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What would your teenager do for an iPad?

May 11, 2012 by Aaron Leave a Comment

Last month, I finally broke down and bought an iPad (refurbished iPad 2 for $349!!) as prices dropped with the release of the new model. I am really anal retentive about my electronics and have to make sure I need them and that they are going to serve the purpose that I expect from them. I know I probably should chill out, but that’s what happens when you have high expectations and not that much money. As I was doing research about the iPad and whether or not I could travel solo with it, I ran across some crazy news. 1. A 17 year old named Wang sold his kidney to buy the new iPad and the iPhone 4s that came out earlier this year. Five people were arrested including the doctor and “organ broker”. The youth received $3500 for the kidney, which was sold for $35,000. …
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Filed Under: General, Newsworthy Tagged With: adolescence, culture, current events, global needs, gospel, parents, poverty, relationships, youth ministry

Childhood Marriage – a reality for millions

April 25, 2012 by Angie Leave a Comment

I have a twelve-year-old daughter. She loves to dance and sing and act. She is a free spirited girl. I still call her my baby. Today I read a statistic that makes my heart hurt. According to the United Nations website, in rural Yemen the average age of marriage for girls was 12-13 years old. Twelve…married? That is a startling reality. But child marriage, defined as marriage before the age of 18, is not that uncommon in the rural developing world even outside of Africa. In fact, South Asia has the highest percentage of child marriages. In India and Bangladesh the percentage of girls wed before reaching what we would consider “adulthood” is 50%. According to Unicef, “Marrying girls under 18 years old is rooted in gender discrimination, encouraging premature and continuous child bearing and giving preference to boys’ education. Child marriage is also a strategy for economic survival as families marry …
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Filed Under: Global Needs Tagged With: adolescence, bangladesh, childhood marriage, culture, education, global health issue, global youth, poverty

Would you like to start a college in India?

March 2, 2012 by Aaron Leave a Comment

During the last year, we have been talking with several different ministries in India about partnership opportunities. There are some wonderful ministries that God is working through in India and this year we will be visiting some of them to learn and look for direction about moving forward. We are very excited since the need in India is so great. Only about 2% of the country is Christian, where more than half of the 1.2 billion people living there are under the age of 25 years old. There are few places where the global youth ministry opportunity is greater. As I was reading the news the other day, the following headline slapped me right in the face “In India, the challenge of building 50,000 colleges”. I read the article and learned that India is trying to solve the problem of the need to educate more than 100 million young people over the next ten years. At the moment a mere 17% of their graduates are immediately …
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Filed Under: Global Needs, Newsworthy Tagged With: Bible College, campus ministry, church, global needs, india, job creation, opportunities, partnership, poverty, students

What If you only had $1 a day?

February 16, 2012 by Ryan Leave a Comment

Did you ever see an episode of “30 Days” that aired from 2005 to 2008 on FX? If not you missed out on Morgan Spurlock (better known for the documentary “Super Size Me”) immerse himself in something for 30 days. Episodes ranged from living on minimum wage for 30 days to spending 30 days in prison. He actually only spent 25 days because most prisoners in Virginia serve only 85% of their sentence. Like Morgan Spurlock’s “30 Days” I’ll be living off $1 a day for food for the full 29 days of February. I will be joining 2.7 billion people in the world today who live on $2.50 or less a day. Last month I was traveling a lot raising support for Mary and my ministry in Myanmar. In the midst of my travels I visited one of my best friends, Matt Hickman, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Matt has a huge heart for the poor and is planning to start an organization in the next year and a half called “truth be told” that will …
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Filed Under: General, Global Youth Worker Stories Tagged With: current events, global needs, holistic needs, poverty, Southeast Asia, unemployment

Can’t Alleviate Poverty Without….

December 29, 2011 by B Sue Leave a Comment

About 1.7 billion people are estimated to live in absolute poverty today and almost half the world — over three billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day. With few resources to meet their basic needs, youth who are in poverty are trying to make ends meet in order to survive. This is a deadly disease and is a widespread pandemic. And believe it or not, income differentials are widening, which means the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer. Poverty is persistent, deadly and breeds hopelessness. But the local church is even more persistent breaking down the walls of impoverished people. In Southeast Asia, global youth workers are creating an entrepreneurship school. In Zambia, youth now have access to sustainable jobs and better farming techniques through youth worker training. In Malawi, youth are given HIV education in secondary schools, and the youth workers are empowering the youth …
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Filed Under: General, Global Needs Tagged With: church, global youth, holistic needs, poverty, relationship, youth

Poverty and Sexuality Education

March 22, 2011 by Helen Leave a Comment

Our team read this article about poverty and sexuality education earlier this month. Take a look and see what you have to say about it. A couple of our team's email responses are also included below for your perusal. Enjoy! …
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Filed Under: Newsworthy Tagged With: community, holistic needs, poverty

The Girl Effect

January 26, 2011 by Aaron Leave a Comment

Ryan Russell, our Director of Training and Networking, shared this video with me. It's about the reality of girls around the world and a simple but powerful process to deal with the issues they face. It talks about early marriage and pregnancy, the lack of access to education and health. Check it out. Not only is it very informative but one of the best animation style videos I have seen in a long time. …
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Filed Under: Global Needs Tagged With: poverty, prayer, videos

Homeless Youth on the Rise

November 14, 2010 by Aaron Leave a Comment

Recently I saw a episode of a show that I have started watching called World of Jenks. It is documentary series on MTV and is very interesting. The episode that I watched Highlighted the story of Danielle, a 22 year old homeless girl. Here is photo of her with Jenks. I really felt like I had a good look into the issue and saw the pain and potential of Danielle. A recent article that I read that cited the following statistic "Two million people between the ages of 18 and 24 become homeless each year. It's the fastest growing segment of homeless population in America." You can read the article here. Here are some questions that come to my mind as I think about this issue: So if this is the case in the United States where we invest a lot if money in research and have so many resources at our disposal, how does the rest of the world's youth fair in this area? Are there more homeless youth in less developed counties or is there …
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Filed Under: Global Needs Tagged With: global youth, poverty, prayer

Will Work for Money

October 18, 2010 by Helen Leave a Comment

According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), there is an estimated 152 million young people who work but remain in extreme poverty. Youth in lower income countries are more vulnerable to suffer the impact of the unemployment crisis, where there is less social protection to provide for basic needs. The high rates of underemployment and unemployment could potentially result in a progressive loss of workers’ skills, exclusion of the unemployed from the productive economy, separated families due to searches for work, loss of hope of making a decent honest living, decreased social cohesion, and ultimately, dangers to national peace and stability. By the end of 2009, the number of economically active unemployed youth ages 15 to 24 had reached 81 million—the highest number ever. It is projected that the global youth unemployment rate will increase to 13.1 percent by the end of 2010. In order to break the cycle of poverty …
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Filed Under: Global Needs Tagged With: poverty, prayer

What would your teenager do for an iPad?

Childhood Marriage – a reality for millions

Would you like to start a college in India?

What If you only had $1 a day?

Can’t Alleviate Poverty Without….

Poverty and Sexuality Education

The Girl Effect

Homeless Youth on the Rise

Will Work for Money

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