Several weekends a month the Rev. Eric Foley, co-founder of Seoul USA and sought-after expert on North Korean underground Christianity, speaks at conferences about persecuted Christians. The main question audiences ask: How can we pray for the North Korean underground church?
The city of Portsmouth, Va. has received nearly $50 million in HOPE VI federal grants to redevelop a blighted community and create affordable home ownership opportunities for its citizens.
The film Divided, a documentary on the problems of segregated youth ministry has been thrust into the national media, according to Scott Brown, Director of the National Center of Family-Integrated Churches (NCFIC).
Churches on this year’s Outreach 100 lists of the Largest and Fastest-Growing Churches in America are pursuing many of the same growth strategies and values, including worship locations at multiple sites, breaking into smaller groups throughout the week, and serving their local communities. The lists appear in Outreach magazine’s 2011 Outreach 100 Special Issue, published Sept. 15, 2011.
Operation Compassion has been monitoring Hurricane Irene since it was apparent the path she would take. Earlier this week preparations were made ready for her eventual landfall. Up and down the eastern seaboard, Operation Compassion and its network of disaster relief partners have been staging relief products for shipment and preparing disaster relief sites in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and New York.
“Our partners are ready to move,” according to David Lorency, president of Operation Compassion. “Everything is in place and ready at a moment’s notice.”
OC’s disaster relief partners, God’s Pit Crew, Mercy Chefs and the Chaplain’s Commission are ready with everything from heavy equipment for debris removal to mobile kitchens ready to feed thousands of hot meals to volunteers ready to assist. Product partners, Soles4Souls, Feed the Children, major television ministries and mega-church pastors have donated warehouse space just outside the hurricane area and are staging product.
“Operation Compassion has its plan ready to swing into action,” Lorency continued. “The deciding factor is Irene and where she will make her presence known.”
As with any disaster, Operation Compassion needs your financial help to be able to mobilize and respond with their resources. Please make a donation before Hurricane Irene hits the east coast.
Online Donations:
www.operationcompassion.org (givedirect button)
Mail or call your donations to:
Operation Compassion
114 Stuart Road, NE Suite 370
Cleveland, TN 37312
423.728.3932 Office
423.728.3958 Fax
www.operationcompassion.org
(Source: Operation Compassion)
