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Features

Speak Up for Your Global Neighbor

By David Livermore

Millions of people around the world are suffering or facing dire circumstances. How can one person help out or speak up on their behalf? It’s easier to make a difference than you may think. From his new book, “What Can I Do?” David Livermore offers seven practical strategies that you can implement right away.

 
 

Leadership Profiles

With Hope and a Smile: Rosalinda P. Vint

By Bill Shepson

Rosalinda P. Vint, assisting minister at LightHouse Church in Newbury Park, Calif., has dedicated her life to helping troubled youth who are transitioning out of foster care or the prison system and desperately need hope and healing. Having been a foster child who suffered much abuse, she founded a non-profit community service organization that reaches at-risk young people.

 
 

Devotionals

When the Wicked Fall

By Tim Clark

When Osama bin Laden was found and killed on May 1, it raised a quandary among some believers. What should our attitude be when something like this happens? Foursquare Pastor Tim Clark offers a balanced and biblical response.

 
 

Features

A Reason to Smile: Thailand Report

By Bill Shepson

There are great needs in Thailand, which is often called the Land of Smiles but is also known for its human trafficking and spiritual darkness. But Foursquare missionaries in the trenches are watching God do some amazing things and seeing people experience freedom, both physically and spiritually.

 
 

Features

The Missional Church: Creating Conversation (Part 2)

By Bill Shepson

“Being missional is all about creating spaces for gospel conversation to take place,” says Steve Cecil, who planted a Foursquare church called The Journey Community in Madison, Wis. In a four-part series, we take a close look at what being missional means for The Foursquare Church and how various congregations are impacting the world around them.

 
 

Features

A Place to Call Home

By Carol Chapman Stertzer

Michael and Shari Lienau adopted five interracial siblings, adding to the four biological children of their own. But this family's love doesn't end at home. As they have embraced one another, they have embraced the world—and have become healers in the ministry of racial reconciliation.

 
 

Leadership Profiles

Hope for the Hidden Homeless: John Wiley

By Bill Shepson

Find out why Pastor John Wiley is on a mission to help Kansas City's “hidden homeless.”

 
 

Leadership Profiles

A Heart for the Underdog: Andy Houltberg

By Bill Shepson

Andy Houltberg's passion for people goes all the way back to his childhood. Now a pastor, Andy is serving those in his community who need it the most.

 
 

Features

Humans for Sale

By Ken Walker

He fled from Vietnam as a child, alone and scared, fighting for his life as a refugee. She was sold into slavery as a 7-year-old girl, her life becoming a living nightmare. Both barely survived. But now, together, Trong and Rani Hong are shining a light into one of the darkest issues of our time.

 
 

Leadership Profiles

Culturally Connected: Derrick Engoy

By The Foursquare Church

While you'll certainly find Pastor Derrick Engoy at the New Life Center church, you'll be just as likely to find him in a coffeehouse, a club or a bar, reciting poetry and emceeing for his band, Elements Live.

 
 
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