This workshop discusses economic empowerment of women in the developing world. Ms. Kargbo shares personal ministry stories from Women of Hope in Sierra Leone. Her premise is that poverty is not defined as a lack of resources, but as a series of broken relationships with self, God, others, and all of creation. It can, therefore, […]
Mission, Marketplace & Including Those with Disabilities (Mary Grace Lagasca)
Ms. Lagasca recounts her own personal experience of running a government-funded adult day program named InJoy. She describes the history of how InJoy began and how God has provided over the years, despite numerous challenges, to sustain InJoy’s ministry. She describes what her day program entails, and offers insights into how it is managed, including […]
Mission of the Church, Hope and Peace in a Broken World, The (Bundy/Tangara)
This workshop begins with Ms. Tangara’s own personal story of living with paralysis in Mali, West Africa since age 10. She describes all the difficulties she endured, including social ostracism and rejection, barriers to education, untreated medical problems, and poverty, to the point that she eventually became suicidal. Through the Joni book, however, Ms. Tangara […]