Time, love help Baltimore children resist drug abuse
At the Christian Community Center in West Baltimore, a familiar chorus is heard every day across the playground area: "Mr. Tom! Mr. Tom!"
Community leaders increasingly help determine scope of work projects
EM has started an increased effort to let local community leaders determine the specific projects they need and see what can be done to support those needs, even if they fall outside the scope of a traditional short-term mission trip.
Storm-weary Gulf Coast residents in need of spiritual support
Though Hurricane Gustav was played down as a near-miss storm that largely spared the Gulf Coast, the flooding and consequent damage did deal a devastating blow to residents' morale.
Experience Mission teams build relationships with Portland refugees.
18 November 2008
Marsa fell in love when she was fifteen years old. “He had no goats,” she says. That means the man she loved couldn’t afford to offer her parents a dowry.
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Consider making a general donation
30 September 2008
In Junquillo, Honduras, many residents can’t afford to eat and don’t have access to running water. In Catadupa, Jamaica, children need a restroom for their kindergarten so they can avoid dangerous pit toilets. In Atlanta, children are in need of social programs to prevent them from falling into a violent gang culture. Help address these vital [...]
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A Summer Staffer shares her experience
28 August 2008
EM Summer Staffer Krista Jensen writes a letter to her friends describing her experience working with the poor in Atlanta this summer.
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Homes progress slowly in Pearlington, but God is there every step
10 August 2008
Sometimes it’s hard to understand why houses take so long to be completed, but with all the different steps – some which require a greater level of skill than others – and multiple inspections that must be passed before moving on to the next step, the lengthy process makes more sense. It had been around [...]
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Bellview Community Blesses Women in Ruiz
08 August 2008
Diane Andrews of Bellview Community Church has built her ministry out of encouraging women. She has spoken to women in churches throughout Colorado, the United States and the world. Not too long ago, she presented a message to missionary women in Thailand and most recently she decided to continue to share her message – a [...]
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Baltimore: City of the homeless
07 August 2008
Not long ago, I had the opportunity to go to a homeless community in the heart of Baltimore. I wouldn’t have expected it, but the park where the homeless gather is right next to the Metropolitan Police Station and lies on the property of St Vincent de Paul’s Catholic Church. Initially I couldn’t figure out [...]
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In Pearlington, some still homeless due to Katrina
05 August 2008
With the summer coming to a close in just a couple of weeks, we didn’t expect to be introduced to many new projects, especially on houses that had barely been touched since Katrina. That’s why meeting Wade came as such a surprise. Wade lives in the same neighborhood as Jeanine and Sonny, but until one [...]
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Creatively connecting with kids in Ruiz
30 July 2008
Jump rope, beads, pipe cleaners and more captured the children in Ruiz this week. Kids Club took place at the church in Ruiz where fifty children gathered for games, crafts and singing. The team from Kansas practiced their Spanish with the children through interactive activities and acting out the Bible story in a drama. The children [...]
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- Time, love help Baltimore children resist drug abuse
- Community leaders increasingly help determine scope of work projects
- Storm-weary Gulf Coast residents in need of spiritual support
- Consistency and love pay off in poverty-stricken trailer park in Atlanta
- Experience Mission launches International Exchange Program
- EM offers trips to Honduras, Belize in 2009
- Missionaries get mountaintop perspective in Costa Rica
- More of Mo’s photos from Jamaica
- Jamaica relationships highlight trips’ purpose
- Lack of funds still slows Katrina recovery
- Community contributions show love in Costa Rica (2)
- Arriving in West Virginia (2)
- Team Atlanta sees progress (2)
- Grace Church works to complete home (2)
- Controversial 'Tent City' draws praise, complaints (2)
- Visible problems a small part of poverty's full reach (2)
- Hitchhiking in Costa Rica (2)
- Mo's photos from Jamaica (2)
- West Virginia's Children (2)
- Missionaries get mountaintop perspective in Costa Rica (2)
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