NCM MAGAZINE

 

NCM MAGAZINE

SPRING 2016

Ministry in the Margins: How Churches Are Living Out Compassion Among the Least of These


  • On Skid Row in Los Angeles, karaoke builds community among people facing addiction and homelessness

  • In an L.A. neighborhood known for gang violence, the Bresee Youth Center empowers students to become leaders

  • Volunteers in Swaziland care for people living with HIV/AIDS

  • A 20-something shares his experience working with children displaced by war

  • Children with special needs find love and acceptance

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SUMMER 2016

Reflecting God’s Love: Clean Water Is Transforming Lives in Sierra Leone


  • Churches in Sierra Leone are giving the gift of safe water, which is the difference between life and death for many

  • In Kroo Bay, a slum in Sierra Leone’s capital, the church is helping prevent the deadly sting of rampant malaria

  • A mobile intervention clinic in Moldova is offering the possibility of new life for women caught in sex trafficking

  • In East Toledo, Ohio, a church is getting outdoors and building relationships in the community

  • Sheep and chickens are providing food and a future for families in rural Armenia

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WINTER 2016

BEYOND BELIEF: How a mentoring ministry in Nashville is empowering youth to believe in themselves


  • In an area of Nashville, Tennessee, known for violence and poverty, mentors aim to transform the lives through empowerment

  • After decades of separation, a pastor is reconnected with the couple who sponsored him

  • A church in Monrovia, California, is making sure everyone is welcome at the table by providing immigration resources

  • Villages in rural Sri Lanka finally able to have access to the clean water they’ve needed for years

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SPRING 2015

Compassionate Churches Are Changing Communities


  • Photo essay: Investing in the dreams of children in Mozambique

  • How people leaving prison and addiction are finding wholeness

  • What happened when a church said, “Come as you are."

  • Compassion in a community torn apart by war

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SUMMER 2015

Relief to Recovery: The Church in Nepal Is There for the Long Haul


  • Images of the devastation after Nepal’s earthquake — and the church’s pursuit of hope

  • Turning dreams into reality for entrepreneurs

  • Holding onto hope in the face of HIV and AIDS

  • How child sponsorship is changing futures

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WINTER 2015

Faces of Hope: How Churches Are Picturing a Better Tomorrow for Children


  • Special photo issue

  • How the refugee crisis is affecting children—and what churches are doing in response

  • An alternative to despair in an Indianapolis neighborhood

  • Taking vulnerable children off the streets of Madagascar

  • Teaching childlike faith in the Philippines

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SPRING 2014

Freedom for the Captives: Efforts to End Human Trafficking


  • Open doors for survivors of trafficking in Romania

  • Abolition movement at Point Loma Nazarene University

  • Combating gender-based violence in Kenya

  • How Syria’s war affects its children

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SUMMER 2014

Rooting out Hunger: How Churches Are Cultivating Change


  • Widows go from desperation to determination

  • Food, farming, and faith

  • Addressing Hunger in America

  • Sponsorship brings brothers back to God

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WINTER 2014

Hope Rising: Giving Girls a Chance at a Brighter Future


  • Getting an education in India and Sri Lanka

  • Fighting child marriage in Bangladesh

  • Life as a refugee

  • Escaping the terror of human trafficking

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SPRING 2013

  • Flipping the Script for youth in Los Angeles

  • If you give a girl a piglet in Ghana…

  • Young woman with disability works to build clinic in Ghana

  • Refuge for children forced to flee from Syria

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SUMMER 2013

Celebrating 30 Years of Child Development Programs

  • Ministry to children with special needs in Ukraine

  • Lebanese congregation sponsors child from Sudan

  • Boys living on the street find happy home

  • Coming together after Oklahoma tornado

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WINTER 2013

Youth Issue

  • Youth in Nepal begin ministry to others

  • Caring for Creation in Guatemala

  • Ohio youth grow garden to fight global hunger

  • Providing clean water in war-torn Sri Lanka

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