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| Shobha's
eyes aren't dead yet. But they're dying. Driven into India's
sex industry by hunger, she has worked in Allahabad's
red-light district for years. She doesn't say whether
her father pushed her - or sold her - into the flesh trade. |
AIDS
Slavery
is alive and well around the world
Up
to 4 million women and children around the world are trafficked
into prostitution and slave labor each year.
Between
50,000 and 75,000 are smuggled into the United States. In
India, about 200 girls and women enter the trade every day.
There's
no doubt that prostitution helps fuel the worldwide AIDS epidemic.
Writer Erich Bridges gives you an up-close look at the trade
through the eyes of a courageous Christian couple who have
devoted themselves to rescuing its victims - and spreading
the love of Christ among Hindus and Muslims in India's "epicenter
of lostness."
Read
more.
Faces
of AIDS - A new Web resource on AIDS
• See the faces of AIDS.
•
Hear the stories of those who suffer and Christians who
seek to help them.
•
Use an interactive map to check out the worldwide scope
of AIDS.
•
Find out how you can pray and help those affected by AIDS.
Use
this multimedia Web site to discover the impact AIDS is having
on missions in some areas - and threatens to have in other
parts of the world. Take
one look and you'll want to tell others about this site.
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A
good start for the new year
Is
your church…
…prioritizing
missions and providing missions leadership (volunteer or staff)?
…praying
for missionaries and the unreached peoples of the world?
…providing
missions education, information, events and displays?
…promoting
cooperative missions giving?
…participating
in missions projects?
…producing
the missionaries for today and tomorrow?
…personalizing
missions by adopting IMB personnel?
…partnering
in missions by adopting an unreached people group?
If
you are, you may want to connect with like-minded churches
by joining the Global Priority Network. If not, our Church
Services Team will be glad to talk with you about ways you
can move your church into deeper involvement in God's kingdom.
Read
more and find a list of churches already in the network.
Call (800) 999-3113 to talk with someone about how your church
can move to a higher level of missions involvement.
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Resources
For the parents of missionaries
Saying
goodbye to children and grandchildren headed overseas for
missionary service isn't easy - even for the most fervent
missions supporter. This new book answers many of the questions
parents have when their children go to the mission field and
suggests ways they can be partners in their children's ministry.
Read
more.
We've
done the work for you
You
want to show your church members their missions dollars at
work - but don't have the time to track down the stories.
You wish your church could afford to print a colorful collection
of missions facts and stories to give members each month.
Wish no more. Order
our FREE monthly fliers and insert them in your church bulletins
or distribute through Sunday School classes. And keep reading
for a story from the February flier.
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Your
Cooperative Program gifts at work
Medical
ministry starting churches in India
Bangalore Baptist Hospital touches more than 100,000 patients
annually in Karnataka, India, and has led to 900 churches
started. The majority of Karnataka's 55 million people follow
Hinduism; only 1.9 percent claim Christianity. Workers ask
Southern Baptists to pray that a church or fellowship will
be planted within walking distance of every person in Karnataka
by 2025.
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