Posted on August 11, 2010 at 8:08am.
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Thanks so much for your prayers for the CAC members who just finished serving at Camp Langano, Ethiopia with Sports Friends!
Here’s a coming home picture courtesy of Bob Roth who serves as the head of our ServeGlobal Prayer Team.
Posted on August 9, 2010 at 7:39am.
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This week Church at Charlotte, for the second time, is serving the women from the Salvation Army’s Center of Hope. We are hosting the overnight shelter at Providence United Methodist Church (if you know someone from PUMC, please say “thank you!”).
Please pray for the women and our volunteers throughout the week!
Julie Deuink, who his helping to spearhead this effort, included this quote from Mother Teresa in a recent email to the Center of Hope CAC volunteers and I thought it was well worth posting.
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere, people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
- Mother Theresa
God Bless,
RJ
Posted on August 5, 2010 at 12:52pm.
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We received a brief update from our ServeGlobal Team in Ethiopia today (thanks to the ServeGlobal Prayer Team)! The team is doing well and staying VERY busy.
We do want to share two specific prayer requests:
1. Pray for strength for the team.
2. Pray for the team as they share the gospel with the campers today!
God Bless,
RJ
Posted on August 2, 2010 at 7:59am.
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I wanted to share an article from NPR that highlights the issue of human trafficking withing the US. Many people believe that human trafficking occurs only in developing countries and definitely outside of our countries borders.
Erik Breitzke, who heads the human trafficking unit for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, says human trafficking is one of the most hidden crimes in the U.S.
“We’re dealing with foreign-born victims, who are often in the United States illegally, may not speak the language, come from a country where their cultural norms and mores are different or there may be social caste systems in place, and where law enforcement may be generally distrusted,” he says.
The State Department won’t give an estimate of how many victims there are right now in the U.S. But this woman is among about 300 people who last year received a visa specifically designated for human trafficking victims.
The State Department says the U.S. has to do a better job at identifying these victims. Breitzke says it’s a matter of educating law enforcement about what to look for.
“It’s very easy to understand force in terms of a physical assault, but what about psychological coercion? But what about a threat against a family member, what about a threat against a child who’s left in a home country?” he says. “We want to make the light bulb go off and to recognize that something might be going on here that they need to follow up with.”
