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New members of faith-based initiatives council announced
Gov. Tim Pawlenty recently announced the appointment of 15 members to the Governor’s Council on Faith and Community Service Initiatives. All are appointed to two-year terms that expire Jan. 4, 2010. Kim Ketola (formerly Jeffries) will once again chair the GCFCSI. Ketola hosts “Along the Way” on Faith 900 KTIS AM.
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Minnesota Global Day of Prayer 2008 gathering focuses on diversity, unity
David Bryant remembers well the role the Twin Cities played in the international Concerts of Prayer movement. “The very first city-wide, multi-denominational ‘Concert of Prayer Rally’ ever held was at the old Minneapolis Civic Center in 1987,” said Bryant.
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Twin Cities agencies help women choose pregnancy over abortion
Mother’s Day is a special day for moms. Yet, it can be difficult for women facing unplanned or challenging pregnancies. If pregnancy includes stress and uncertainty, abortion is not the easy answer. Other options exist that include parenting, or adoption by one of the many families wanting children.
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Venture Expeditions organizes Ride:Well bike tour for Blood:Water Mission
In 2002, three students from North Central University in Minneapolis decided to bike from Seattle to Mauntauk, N.Y., to raise funds and awareness for a church plant in Argentina. Calling themselves Venture, their goal was to raise $10,000. That year the team biked 3,700 miles, raised $17,000, and the Minneapolis-based adventure travel ministry Venture Expeditions was born.
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Chinese rearrest businessman for printing Christian materials
Shi Weihan, a Chinese bookstore owner in Beijing, has been rearrested for publishing Bibles and Christian literature during a time when a shortage of such materials has been reported in China.
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Minnesota missionary family survives Congo jet crash
Teenage daughter was a lifesaver, helped clear path for other survivors through side of plane
A 14-year-old Seventh-day Adventist lay missionary, April Mosier from Dodge City, Minn., helped saved an untold number of lives April 15 in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, during the fiery crash of a DC-9. The young woman, was traveling with her mother, father, and 3-year-old brother from Goma to Kisangani, Congo, where her older brother Keith, 24, has begun a mission project.
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Operation Mobilization’s Verwer becomes advocate of pro-life movement
Francis Schaeffer, the great 20th Century apologist, poured himself into the pro-life movement in the last years of his life—leading peaceful anti-abortion protest marches and using his voice to speak out for the unborn.
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Lack of fuel grounds missionary planes
A shortage of aviation fuel has grounded missionary pilots with Mission Aviation Fellowship, leaving 150 air strips currently without service. The ministry maintains a fleet of 52 aircraft, serving more than 800 Christian and non-profit agencies in remote areas, as well as thousands of isolated people in Africa, Asia, Eurasia and Latin America.
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CULTURE WATCH
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Music News
MercyMe releases exclusive iTunes project
MercyMe spent a day in the studio last fall recording their “iTunes Original,” a collection of six exclusive new recordings, in-depth interviews with frontman Bart Millard and key tracks from MercyMe's previous releases.
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TobyMac, Casting Crowns win most Doves
TobyMac won artist of the year, Casting Crowns took home group of the year honors and Mark Hall of Casting Crowns won four individual honors during the 39th annual Gospel Music Association Dove Awards April 23.
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OPINION
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Bryan Malley
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On the phone with the Internet company
“The waiting is the hardest part.” – Tom Petty
OK, so musician Tom Petty probably didn’t coin that phrase. He probably wasn’t even the first to utter those words, but since “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits” was one of the first CDs I owned, his voice is the first I hear when I think those words to myself. And how true they are.
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Wayne
Pederson
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Christians should care about health care reform in America
The American health care industry is a mess. Even doctors agree that the medical environment is in dysfunction. Recently I met a former senator who was chairing a White House committee to study the state of medical care in our nation. This normally positive congressman expressed his complete pessimism about turning the situation around.
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Israeli Supreme Court sides with Messianic Jews
The Supreme Court of Israel has ruled that Messianic Jews have the same rights regarding automatic citizenship as Jews who do not believe in Jesus as the Messiah.
The case was brought by 12 applicants who had been denied citizenship primarily because they were Jewish believers in Jesus. Most of them had received letters saying they would not receive citizenship because they "commit missionary activity," according to an e-mail circulated by Calev Myers, founder and chief counsel of The Jerusalem Institute of Justice.
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Christians in India concerned about new anti-conversion law
The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in India's Gujarat state has implemented an "anti-conversion" law passed in 2003, increasing fears among Christians that it will open the door to false accusations by Hindu extremists.
India's Freedom of Religion Acts, referred to as anti-conversion laws, now have been implemented in five of India's 28 states. The laws seek to curb religious conversions made by "force," "fraud" or "allurement." But Christians and human rights groups say that in reality the laws obstruct conversion generally, as Hindu nationalists invoke them to harass Christian workers with spurious arrests and incarcerations.
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