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 At 1:34am an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 hit Chile, 200 miles from Santiago. The Diaz-Ramos had to evacuate their apartment but were not injured. | |
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 Dozens
of inquisitive brown eyes fixed upon me—a clueless, solitary, Caucasian
man. Struggling to find words appropriate to the situation, I merely
said, “Hi, I’m Matt.” Moments earlier I had been thrust into a 6th
grade classroom... | |
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 I
will never forget the day we traveled away from Yangon to a local
village and visited a small church. The pastor of the church had
recently walked away from everything... | |
| | It’s been a month since the news hit that there had been a
magnitude 7 earthquake that hit Haiti. Our first concern was for the five NMSI
families that live and minister in Haiti... | |
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 "Most people have their first contact with overseas missions through a short-term project or an internship, which we want to be a life-changing experience." —Joe Belzer
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 Selissa, a young university student from
Pignon, was in Port-au-Prince studying at the time of the
earthquake. He had to jump
from three story building to save his life. All his
friends perished in the building. Upon returning home to Pignon, Selissa gave his life to Christ.
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 Some great news which has come from this tragedy already. Today (Monday), I have baptized two of our youth. They were very grateful to God for protecting them in the earthquake and did not want to wait another day to give their lives to him... | |
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 Dear NMSI Family, I’m sure you’ve been following with great interest and concern the
developments in Haiti. Thankfully, we have heard from three of our
four families in country and we trust God with the protection and
safety of Jean-Martin Etienne, from whom we still have not heard... | |
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 Tuesday
evening a 7.0 earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Already the poorest
nation in the Western hemisphere, the latest reports coming out
of major news sources paint a grim picture. Widespread destruction
throughout Port-au-Prince, including the partial collapse of the
Presidential Palace, evidences a long recovery road. | |
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 I love to create
photographic reminders of what I see when I travel to mission posts
around the world. Somehow the graphic representation of a “moment in
time” never fails to bring me right back to the thought I experienced
when I took the picture... | |
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 In Myanmar, especially within the church communities, Christmas is a
more public event than a family gathering, as it is in the West. The
traditional mainline churches celebrate the Christmas more like Western
ways, on Christmas day, | |
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 In Germany, the four weeks leading up to Christmas are quite important. This time is called “Advent”, which comes from the Latin advenire which means “coming toward”... | |
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