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

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

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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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Missions Pulse – Let’s go to Paris – 9/04/24

Missions Pulse – Let’s go to Paris – 9/04/24

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987 medals awarded at the Paris Olympics

Another 1,647 medals this week at the Paralympic games

10.500 athletes last month, and another 4,400 this week from 169 nations

700,000 New Testaments and Scripture books distributed!

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Yes, all of these statistics as the sports world has been focusing on Paris. Yes, 700,000 Bible books have been given out, in connection with the Paris Games over the past 6 weeks.

Once every 4 years, the 2 versions of the Summer Games bring about a gathering of athletes, officials, families, dignitaries and fans from nearly every nation on the planet.

A network of evangelical Christian groups has been working for the past 18 months to coordinate a massive outreach to share Jesus with the people in the region which hosts the Games, and with all those people who come from all over to attend. Some of these people have never had an encounter with Christianity, even though they are citizens of some nations that the friendly to this faith. Some of the volunteer evangelists are sharing Good News with people from places and cultures where, back home, Christianity is banned.

Tom Hawkins is with Greater Europe Mission who is among the coordinating team for Ensemble 2024, a massive faith-sharing effort by a combined group of European and global Christians from a wide and diverse swath of the theological spectrum.It ranges from local congregations to large denominations to members of little house churches.

This Family Life exclusive takes you to Paris. Hawkins talks about some of the life-changing stories from these efforts and connections. As otherwise-disabled athletes are thriving in their athletic events this week, they see many Paralympic competitors (and fans with handicaps) who have dealt with physical setbacks are ripe to hear the Gospel.

He also provides hopeful insight about a potential transformation in Europe, where across the past 30 years, cultures have diminished their faith practices. He says though, that he sees signs that a continent which has increasing become defined as “post-Christian”, the culture appears to be, in any places, entering a “pre-Rivival” mode.

 

 

Bonus factoid:  The group of groups chose the name “Ensemble” to show how they are united across cultural and historical and theological distinctives — and because the same spelling of the same word has the same meaning, across multiple languages.

 

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Tom Hawkins spoke to Family Life News Producer Greg Gillispie this week, via Zoom, from Paris. The Paralympics Games continue there through Sunday, September 8.

 

     For further information:

The Ensemble 2024 website

The Ensemble 2024 blog

Tom Hawkins works with Greater Europe Mission (GEM), which carries out extensive envangelization outreaches, during and beyond the Olympics.

Tom and his wife Bev met at Nyack College in New York. They have been mission workers in France since 1994.

 

 
Missions Pulse – Community Bible Study – 2/26/24

Missions Pulse – Community Bible Study – 2/26/24

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Missions Pulse : Community Bible Study

An international movement, with local and online options, brings diverse people together to study Christian Scriptures. 

Community Bible Study offers short-term groups for all age groups and stages of life. Its mission statement: Transform lives through the Word of God.

The local coordinator of New York State groups says CBS brings together people from a variety of Christian backgrounds, people who might not otherwise get together, become friends, and learn from each other. Regional director Pat Bailey tells our Abigail Hofland that a northern New York prayer effort has now brought together 40 children and they recently registered their 100th adult.

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Missions Pulse – Door – Ministry to Deaf Individuals – 01/08/24

Missions Pulse – Door – Ministry to Deaf Individuals – 01/08/24

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The people who are served by the ministry agency Door International cannot hear this Family Life news feature.

Which is all the more reason why you should listen to this.

Rob Myers and Door’s other workers and volunteers are active in an evangelism effort to reach out to a people group in which only 1 of every 50 people are followers of Jesus. The outreach is to deaf individuals and communities. In this conversation on our “Missions Pulse” program, Myers explains why it is so hard to share Good News and provide Scriptures to deaf people. Door seeks out non-hearing believers who become church planters and evangelists who share the same circumstances as other deaf people. The ministry also is active in translating 110 Biblical narratives into sign languages. This is a massive task — if you are thinking only about ASL (American Sign Language), you are forgetting about the other 375 sign languages around the world.

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Missions Pulse – Friends in Action – 08/21/23

Missions Pulse – Friends in Action – 08/21/23

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Blue collar workers are putting their God-given talents to work, in God-inspired service.

Friends in Action International makes that kind of life-changing activity happen in many places. Executive Director Matt Durkee gives Family Life insights into how Friends in Action makes construction work happen in places where infrastructure needs are significant. This, he says, brings stability to places which have been unstable. Durkee also tells how FIA supports long-term global mission workers.

Friends in Action, a Pennsylvania-based global ministry, describes its front-line mission work as “moving earth to reveal heaven”.

Missions Pulse – Joe Keim – 07/24/23

Missions Pulse – Joe Keim – 07/24/23

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How can various parts of the Christian Church interact with others, particularly those who were in an Amish community, but left not only their home but their religious background?

Joe Keim, himself formerly Amish, has launched a ministry to welcome and support others who decided to give up their identities as participants in the Amish lifestyle, and therefore often feel disconnected from their pasts — and their families.

Keim says one of the best ways to share our faith, especially with people whose backgrounds are different than ours, is to ask good questions about Jesus.

Missions Pulse – Mission Eurasia in Ukraine – 07/17/23

Missions Pulse – Mission Eurasia in Ukraine – 07/17/23

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While Russian and Ukrainian fighters are on the front lines of what has become a 500-day war in Europe, Christian mission workers are on the “front lines” of helping those civilians caught up in the crossfire. It is not only the deaths and destruction of infrastructure directly related to weapons and bombs, this war created a huge flood disaster when a major dam was breached.

Mission Eurasia is among the ministries seeing to resolve human needs, restore communities, and renew hope. Coordinator Barry Gardner tells us about what is happening as Christians are at work in a war zone. Often, Mission Eurasia emphasizes support and empowerment for local congregations. Hear about the hundreds of thousands of people who are receiving practical help and spiritual witness, even from just one ministry group.

 

 

 

“Missions Pulse” with Abigail Hofland explores the heartbeat of missions through conversations with those at the center of Christ-centered service. Listen alternating Mondays during the Family Life Noon Report, and find our podcasts on FamilyLife.org.

 

Missions Pulse – Bible Translators – 07/03/23

Missions Pulse – Bible Translators – 07/03/23

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A husband and wife couple serve as translation specialists with Pioneer Bible Translators. By integrating Bible translation and Scripture engagement, they provide enduring access to God’s Word for people in West Africa. There are very few followers of Jesus among their target people group. Having Scripture in their own language is an important step for them to know and follow Jesus. Our guests are excited to see more people experience life transformation through God’s Word. The Bible can become an excellent outreach as a literacy tool too.

In this interview you will hear about how much more translation work needs to be done, considering that there are currently 7,300 different languages spoken on this planet.  (Hint: many of the most widespread languages have multiple Scripture options; many thousands do not yet have a single version of the full Holy Bible.)

 

For additional information and inspiration about stretching the world’s access to God’s Word:

 

Missions Pulse is launching as a new News Features series from Family Life. On selected Mondays throughout this summer, our Abigail Hofland will bring you first-person stories to you from the front-line leaders in Christian missions and ministry. Listen during the Family Life Noon Report, find (and share) these conversations 24/7 from the News Podcasts page, or go there to subscribe so you can be notified each time a favorite feature of yours posts a new episode.

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