The prayer was simply for a “divine appointment.” As Toni, the Rapid Response Team chaplain walked around the memorial site in Aurora, Colo.,—where many gathered to mourn and pay respects to the victims who were killed in the horrific Jul…
Pastors and Christian leaders from around the country came together this week for final planning stages of a national prayer event meant to address the “moral depravity” in the United States today. The “America for Jesus” rally …
Since its beginning in 1998 as Children of the World Ministries, Inc., orphaned and abandoned children around the world have been provided safe havens. In 2012, they are continuing this mission with a new name, Serving Orphans Worldwide, under the dire…
“I never want to see you again!” she screams.
From down the hall I hear a thud,
and the screaming continues.
“Is it like this every night?” my friend asks.
“Yes, every night. I don’t understand what makes someone
stay…” I pause. “…what makes someone put up with it all.”
In my mind I dream of getting up,
of walking down the hall,
opening the door, and ending this.
I dream of making this poor excuse of a man, of a husband, of a father,
pick on someone his own size instead of victimizing the innocent around him.
I dream of rescuing this woman, these children,
from the desperation in which they constantly live.
Instead, I shake it off and turn the volume up on the television.
Sometimes I wonder who the poor excuse really is.
This poem © Kevin Walker. Published August 2012.
“Missio Nexus,” a new cooperative missions network, has been launched as the umbrella association for world missions efforts from North America. Until recently, two associations of missions agencies and denominations have operated in the United States and Canada: CrossGlobal Link (formerly IFMA) and The Mission Exchange (formerly EFMA). Church of God World Missions is a founding member […]
I sense anger – burning anger – from down the hall.
I’ve been staying in this
decaying mess of a hotel for almost
three weeks now, and I feel this anger,
smoldering, flaming up,
slowly consuming the last of the shell
of the woman it lives in.
Her husband left years ago.
Her and the kids.
With no job and no money they live here –
pinning old memories on the cracked walls of their living room;
watching as the rats tear into their discount cereal boxes.
She has nowhere to go.
So, she sits, and thinks, and takes revenge in her mind.
And as the anger burns,
her soul begins to crumble like the walls in her living room.
This poem © Kevin Walker. Published August 2012.
Child Evangelism Fellowship, the largest Christian ministry to children in the world, has announced that it has shared the gospel of Jesus Christ with a staggering 12.1 million children around the world in 2011. This is an 11% increase over the 10.9 mi…
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