The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)in intercessory prayer.
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Today in the Mission Yearbook: December 9, 2021
MOUND BAYOU FLOOD RECOBVERY - When heavy rain led to flooding in the Mississippi Delta in June, members of First Presbyterian Church of Cleveland, Mississippi, were among the volunteers who streamed into nearby Mound Bayou to help residents begin the process of recovery ...
Founded in 2001, Free Wheelchair Mission is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to providing wheelchairs for the impoverished disabled in developing nations. Headquartered in Irvine, California, FWM works around the world in partnership with a vast network of humanitarian, faith-based and government organizations, sending wheelchairs to hundreds of thousands of disabled people, providing not only the gift of mobility, but of dignity, independence, and hope.
Just One Day Left to Order Christmas and Holiday Gift Cards
For a donation of $96 or more, which includes a wheelchair that will be sent to someone living with a disability in a developing country, you’ll receive one of our Free Wheelchair Mission Christmas or Holiday Cards to give to someone this holiday season.
They can then use the unique gift code included with every card to designate which region to send the wheelchair to: Africa, Asia, or Latin America and the Caribbean. They’ll later receive email updates about the wheelchair they sent.
Not only does each Christmas or Holiday Card provide gifts to two individuals—the one who receives the card and the one who receives the wheelchair—it helps spread awareness about this cause.
Visit FreeWheelchairMission.org/Christmas and order your cards by December 9, 2021 to ensure delivery to you in time to send out for the holidays!
Or, if you would like to make a donation of $96 or more as part of our “Season of Giving” in addition to or in lieu of greeting cards, visit FreeWheelchairMission.org/SeasonOfGiving.
And don’t forget—it’s also year end, so remember to make your gifts prior to December 31st and take advantage of current tax laws!
Another gift idea is our limited-edition Hope Necklace!
If you would like to help share our message with others, or would simply like a necklace to gift this holiday season, you can make a donation of $96 or more to receive a 14K gold Hope Necklace (pictured above) as our gift, while supplies last.
A limited number of Hope Necklaces are still available. For more information, visit HopeNecklace.org.
Celebrate the meaning of the holidays while helping to transform lives around the world with the gift of mobility in our “Season of Giving.”
ODESSA, TEXAS - The Empty Stocking Fund needs your help to reach this year’s goal of $100,000 with only 12 days left to give. A generous matching challenge from the Sewell Family of Companies has been offered to match donations up to $50,000.
Funds stay in Ector County and help needy families like that of Annie, not her real name.
This family is struggling, Annie is a single mom with breast cancer raising three girls. This family can be helped through the Empty Stocking Fund, an annual fundraising effort by the Odessa American and The Salvation Army.
Empty Stocking Funds go for a good holiday meal and small gifts under the tree. Donations to the Empty Stocking Fund may be mailed or delivered to the Salvation Army Community Center, 810 E. 11th St., or the Odessa American, 700 N. Grant, Suite 800. ZIP codes for both are 79761. Call the Salvation Army at 332-0738.
The Empty Stocking Fund was created by the Odessa American in 1995 and has raised more than $2.1 million.
ODESSA, TEXAS - Prominently featured in the Book of Daniel and often mentioned elsewhere in the Old Testament, Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II is a compelling character who was cruel at times and understanding at others and is the central figure in some of the Bible’s most unusual stories.
Nebuchadnezzar lived from 642 to 562 B.C. and ruled Babylon in present day Iraq for the last 43 years of his life.
Historically remembered mainly for destroying Jerusalem in 586 B.C. and moving the Israelites to Babylon as slaves, the king is also noted for putting Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the “fiery furnace” for refusing to worship a golden idol and for being made animal-like by God and forced to crawl on his hands and knees and eat grass for seven years because he had been arrogant.
Those stories are in the Book of Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar is also mentioned in Second Kings, First Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther and Jeremiah.
“The story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego has always signified to me that even the hardest-hearted person can be reached,” said the Rev. Nathan Headrick, pastor of Midland Church of God. “Nebuchadnezzar looked into the fire and said, ‘Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire. They have no hurt and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.’
“Then he totally reversed course on what he was going to do.”
Noting the story in Daniel 4:25-35 about Nebuchadnezzar’s abasement, the Rev. Headrick said he might have been afflicted with boanthropy, which is a psychological disorder in which the person believes that he or she is a cow or an ox, according to pharmaceutical-journal.com.
“He is known outside the Biblical canon as an important king like Darius who was able to overthrow Israel and take the Hebrews into captivity,” he said. “He was a powerful guy who wasn’t afraid to be ruthless. He got mad because the Hebrews wouldn’t do what he wanted them to and he had the fire heated seven times hotter than it had ever been heated and then he brought them out and put in the people who had caused them to be there in the first place. He wanted total control.”
A successor of Nebuchadnezzar’s, King Darius the Mede, put Daniel in a lions’ den in the sixth chapter of the Book of Daniel.
The Rev. John McLemore, pastor of Belmont Baptist Church in Odessa, said Nebuchadnezzar “shows up in the most prophetic books of the Bible.
“His dreams are interpreted by Daniel and we see some of the same prophecies in the Book of Daniel that are in Revelation,” McLemore said. “Most Bible scholars believe that Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were teenagers. They didn’t get smart or wise off. They told him that they understood he was the king and to be respected, but they would be violating the laws of their God and they weren’t going to do it. The bottom line is that the king realized their God was more powerful than him and all the gods of Babylon" ...
The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)in intercessory prayer.
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Today in the Mission Yearbook: December 8, 2021
REV. DR. KENYATTA GILBERT - About 20 minutes into a recent webinar on prophetic preaching, the Rev. Dr. Kenyatta Gilbert paused to answer questions. After one about preaching in “purple” churches (a mix of political conservatives and progressives in the pews), Gilbert got this question from one of the 30 participants, a pastor also serving a purple congregation: Have I spent enough time understanding the complexity of the lamentation of these people?
“That’s real talk. It’s a good starting place,” said Gilbert, professor of homiletics at the Howard University School of Divinity and the founder of The Preaching Project, a teaching and mentoring ministry that promotes preaching excellence and effective leadership ...
Throughout the holidays, so many people in our community get together to help others in many different ways.
One group in Midland is raising money for charity by "singing loud for all to hear."
The group goes by the name of Voces Dei. Rob Montgomery, Musical Director for the group, told NewsWest 9 that this is a way for them to give back to the community, as they are all volunteers....
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Featuring all of the words from the pew edition, this enlarged version of Glory to God is ideal for those using the hymnal as a devotional or study resource.
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ODESSA, TEXAS - The Empty Stocking Fund needs your help to reach this year’s goal of $100,000 with only 12 days left to give. A generous matching challenge from the Sewell Family of Companies has been offered to match donations up to $50,000.
Funds stay in Ector County and help needy families like that of Haley, not her real name.
This family is struggling as Haley is a grandmother with custody of her grandchild following her daughter’s death. This family can be helped through the Empty Stocking Fund, an annual fundraising effort by the Odessa American and The Salvation Army.
Empty Stocking Funds go for a good holiday meal and small gifts under the tree. Donations to the Empty Stocking Fund may be mailed or delivered to the Salvation Army Community Center, 810 E. 11th St., or the Odessa American, 700 N. Grant, Suite 800. ZIP codes for both are 79761. Call the Salvation Army at 332-0738.
The Empty Stocking Fund was created by the Odessa American in 1995 and has raised more than $2.1 million.
ODESSA, TEXAS - The Rev. Russell Nebhut, who was the pastor of Asbury United Methodist Church from 2014-18, has returned to Odessa to open a non-denominational church.
Having recently served at St. Mark’s UMC in El Paso, the Rev. Nebhut said he was asked by friends to start a church here and the result is the Spirit and Truth Church at 3102 E. University Blvd.
Noting that his favorite scripture is Genesis 3:8, “To walk with God is my goal for today and for eternity,” the pastor said, “We are Bible-based, historically and doctrinally traditional and conservative.
“The Bible is the Word of God. Jesus Christ really did live, die and rise again. There is salvation only through faith in him.”
Nebhut is a 58-year-old native of Garland who worked as a cowboy and in a Home Interiors and Gifts warehouse for five years before enrolling at Dallas Christian College for a bachelor’s degree in New Testament and at Concordia Seminary in St Louis for a master’s of divinity. He was a Lutheran pastor for 18 years at churches in Parkers Prairie and Miltona, Minn., Hillsboro, Hamilton and Midland and he served as pastor of Visionary Hollowell Community UMC in Midland before coming to Asbury UMC.
An average of 35-40 people attend his church at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. He and his wife Stephanie have five children and three grandchildren.
“If there is ever a time when you come to our church and do not hear that Jesus died for you and is your savior, then you will have to hold me accountable because I will have failed as a pastor,” said Nebhut, whose book about child sexual abuse, “I’m Still Here by the Grace of God,” was published in 2019 by Emerge Publishing of Tulsa, OklaHOMA ...
The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)in intercessory prayer.
The Rev. Matthew Schram is senior pastor at Memorial Presbyterian Church.
Today in the Mission Yearbook: December 7, 2021
THRIVING CHURCH - Over the course of the past year, churches across the globe have wondered what coming out on the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic looks like. Many have wondered how to make the best decisions for their worshiping communities. As the pandemic pushed churches to make difficult decisions, many churches saw an opportunity to try new things.
In a season of change and growth, one such church in Michigan cultivated a spirit of “church on the move” that inspired members to find innovative and creative ways to live into their mission statement: “A house of prayer for all people” ...
The ChinaAid Associationis a non-profit Christian organization - based in Midland, Texas - with a mission to uncover and reveal the truth about religious persecution in China, focusing especially on the unofficial church. They do this, they explain in their website, by exposing the abuses, encouraging the abused and equipping the saints to advance the kingdom of God throughout China.
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Chinese government increases surveillance on State-sanctioned clergy Distributed by ChinaAid, November 2021 ...
MIDLAND, TEXAS – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a fact sheet on policy changes within government-sanctioned churches in China. The recent report showed how new measured by the State Administration of Religious Affairs (SARA) severely limits the freedom of clergy members and encourage further persecution of house churches in China ...
The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)in intercessory prayer.
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Today in the Mission Yearbook: December 6, 2021
FOOD INSECURITY - First Presbyterian Church of Yorktown in Yorktown Heights, New York, recently became a Hunger Action Congregation, capping off a long tradition of serving the community through a food pantry and other endeavors. ...
The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)in intercessory prayer.
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Today in the Mission Yearbook: December 5, 2021
PARTICIPATORY WORSHIP - For a minister of music who’s also a choral music and conducting professor, Tom Trenney is a born storyteller.
During the fourth of his five Routley Lectures delivered to the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship and Music Conference, Trenney told this story about a man he’s long admired, the Presbyterian pastor and children’s television pioneer Fred Rogers ...
ABILENE, TEXAS - Encourage your pastor to tell us the upcoming week's sermon topic. It's FREE, and it's open to churches throughout the Big Country. Email it to publishme@reporternews.com by 2 p.m. each Tuesday. Please put "sermon" in the subject line. Include the topic, who will deliver it, a synopsis limited to 60 words, when services begin and the name and street address of your place of worship ...
LUBBOCK, TEXAS - From the Avalanche-Journal, news of regular services, and special events and programs at houses of faith in Lubbock and across the South Plains ...
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Today in the Mission Yearbook: December 4, 2021
PRESBYTERIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSICIANS' WORSHIP AND MUSIC CONFERENCE - During a worship service at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship and Music Conference, the Rev. Cecilia (Ce Ce) Armstrong told those gathered in person and online that she was not going to preach a devotional sermon ...
Founded in 2001, Free Wheelchair Mission is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to providing wheelchairs for the impoverished disabled in developing nations. Headquartered in Irvine, California, FWM works around the world in partnership with a vast network of humanitarian, faith-based and government organizations, sending wheelchairs to hundreds of thousands of disabled people, providing not only the gift of mobility, but of dignity, independence, and hope.
Friday Story: “Hidden Surprise”
Meet Miguel, a 22-year-old who lives with his sister and mother in Nicaragua. He was named in honor of his father, who supported the family as a farmer.
One afternoon, his mother Juana found little Miguel convulsing on the ground, suffering from a high fever. Overwhelmed with desperation, Juana picked him up and started walking for several hours, for there were no medical centers nearby. She finally came upon the only doctor in their remote community, who diagnosed Miguel with a brain injury caused by a high fever that was triggered by an infection.
To add to an already tragic situation, Miguel's beloved father passed away, leaving the family with no financial support. Juana took Miguel and his sister, Maria, to the city, where she makes a modest living selling enchiladas at a bus station.
Meanwhile, Miguel stayed home with his sister, hidden from public view out of fear and shame.
You see, Miguel’s older sister Maria (23) also lives with a disability. A tumor was found on her spine when she was an infant, causing severe injuries to her legs and leaving her without mobility.
For a family to have one child with a disability was seen by some in their community as a curse from God, so a family having two children with disabilities must be doubly cursed—which we know is not true, but is what some in their community believed.
Thus, Miguel would never leave the confines of their corrugated metal shack, kept out of sight due to the stigma surrounding disability. His big sister, Maria, would take care of him while their mother went off to work.
Our local distribution partner, Metanoia Missions, learned about Maria’s need for mobility and came to their home to assess her for a wheelchair. They were surprised to find Miguel there, too, and quickly realized that he would also benefit from one of our wheelchairs.
Because of friends like you, both Maria and Miguel received new wheelchairs that day!
With mobility, Maria dreams of getting married, having her own family, and “being an independent woman” who can earn an income to help her younger brother and their mother. “My mother has been an angel throughout my life,” said a grateful Maria, who now uses her wheelchair to sell fruit outside of their home.
This family’s emotional journey was shared by Metanoia Missions at our most recent webinar from The Wheelhouse series, titled “The Story Behind Our Stories.” In case you missed it, you can watch the replay video below. In this webinar, you’ll learn more about what it takes to capture these stories of lives transformed by the gift of mobility.
Celebrate the Holidays With the Gift of Mobility
This season, give a gift that keeps on giving!
Purchase a Christmas or Holiday Card and you will gift a free wheelchair to someone in a developing country who desperately needs one but cannot afford one.
Or, in lieu of or in addition to greeting cards, you can give a donation as part of our “Season of Giving.” Make a tax-deductible, year-end gift by December 31 to take advantage of current tax laws.
ODESSA, TEXAS - It’s a holiday battle between two law enforcement leaders. Odessa Police Chief Mike Gerke and Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis will be ringing the bell this Saturday to raise money for the Salvation Army.
The pair have been battling it out for this worthy cause for the last four years. Now, as part of their friendly competition, they are asking for your help to fill the red kettle ...
ODESSA, TEXAS - With the Christmas season now in full swing, Spirit and Truth Church in Odessa has created a unique way for families to have fun and benefit the West Texas Food Bank.
This Saturday, Spirit and Truth Church will have its first ever Gingerbread Extravaganza, which will benefit the West Texas Food Bank.
For $35 per gingerbread house, families can decorate with all sorts of different candies, snack on cookies with coffee or hot chocolate and take pictures in the picture booth and enjoy Christmas music.
Half of the registration fee will go to the West Texas Food Bank.
“It’s something that we wanted to do to support the food bank but it’s also Christmas season,” Spirit and Truth Pastor Russell Nebhut said. “It offers families something fun to do. Decorating gingerbread houses is something that a lot of kids like to do. Parents can do it with their kids. Grandparents can do it with their grandkids and etc. They come to the food bank, sit down with their houses and all their decorating materials are there. They decorate their houses. There’ll be Christmas music playing.”
The event will take place from 10 a.m.-noon Saturday at the West Texas Food Bank.
“They take their gingerbread houses home with them,” Nebhut said. “All the proceeds and any profit from this event go to the food bank. Most people don’t understand that $1 will feed five people at the food bank. If we can actually sell 50 houses purchased, it’ll give food to a lot of people.”
Russell and his wife Stephanie recently moved back to Odessa after spending time in El Paso.
This isn’t the first time they’ve done an event like this.
“(Stephanie) is creative and has done this before in the past with different places,” Russell said. “It’s always a fun event for families and we’re big on doing family-oriented events so that mom, dad and kids and grandparents can spend quality time together. They’re not just in front of a TV. They’re doing something fun together. We’re new back in town. We were in Odessa for five years. We went to El Paso and then came back to Odessa to start a new church and we wanted to do something fun for our first Christmas back that families can take part in.”
Stephanie talked about how the idea of doing this event came about.
“We did something similar when we were at a church in El Paso. We actually raised money for the Child Advocacy Center there,” Stephanie said. “We moved here and it was a successful event and we realized how fun it was for families to get together and do something for the community while having fun themselves. We saw the need here and saw that one dollar can feed five people through the food bank and we wanted to promote the food bank and do something fun for Christmas for families.”
Those who are interested in taking part will need to go online to register at spiritandtruthodessa.org.
“They do need to register because we want to make sure that there are gingerbread houses for everybody,” Russell said. “There’s limited space so we can do 50 families, basically. They can go to our church webpage and there’s link to register and that’s spirtandtruthodessa.org. or they can go to eventbrite.com and the link to that page takes you to that page and it’s a registration thing for community events and you just have to find the Spirit and Truth Gingerbread House Extravaganza. The registration is $35. Half of that amount goes to the food bank.”
Russell and his wife have been involved with distributing food with different churches and this is something they wanted to do to help the West Texas Food Bank ...
The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)in intercessory prayer.
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Today in the Mission Yearbook: December 3, 2021
PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN IN THE CONGO - When the numbers on a graph showed recently that children are thriving nutritionally in the province of North Ubangi in Northwest Congo, mission co-worker Inge Sthreshley said it made her heart sing. ...
ODESSA, TEXAS - The 27th year of the Empty Stocking Fund continues through Dec. 17.
The goal is $100,000 and won’t be met without your help. A generous matching challenge from the Sewell Family of Companies has been offered to match donations up to $50,000.
Funds stay in Ector County and help needy families like that of the Garcia’s, not their real name.
This family recently had the father deported and he was their only source of income. They support a special needs child and are working through getting residency for the father. This family can be helped through the Empty Stocking Fund, an annual fundraising effort by the Odessa American and The Salvation Army.
Empty Stocking Funds go for a good holiday meal and small gifts under the tree. Donations to the Empty Stocking Fund may be mailed or delivered to the Salvation Army Community Center, 810 E. 11th St., or the Odessa American, 700 N. Grant, Suite 800. ZIP codes for both are 79761. Call the Salvation Army at 332-0738.
The Empty Stocking Fund was created by the Odessa American in 1995 and has raised more than $2.1 million.
The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)in intercessory prayer.
Today in the Mission Yearbook: December 2, 2021
RACIAL JUSTICE WORK - ABlacks, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color (BIPOC) are not simply those who are marginalized because of their race. They often find themselves working the hardest for racial justice. My friends of color tell me it is grueling to feel the oppression and to also be left with most of the responsibility for fighting it. Working toward racial justice can be exhausting. ...
ODESSA, TEXAS - The 27th year of the Empty Stocking Fund is underway and needs your help..
The goal is $100,000. A generous matching challenge from the Sewell Family of Companies has been offered to match donations up to $50,000..
Funds stay in Ector County and help needy families like that of Liz, not her real name..
She is a struggling single mom of four who wants a happy Christmas for her children. The family just moved to Texas and were forced to leave most of their toys and clothes behind. She said her children will take good care of any clothes or toys they receive through the Fund..
This family can be helped through the Empty Stocking Fund, an annual fundraising effort by the Odessa American and The Salvation Army. Empty Stocking Funds go for a good holiday meal and small gifts under the tree. Donations to the Empty Stocking Fund may be mailed or delivered to the Salvation Army Community Center, 810 E. 11th St., or the Odessa American, 700 N. Grant, Suite 800. ZIP codes for both are 79761. Call the Salvation Army at 332-0738. The Empty Stocking Fund was created by the Odessa American in 1995 and has raised more than $2.1 million.
GARDENDALE, TEXAS - Wesley Meeks worked for a long time as a policeman and a Child Protective Services investigator, but he always had becoming a minister in the back of his mind and he has now acted on that ambition.
Recently appointed minister of the Gardendale Church of Christ at 4448 E. Morning Glory Road, Meeks enjoys preaching on the interrelatedness of the Old and New Testaments. “I preach about anything in the Bible, mostly the good news of the Gospel,” he said.
“Part of my mission is to make sure the congregation is exposed to the entire Bible because the Old Testament is also there for our learning,” he said.
“In it, we see the way God wants us to live. It would be a shame to ignore all that knowledge and the examples of the Old Testament that point all the way through to Jesus Christ.”
Meeks is a 60-year-old Gatesville native who graduated from high school in Waco, studied criminal justice at McLennan County Community College and served as an officer with the Waco, Midland and Lamesa police departments from 1979 to 1992. He was also an adoptive assessor for two private placement agencies and a security officer at Midland Memorial Hospital. He and his wife Sherron have two children and two grandchildren.
An average of 35 people attends Gardendale Church of Christ at 10:30 a.m. Sunday with an additional dozen participating through Zoom video teleconferencing.
Meeks is a student at Sunset International Bible Institute in Lubbock whose father Weldon was a Church of Christ minister. “I had felt like I was supposed to do this for a number of years,” he said.
“I had part of my intestine cut off in 2020 and was in the hospital for four days. I had a lot of time to think because it was during the pandemic and I couldn’t have visitors. I realized I wasn’t getting any younger, so I decided to take a leap of faith. Through prayer and talking to Greg Fleming, co-minister of Downtown Church of Christ in Midland, it seemed like the right time ...
The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)in intercessory prayer.
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Today in the Mission Yearbook: December 1, 2021
WORLD AIDS DAY: PRESBYTERIAN HIV/AIDS AWARENESS - ALast September, the Youth Advocates Through Theater Arts, a group of thespians I work with, organized a webinar titled HIV HIV Haway (Haway is a local term that means “leave”). YATTA had partnered with the U.N. Population Fund, the Center for Health Solutions and Innovations Philippines and Y-PEER Pilipinas to promote HIV Combination Prevention. The initiative came with the assessment that the Philippines had one of the fastest-growing HIV epidemics in the world, mostly affecting young, marginalized people not easily reached by mainstream health services and programs ...
