT Spk: #3: No OMGs BY Cliff KuangFri Jun 5, 2009 at 5:59 PM The wits at McSweeney’s just posted a list of the 10 Commandments in text speak. RT@theLORD:
1. no1 b4 me. srsly.
2. dnt wrshp pix/idols
3. no omg’s
4. no wrk on w/end (sat 4 now; sun l8r)
5. pos ok - ur m&d r cool
6. dnt kill ppl
7. :-X only w/ m8
