We decided recently that the society needed to update its child protection policy. A committee of four members from three villages was given this task. We met in Harare, Zimbabwe last month and using the Keeping Children Safe tool kits, we developed a new Child Protection Policy, which I think is a good one and […]
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In his famous Moon speech, President John F. Kennedy said, “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard …” During the last week of August the leaders all the Villages of
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This morning I was reading Ecclesiastes 3: 1-15: “A Time for Everything; There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven. A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted and so on.” One
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I subscribe to the Henri Nouwen Society daily mediations, which are sent to my email inbox. This week the topic is “Our Wounds”. Nouwen begins by dealing with the misconception that time heals all wounds. If we think that over time we will forget the wounds we have experienced, especially those at the hands of
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Chaos. Can we avoid it? Should we try to? Should we run from it or do we belong in the middle of it? I recently spent a week in a small remote community where one of our Villages of Hope is situated. The area is rich with natural beauty and has the most stunning view
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