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ArchiveAugust 2013

Help Viktor and Yuri Get Adopted

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It’s midnight in America. As we lay sleeping, the sun is dusting a half-curtained window far away. If you looked through that window you would see a line of cribs. Little heads are slowing raising. In the midst of these children are two tiny boys. One named Yuri and one named Viktor. Yuri crawls to the edge of his crib and pulls himself up to watch the rays of sun tumble to the floor. Viktor...

Saturate Project Recap

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Thank you all who prayed for our efforts in the Saturate Project this summer! With your support and the time and talents of volunteers this summer, we were able to offer every home in Commerce, GA a copy of the Word of God. We estimate that well over 2,500 homes were covered in the city and outside of the city. I personally think it is so awesome that so many of you were able to have a part in...

I’m Angry at God

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“I just feel so dead. I am so torn up inside. Worthless. Believing lies [and] feeling incapable of believing truth. But I just have to. I am desperate. Angry. I need God yet I feel extremely angry at God. I feel hopeless. This battle never ends. I just want to die.” I penned these words in my journal not two years ago, not nine months ago, but yesterday and they expressed what I wanted to scream...

Kristiana Puckett, Age 18: Building an Orphanage in Uganda

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(Decatur Daily) – On her first trip in April to a remote Ugandan village, Kristiana Puckett, 18, walked in front of her car as it motored along footpaths and helped push bat-filled bushes out of the way. Then she strolled behind the car, joining her mother, Nicole Puckett, two native women, her friend, Susan Acen, and her mother, while a man named Moses drove. The duties this time weren’t...

Rachel Parent, Age 14: Anti-GMO Activist Debates Kevin O’Leary

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(HuffPo) — Anti-GMO activist Rachel Parent got in a spirited debate with Kevin O’Leary on CBC’s “The Lang And O’Leary Exchange” Wednesday night. Parent, who scored the debate after a speech she gave critical of O’Leary’s comments about GMOs was featured on HuffPost Canada, argued genetically-modified foods should be labelled in Canada and the United...

Gabrielle Turnquest, Age 18: Youngest to Pass U.K. Bar Exam

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(TIME) — Gabrielle Turnquest passed Britain’s bar exam last week, making the 18-year-old the youngest person to do so in the 600-year history of the exam. “I just really like finishing things before other people do,” she says. “I don’t do well with breaks or vacations,” added the teen, who credits her mother for encouraging her to focus on school while she was growing up. While the average Briton...

rebelling against low expectations

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