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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 |
Today, millions of Brazilians across the country will gather around a television during prime time to watch one of the world’s greatest athletes — but they won’t be seeing a sporting event. The Brazilian soccer superstar Kaká will be sharing his testimony of hope and faith in Jesus Christ during the first night of one of the largest Christian evangelistic efforts ever, Minha Esperança — or My Hope Brazil, a ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA). The highly anticipated broadcast dates for My Hope Brazil are Thursday through Saturday, November 6-8.
My Hope Brazil is an effort driven by local Christians to reach their community with the message of God’s love through television programming and their own testimonies. Those involved in the outreach, called “Matthews,” recalling the disciple who invited friends to his home to meet Jesus (Matthew 9), are inviting neighbors, relatives and friends to their homes to watch the programs and hear the message of hope. After viewing the program, the “Matthews” will share their personal testimonies and then invite those present to accept or rededicate their lives to Jesus.
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008 |
Addiction sounds ominous, and it is. Addictions to drugs, alcohol, and gambling tear families apart and ruin lives. But this conference is about more than the junkie scoring dope or the alcoholic hiding vodka around the house. Even the average person gets stuck in negative behavior patterns. Overeating, shopping, sexual temptation, people’s approval, even love…everyone struggles with something. And everyone faces moments of despair and thinking that change is not possible.
Is it possible to change longstanding behavior patterns? The faculty and counselors at CCEF believe that God can change the despairing and the stuck—no matter what they are struggling with. CCEF’s 2008 Annual Conference “The Addict in Us All” slated for November 14-16, 2008 at the Valley Forge Convention Center and November 13 Pre-Conference hopes to accurately represent what God says to stuck people and those who want to help them.
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Monday, September 8th, 2008 |
Leon Leyson, the youngest survivor on Schindler’s List, will speak at the Riviera Country Club, located at 1250 Capri Drive, Pacific Palisades 90272 on Tuesday, September 9th, 6:30 pm. The event will be hosted by Chabad of Pacific Palisades in honor of the community’s Holocaust survivors. Twelve survivors are to attend Tuesday evening’s event. They will be introduced and honored during a very special presentation.
“These twelve people need to be both recognized and honored. They remind us of what they had to endure for being Jews and that such a horrific tragedy once occurred in a modern world,” says Rabbi Zushe Cunin, Executive Director of Chabad of the Pacific Palisades.
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 |
Nearly 1 in 2 people in the USA live with a chronic illness and about 96% of the illnesses are invisible.* Rest Ministries, Inc., the largest Christian organization that serves the chronically ill, an affiliate of Joni Eareckson Tada’s International Disability Ministry, is encouraging those with illness, as well and family, caregivers, and churches through their annual outreach event, National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week, September 8-14, 2008.
This year the week features 20 workshops with well-known guest speakers who will be presenting and answering questions via Blog Talk Radio, September 8-12.
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008 |
The Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) and the Obama for America campaign announced today that two prominent Republicans will address the Democratic National Convention on Monday, August 25, 2008 and Tuesday, August 26, 2008. Former United States Congressman Jim Leach and Fairbanks Alaska Mayor Jim Whitaker will speak about Barack Obama’s record of bringing Republicans, Independents and Democrats together.
Former Congressman Jim Leach will speak on Monday, August 25, 2008. The opening night of the Convention, themed as “One Nation”, will highlight Barack Obama’s life story, his commitment to change, and the voices of Americans calling for a new direction for this country. Michelle Obama will be the keynote speaker on Monday night and the Convention will feature a video tribute to Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
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Monday, August 18th, 2008 |
The Knights of Columbus and the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Evangelization are co-sponsoring a national conference to focus on the effects of abortion on men whose children have been aborted in Chicago on Sept. 8 and 9. Featuring an international panel of speakers and participants, the “Reclaiming Fatherhood” conference will be held at the Marriott Hotel in Oak Brook, IL.
The Milwaukee-based National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation, headed by Vicki Thorn, is organizing the conference, which seeks to bring to light what Thorn describes as the “invisible” issue in our society and even in the Church: the profound effect that abortion has on fathers whose children are aborted.
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Monday, August 18th, 2008 |
Pastor David Whitney, a Senior Instructor at “Institute On The Constitution,” will be the September speaker in the group’s monthly “First Friday” lecture series. His talk will explain why marriage is no business of the government, why there should be no marriage license requirement. The “IOTC” is an educational effort on the part of the Law Office of Peroutka and Peroutka of Pasadena, Maryland. The program is intended to reconnect Americans to the history of the American Republic and to their heritage of freedom under law.
By exploring the fundamental principles of civil government upon which our Constitutional Republic was founded, and by studying the original intent of the founders, we can begin to recover the lost freedoms that require knowledge and vigilance to protect and defend. Today, many Americans are surprised but delighted to learn that we were founded as a Constitutional Republic of Sovereign States with a central government of purposely limited powers based on Biblical principles. The recovery and application of these principles is necessary for the reclamation of the Republic.
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