By NORMA KING
Special to The Star
When Donna Dunn describes the people of Guatemala as “so stinking happy,” it’s with admiration and a little envy.
“I would be too if I lived there,” she said.
Dunn spent a week this summer in Lemoa, Guatemala, at an orphanage. It was her fourth trip.
Eighteen youths and four adults from Liberty United Methodist Church traveled with Dunn on a church mission. They left their cell phones, TVs and MP3 players at home — and didn’t really miss them.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Parishioners to embark on mission to help Guatemalan orphans
By Lauren O. Kidd • TOMS RIVER BUREAU • October 1, 2008
TOMS RIVER — Parishioners of St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church will embark on the church's first mission trip Thursday, when they leave for the Hogar Rafeal Ayau Orphanage in Guatemala City.
The Rev. Paul Pappas, who has visited the orphanage on his own for a decade, hopes the mission will be the first of many for his congregation. He said he wants his congregation to take part in annual missions to help people in different parts of the world.
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TOMS RIVER — Parishioners of St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church will embark on the church's first mission trip Thursday, when they leave for the Hogar Rafeal Ayau Orphanage in Guatemala City.
The Rev. Paul Pappas, who has visited the orphanage on his own for a decade, hopes the mission will be the first of many for his congregation. He said he wants his congregation to take part in annual missions to help people in different parts of the world.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Children affected by HIV/AIDS need community care
2008-10-07 11:56:33
By Peter Tindwa
It is very sad and disturbing to note from many regional and global reports that Africa, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, including Tanzania is leading in the infections of HIV/AIDS. Staff writer Peter Tindwa writing for the Association of Journalists Against AIDS in Tanzania (AJAAT) together with the United Nations Children`s Fund (UNICEF) sheds light on importance of interventions to support children affected by HIV/AIDS:
Available statistics from the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare through the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) show that Tanzania has at least 930,000 most vulnerable children, most of whom are affected by AIDS and living in households which are below the Tanzanian poverty line.
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At GO!'s House of Faith Orphanage (HOFO) we currently have 3 children of 19 children who are HIV/AIDs positive. These children require additional care, but can not be turned away based on this condition. We can do more, but it is going to take an effort community by community, project by project. Will you help us?
www.globalorphanrelief.org
By Peter Tindwa
It is very sad and disturbing to note from many regional and global reports that Africa, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, including Tanzania is leading in the infections of HIV/AIDS. Staff writer Peter Tindwa writing for the Association of Journalists Against AIDS in Tanzania (AJAAT) together with the United Nations Children`s Fund (UNICEF) sheds light on importance of interventions to support children affected by HIV/AIDS:
Available statistics from the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare through the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) show that Tanzania has at least 930,000 most vulnerable children, most of whom are affected by AIDS and living in households which are below the Tanzanian poverty line.
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At GO!'s House of Faith Orphanage (HOFO) we currently have 3 children of 19 children who are HIV/AIDs positive. These children require additional care, but can not be turned away based on this condition. We can do more, but it is going to take an effort community by community, project by project. Will you help us?
www.globalorphanrelief.org
Friday, October 3, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
GO! Cornerstones | "Righteousness & Love"
Of Faith, Hope, & Love
October 2, 2008
by Scott A. Nordstrom
Do you ever read something and just wonder if there is any hidden message? Maybe in your reading lies a truth that surpasses all understanding? I recently read a passage that was such a message and just maybe a gateway to something much more important for you and me.
Proverbs 21:21 -He who pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor. (NIV)
For me this holds great promise and there are so many things that arise out of this passage. I think that the encouraging word for me is the notion of the word pursues. The word here may not imply accomplishment, but merely the act of continued effort to capture or overtake. You might say that we are engaged in the continued effort to become righteous and or a place or state of love. I am encouraged by the proposition to pursue with no predetermined expectations, but only to find life, prosperity and honor in the process.
The next item in the passage that demands my consideration is the word righteousness and whether this concept is somehow connected to love. My dictionary indicates that righteousness is “the quality or state of being righteous”. Righteousness is somehow moral conduct. You might say the process of being right (certainly this is something I should know about). This begs the question of the deeper meaning of righteous. From my research righteous can be describes as morally justified, or upright without guilt or sin. You might transcend a religious definition and describe righteous as with virtue or morality. So righteousness becomes the state or conduct of being moral, upright, and without guilt. Hmmmm….. I won’t speak for you, but for me this is a real stretch. I know that the past does not equal the future, but even for me today -to consider righteousness is difficult, but according to the passage I am merely to pursue.
The word love in this passage is more closely associated with an action than a feeling. The original Hebrew uses the word mercy rather than the word love. The meaning in this passage points toward God and is an act of kindness –a good deed. For me, and this is not stretch, if you show this kindness to your fellow man, or you do something good for them, this act is ultimately toward God. And again in this passage, we refer you back to the word pursue.
Look at the reward here! As we pursue to become right or correct and in this process we show love or do good deeds to others, we will realize life, prosperity and honor.
If in your spiritual walk, if all you were able to gain was life, prosperity, and honor -what more would you need? Today is the day to start living by beginning the pursuit!
Peace, and be Blessed!
October 2, 2008
by Scott A. Nordstrom
Do you ever read something and just wonder if there is any hidden message? Maybe in your reading lies a truth that surpasses all understanding? I recently read a passage that was such a message and just maybe a gateway to something much more important for you and me.
Proverbs 21:21 -He who pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor. (NIV)
For me this holds great promise and there are so many things that arise out of this passage. I think that the encouraging word for me is the notion of the word pursues. The word here may not imply accomplishment, but merely the act of continued effort to capture or overtake. You might say that we are engaged in the continued effort to become righteous and or a place or state of love. I am encouraged by the proposition to pursue with no predetermined expectations, but only to find life, prosperity and honor in the process.
The next item in the passage that demands my consideration is the word righteousness and whether this concept is somehow connected to love. My dictionary indicates that righteousness is “the quality or state of being righteous”. Righteousness is somehow moral conduct. You might say the process of being right (certainly this is something I should know about). This begs the question of the deeper meaning of righteous. From my research righteous can be describes as morally justified, or upright without guilt or sin. You might transcend a religious definition and describe righteous as with virtue or morality. So righteousness becomes the state or conduct of being moral, upright, and without guilt. Hmmmm….. I won’t speak for you, but for me this is a real stretch. I know that the past does not equal the future, but even for me today -to consider righteousness is difficult, but according to the passage I am merely to pursue.
The word love in this passage is more closely associated with an action than a feeling. The original Hebrew uses the word mercy rather than the word love. The meaning in this passage points toward God and is an act of kindness –a good deed. For me, and this is not stretch, if you show this kindness to your fellow man, or you do something good for them, this act is ultimately toward God. And again in this passage, we refer you back to the word pursue.
Look at the reward here! As we pursue to become right or correct and in this process we show love or do good deeds to others, we will realize life, prosperity and honor.
If in your spiritual walk, if all you were able to gain was life, prosperity, and honor -what more would you need? Today is the day to start living by beginning the pursuit!
Peace, and be Blessed!
An experiment in orphan care in Russia
International Herald Tribune
By Michael Schwirtz
Published: October 1, 2008
KALUGA REGION, Russia: Standing in a row, sweating in the bright sun, a group of boys hammer into the outer wall of a partially built log cabin. Nearby, two others paint a picnic table, while another pack of children scurry by dressed in green tunics, wooden swords drawn for a play battle.
Work and play often commingle in Kitezh, an experimental orphan community about 300 kilometers, or 190 miles, southwest of Moscow that combines features of an orphanage with those of foster care. At first glance it can seem more akin to a summer camp than a sanctuary for abused and neglected children.
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By Michael Schwirtz
Published: October 1, 2008
KALUGA REGION, Russia: Standing in a row, sweating in the bright sun, a group of boys hammer into the outer wall of a partially built log cabin. Nearby, two others paint a picnic table, while another pack of children scurry by dressed in green tunics, wooden swords drawn for a play battle.
Work and play often commingle in Kitezh, an experimental orphan community about 300 kilometers, or 190 miles, southwest of Moscow that combines features of an orphanage with those of foster care. At first glance it can seem more akin to a summer camp than a sanctuary for abused and neglected children.
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