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Family Life 5 O’Clock Report – 10/15/24

By Family Life News | October 15, 2024

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Family Life 5 O’Clock Report – 10/15/24

Hometown Heroes – Jenn Boyd of “Hope Walks” – 10/15/24

By Family Life News | October 15, 2024

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This week’s guest on Family Life’s “Hometown Heroes” feature is Jenn Boyd of the “Hope Walks” ministry. It works from Pennsylvania, but provides international medical work to help relieve the physical limitations — and, just as important, the social and personal stigma — faced by many children who are born with Club Foot syndrome. Their emphasis is that a treatable condition shouldn’t keep a child from walking.

This ministry has provided treatments for more than 161,000 children in 14 nations.

Hear about how this medical mission work is transforming lives and communities. Tap the podcast player on this page. You can also go to FamilyLife.org/newspodcasts to download or share this conversation with other who you believe would be interested too. (That link also give you a subscribe option to be notified each time Mark Webster posts a new edition of his “Hometown Heroes” interviews.)

Jenn Boyd is the communications project coordinator for Hope Walks, based in York Springs, PA.

For more information:

The website for Hope Walks is www.hopewalks.org
A background video is called “Hope Prays, Heals, Impacts … and Walks”. Their site also has multiple other videos online to explain the problem, the mission’s ways of healing, and the first-person stories of the families whose lives are enhanced because of a surgery which is simple and common in the U.S.

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Family Life Noon Report – 10/15/24

By Mark Webster | October 15, 2024

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Family Life Noon Report – 10/15/2024

10/14/24 5 O’ Clock Report

By Sarah Harnisch | October 14, 2024

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10/14/24 5 O’ Clock Report

When you disagree politically with someone – a Christian counselor’s recommendations – 10/14/24

By Family Life News | October 14, 2024

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Many families, workplaces and friendship are suffering under election-induced stresses

However, today’s Newsmaker Interview on Family Life News says politically-active Christians have a key role to play in shaping that tone

The political climate has become so divided, many people are fearful of talking about campaigns and candidates with friends and co-workers.

We sought advice on how Christians can handle election-based conversations.

Focus on the Family counselor Joannie DeBrito says it can be okay to disagree, agreeably. However, if someone only wants to argue about politics, it’s helpful to just step away.

She uses practical examples of how to maintain both a faithful Christian witness and productive relationships, with friends and relatives you may have on “both sides of the aisle”. She also gives helpful references from Scripture.

Dr. Joannie DeBrito is a coach at Hope Restored Aftercare and a columnist and consultant with Focus on the Family. She has 30+ years experience as a therapist and counselor.

Listen for our earlier conversation with her, on parallel topics: May 24, 2024

Here are links to her work at Hope Restored and Focus. Information about the resources from Focus on the Family she mentions is available from 855-771-HELP (4357) or FocusOnTheFamily.com

Some of her columns and blogs about marriage, parenting and family matters can be found here and here.

When you disagree politically with someone - a Christian counselor's recommendations - 10/14/24

Issues in Education – 10/14/24

By Bob Price | October 14, 2024

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“Issues in Education”

Retired school principal and superintendent Ralph Kerr joins us for the Monday Family Life News Feature “Issues in Education”.

This week:

Teacher shortages, already significant, are magnified by the number of immigrant children who entered the U.S. in recent years
School districts are hamstrung by the multiple languages spoken by their young newcomers, many of whom are not (yet) proficient in English
Whether public schools and parochial schools should compete together or have separate leagues and championships — That debate is renewed again
How will public schools be affected, depending on whether a majority of New York voters approve or vote against Proposition One on this fall’s ballots

Dr. Ralph Kerr founded the Teaching and Learning Institute, based in Houghton, NY. TLI has its mission to influence Pennsylvania’s and New York’s public schools with increased involvement by people traditional family values and Judeo-Christian beliefs.