Source: 30 Day Hindu Prayer Focus
At the age of 15 Loma was offered a new life away from her homeland of Nepal; it seemed like a release. Married as a child, she had already borne–and lost–two children. Her husband had given up on her and was looking for a new wife, while his family ridiculed [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Jul
2007
26
Prayer Focus: India’s Sex Trade
Published by 2 years, 7 months ago in India and Prayer Focus. 0 CommentsJul
2007
25
Good intentions are not enough
Published by 2 years, 7 months ago in Business as Mission and Wisdom. 0 CommentsAid not only crowds out local entrepreneurship, it makes governments lazy and deprives countries of the incentive to build effective institutions. Public revenue derived from taxes makes governments directly responsible to their citizens. Free money builds white elephants and bloated bureaucracies, it being far easier to create new government jobs than implement policies to fight [...]
Jul
2007
24
Doing business in India
Published by 2 years, 7 months ago in Business as Mission. 0 CommentsIndia
Region: South Asia
Income category: Low income
Population: 1,094,583,000
GNI per capita (US$): 720.00
Doing business in India
This page provides a snapshot of each country’s aggregate ranking on the ease of doing business and on each of the ten topics that comprise the overall ranking. Data is also provided for each country for all the 10 topics covered in [...]
Jul
2007
24
Won’t you be a neighbor?
Published by 2 years, 7 months ago in Business as Mission and Wisdom. 0 Comments“We become neighbours when we are willing to cross the road for one another. There is so much separation and segregation: between black people and white people, between gay people and straight people, between young people and old people, between sick people and healthy people, between prisoners and free people, between Jews and Gentiles, Muslims [...]
Jul
2007
18
Prayer Focus: Delhi & North India
Published by 2 years, 7 months ago in India and Prayer Focus. 0 CommentsFrom the 30 Day Hindu Prayer Focus booklet:
No other part of the world has such a concentration of unevangelized people as north India. the North Indian Ganges plain, with its 360 million people in the states of Haryana, Hinachal Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, is the Hindi-speaking heartland of India. Although the area contains [...]
Jul
2007
15
A Cross Cultural Experience, at Target
Published by 2 years, 7 months ago in Business as Mission, Environmental and Funny. 0 CommentsSo, we’ve been trying to be more ‘green’ — more eco-friendly in our lives as part of our Personal Kingdom Impact Plan.
We recycle paper, plastic, electronics, etc., use Seventh generation dish soap and 3x concentrated Method laundry detergent. We use compact fluorescent light bulbs and drive one low emission vehicle that gets fantastic gas mileage. [...]
…you’re able to give away 7 garbage bags of clothing and still have a substantial wardrobe!
This weekend we took an afternoon and went through all of our clothing to determine what we would need for the remainder of our time here, what we want to take with us to India and the rest went into [...]
I just read about the tragic death of Adam Langford and Moses Kimeze in Uganda.
I didn’t know either of them, but when I saw Adam’s bio… I stopped in my tracks.
He was my age.
And he just died in the Lord’s service after less than a year on the field.
I know I could die in a [...]
The last few weeks of our lives have been some of the most intense ever. I feel like I’m on a bullet train that won’t stop to let me off!
Sometimes I can literally feel how fast things are changing around me. It’s a Matrix like moment where reality seems to break down and I can [...]
Jul
2007
9
Prayer Focus: Festivals
Published by 2 years, 8 months ago in India and Prayer Focus. 0 CommentsHindus celebrate numerous religious events called festivals throughout the year. Some are seasonal, while others commemorate certain deities and replay different aspects of Hindu mythology. During Hindu festivals, prayers and offerings are made to the gods and goddesses as a means of spiritual purification, other acts of piety include ablutions (ceremonial bathing), austerities, vigils and [...]
