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Read MoreDid you know that Texas ranks second in the country in the total number of food-insecure individuals and seventh in terms of child hunger? According to Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, “Dallas is the poorest rich city in the United States.
For the last several months, the leadership of IBC has been praying about and talking through two significant ministry changes for Fall 2016. In this process, as in all things, our desire has been to follow God where he leads as we serve his church.
The other day, my husband came home with a three-ring binder from a business coaching group to which he belongs. He plopped it down beside me on the couch: “Personal Life Planner” it said on the cover. It beckoned to me.
This is the story of many people working together to bring transformation and hope to the world of human trafficking. While we can all enact change in our corner of the world, and one person can change the whole world, for a problem on the scale of human trafficking, it’s going to take all of us working together to bring about worldwide transformation.
In the 23rd Psalm, the writer says to God, “You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies.” God — host-God, table-setting God, banquet-setting God — he spreads a feast for us in the presence of enemies.
It’s 4 a.m. and, after 200 pages and five hours, Nick closed the book. He’d started it with the intention of winning back his ex-girlfriend, but now he was questioning the very fundamentals of his life.