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Faith groups curb Haiti work due to chaos, 2021 kidnapping

A year after 17 North American missionaries were kidnapped in Haiti, beginning a two-month ordeal before they ultimately went free, the agency that sent them hasn’t made a permanent return, and several other international groups have also scaled back their work there. The kidnapping ...

Footsteps to Follow: An urgent response to hunger

The United Nations Executive Director of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, recently warned the global village we call home, with nearly eight billion of God’s people, that an urgent response is needed. He basically indicated the clock is ticking if we are to avoid massive starvation. In the well-documented article carried by the Williamsport Sun-Gazette (September 25), as first reported by The Associated Press in its interview with Mr. Beasley, the need for food stuffs worldwide now stands at “345 million” (approximately nine to ten percent of the global ...

Footsteps to Follow: Speaking hope and encouragement

Inside my Sunday worship binder, I keep a handful of cards and notes that I have received over the last few years. Each one of them came at a significant time in my life. Inside one card, a friend wrote how much the previous Sunday’s service meant to her: the music, the Scripture passage. ...

Footsteps to Follow: Supplications and intercessions

The Epistle lesson for Sunday, Sept. 18, focuses on I Timothy 2:1-7. The books of I Timothy and II Timothy were two of the last letters written by the Apostle Paul while he was in Rome. Shortly thereafter he faced death by beheading. In the book, he referred to God as “Savior.” Paul saw ...