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9 Steps for Stronger Global Partnerships – Step 2
Step 1 was Recognizing the need Step 2 – Providing moral support Having invested my career as a cross-cultural health care missionary, I offer these comments after reading the second chapter of Neal Pirolo’s book. What is moral support comprised of? What is all included in the commissioning process? All too often after a commissioning…
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9 Steps for Stronger Global Partnerships
“Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are, who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God. For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting…
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Christmas With the Shepherds
Luke 2:8-20 The stories in the Bible of David defending his sheep against wild animals seemed cool. It becomes real when a shepherd knocks on your door with an inch long thorn stuck in his heal. He was camped on a hillside for the night, with thorny branches surrounding the sheep and goats. All of…
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Inadvertently omitted
My deepest apologies – on the most recent article for the Advent Journal, I omitted the author of that submission. “A Christ-less Christmas” was submitted by Joe and Denise Goossen, retired global partners with Avant serving close to 40 years in various places including Brazil and a number of former Soviet bloc countries. We appreciate…
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A Christ-less Christmas
Living in several countries of the former Soviet Union for many years, we could see how thecommunist Soviet system tried to erase Christmas for 70 years. There was no God so there wasno birth of Jesus. New Year’s Eve was the huge celebration. Father Frost and the Snow Maiden were the prominent figures who brought…






