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Call your church to action for foreign assistance

By on January 23, 2013 in Church, World Poverty

Most Americans overestimate the percentage of the U.S. budget spent on foreign assistance. Here’s a video showing just how drastic the difference is between typical perceptions and the actual amount. (Spoiler alert: It’s less than 1% of the federal budget.)   Yet these programs are life-saving. According to our friends at ONE, “Thanks to the United [...]

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‘Tis the Season

By on October 31, 2012 in From Our Leadership, World Poverty

The season is upon us again.  Not the changing of the leaves. Not the very end of a hurricane period that seemed to have been a quiet one, only to strike with a vengeance in the eleventh hour.  Not the time of turkeys and pumpkins. No, the season that I am referring to comes only [...]

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