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The youth of a nation
Rene Marshall shared a great reflection on the recent violence in Jos, Nigeria and the youth that were involved.
Isaiah – a youth being cared for by ECWA that I met while in Jos
“The spiritual decision I made this year in camp was not to steal, no fighting, and no lying. May God give me understanding [...]
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end poverty!
Today is Blog Action Day 08 – focused on ending poverty. I caught on to this a little late. Sorry about that. But if you’ve read my blog for any length of time I think you’ll know how frustrated I get to see people living in poverty.
I think you know it rattles me crazy when [...]
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Two years ago…
Mike Blythe shared his latest KMZ file of Jos, Nigeria yesterday.
Going back and looking at the sites make me start thinking about my trip to Nigeria.
I went back and looked at my blog posts and realized two years ago exactly I was nearing the end of my two week stay there.
Thought this was also interesting…
Nearly [...]
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re: Google Earth updates Jos Nigeria
Screen shot of Jos Nigeria
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell.
Back in July I reported that Google Earth had updated their satellite images of Jos, Nigeria (where Rob and a group of others from Lakepoint spent two weeks).
I shared the info with Mike Blythe, a missionary there working with the ECWA hospital.
Mike just sent me a [...]
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Google Earth updates Jos Nigeria
Screen shot of Jos Nigeria
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell.
Just discovered that Google Earth has updated their satellite images of Jos, Nigeria.
Awesome! The streets don’t line up at all but maybe some folks from Jos can build a KML file of some of the SIMS and Evangel Hospital sites in the city…. (hint hint hint)
I [...]
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Gas prices expected to drop after strike ends
As our economy continues to be based more and more more on a global level, its important to realize what happens in Nigeria may not stay in Nigeria.
A recent strike in Nigeria as caused Exxon to completely shut-down production there, hurting the balance between supply and demand world-wide. But now it looks like the striking [...]
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City Ministries in Nigeria
Mike Blyth shared an info-video from some of the missionaries serving with City Ministries in Nigeria.
City Ministries is the same group we worked with when we went to Jos, Nigeria in 2006 and also when CWF went in 2007.
Also friend and UMHB alumni, Erin Rigsby, works with City Ministries as well as a nurse for [...]
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Beaten Nigerian woman wants pictures shown
From the BBC:
A female Nigerian politician badly beaten by a local MP is standing by the publication of a revealing photograph showing her injuries in a hospital bed.
Habiba Garba told the BBC she wanted people to see the reality of violence against women in northern Nigeria.
But Kano State authorities say they have received complaints the [...]
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Videos from Nigeria
Just posted the first video from the CWF trip to Nigeria. At least two more are on the way.
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Tomorrow night
Just an FYI/reminder…
The Christian Wrestling Federation will be live in Rockwall, Texas tomorrow night. The show is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. It’s a free show and you can bet there will be plenty of updates throughout the night about the CWF’s recent trip to Nigeria.
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