In the News ... "Orthodox Rabbi coming to Midland for a Shabbaton"

• Help break down some barriers that exist between Orthodox and the non-Jewish in the area

Erin Stone, Reporter
Midland Reporter-Telegram

MIDLAND, TEXAS - James Schoonover doesn't look like your typical Midlander. That’s because he is wearing tzitzit and a kippah, traditional garb worn by Orthodox Jewish men. And there are few Orthodox Jews in the Midland-Odessa area.

Even within Judaism, Orthodox Jews are a minority, but on Nov. 27 and 28, there will be an opportunity for community members who are Orthodox, reform, or simply interested in learning about Judaism to come together and participate in a Shabbaton, a weekend of teaching and fellowship ...

 • read the rest of this MRT report

Student group's annual canned food drive begins TOMORROW at Midland College

File photo from the start of last year's drive.

From Terry Gilmour
MC Government Professor, Honors Program Director

The Student Government Association (SGA) at Midland College will be holding its annual Canned Food drive to benefit the Memorial Christian Church Food Pantry beginning next week, on Monday, November 23..

If you notice some good sales on canned goods, please pick up a few and bring next week. There will be boxes in the MHAB Atrium, Fox, AFA and the Student Center. The drive will continue for two weeks, unril Friday, December 4, and then the proceeds will be picked up during the week of finals.

All food pantries seem to be experiencing shortages this year so we really appreciate your support!

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From Deonne Pressley
Secretary to Institutional Advancement & MC Foundation

I can attest to the food pantries running low. See [this link] about the shortage of food at the West Texas Food Bank. Also, see attached a few pictures of the food pantry (not Memorial Christian Church’s Pantry) that I work at on Saturdays. We served 1000 individuals (more than half are children under the age of 18) and you can also see our lines. Hunger is a REAL thing in Midland right now (and most of our clients are holding 2-4 jobs). Please support this great cause with Student Government.

From Pamela Howell
MC English Professor

I know of the Jubilee Center that I help support: their family volume is WAY up, too.

All food is good food! Be thoughtful and generous to our fellow Midlanders if you can! Be the Light.

From Nancy Hart
MC Professor (retired)

Yes, Jubilee Center had their Thanksgiving pantry last weekend and the shelves are bare. They fed 240 families.

C.S. Lewis Daily - Today's Reading

Presented by Bible Gateway

Today's Reading

The Teacher explains our power to choose:

‘There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.’

• From The Great Divorce
• Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis

"No Room at the Inn" ... TODAY at Grace Presbyterian

Family Promise of Midland proudly presents:
"No Room At The Inn"
A collection of Nativity scenes and
displays from around the world!
Saturday, November 21, 2015 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
TODAY!
at Grace Presbyterian Church,
2801 N. Garfield, Midland, Texas

We invite everyone to come out and experience the true meaning of Christmas. Close to 300 Nativity scenes from around the world will be displayed for your viewing pleasure.

Take time out from your busy schedule to be overcome with the joyful and rejoiceful feelings Christ’s birth brings us. This is a great event to be experienced by the whole family!

While the nativity displays are certainly the focus of the day, there is so much more to enjoy, as well ... including festive holiday treats and plenty of warm seasonal fellowship. Proceeds raised by this annual event benefit Family Promise of Midland, an interfaith hospitality network and partnership of congregations around the Midland community helping families who are facing homelessness.

C.S. Lewis Daily - Today's Reading

Presented by Bible Gateway

Today's Reading

On humility.

For each of us the Baptist’s words are true: “He must increase and I decrease.” He will be infinitely merciful to our repeated failures; I know no promise that He will accept a deliberate compromise. For He has, in the last resort, nothing to give us but Himself; and He can give that only in so far as our self-affirming will retires and makes room for Him in our souls.

• From The Weight of Glory
• Compiled in Words to Live By

From ServLife International: "Compassion"

ServLife International is a movement defined by values of God’s kingdom, not programs built around human efforts and activities. The reign and rule of God should be made apparent to every person on the planet, despite their religion, race or socioeconomic status. We believe that issues of justice are inseparable from the good news that Jesus Christ came to proclaim. ServLife exists to take the gospel of Christ and the hope of a better, more just, world to the lives of people we touch. This happens through individual contributions of time, creativity, resources and dreams.

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Compassion

In Matthew 20 Jesus says whoever wants to be great in His Kingdom must be a servant to all. Even the King of kings didn’t come to be served, but to serve others. Jesus doesn’t condemn the pursuit of greatness, but rather points out the upside down nature of greatness and that pursuit in God’s Kingdom. Immediately after saying this, Jesus serves two blind men by healing them. His motivation is in the last verse, “Jesus had compassion on them.” We should pursue greatness through service, not for fame but driven by compassion ...

• CLICK HERE to read the rest of this post from ServLife

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From Adam Nevins
Executive Director
ServLife International Inc.


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"No Room at the Inn" ... TOMORROW at Grace Presbyterian

Photos by Jeff McDonald

Family Promise of Midland proudly presents:
"No Room At The Inn"
A collection of Nativity scenes and
displays from around the world!
Saturday, November 21, 2015 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
at Grace Presbyterian Church,
2801 N. Garfield, Midland, Texas

We invite everyone to come out and experience the true meaning of Christmas. Close to 300 Nativity scenes from around the world will be displayed for your viewing pleasure.

Take time out from your busy schedule to be overcome with the joyful and rejoiceful feelings Christ’s birth brings us. This is a great event to be experienced by the whole family!

While the nativity displays are certainly the focus of the day, there is so much more to enjoy, as well ... including festive holiday treats and plenty of warm seasonal fellowship. Proceeds raised by this annual event benefit Family Promise of Midland, an interfaith hospitality network and partnership of congregations around the Midland community helping families who are facing homelessness.

In the News ... "Preacher rises to challenge of ministry"

OA Photo by Jacob Ford

• “Truth without love is hard, and love without truth is soft”

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
Odessa American
 

ODESSA, TEXAS - The Rev. Lyndel Lee Sr. has come a long way since dropping out of high school, getting a GED and wondering what life would hold.

“I was working at a grocery store as a senior, and everyone else there was already out of high school,” said the Rev. Lee, pastor of Tanglewood Baptist Church at 3737 Tanglewood Lane. “I was driving to school one morning in Fort Worth and just turned around and never went back to school” ...

• read the rest of this OA report ...

C.S. Lewis Daily - Today's Reading

Presented by Bible Gateway

Today's Reading

TO MARY VAN DEUSEN: On the difference between wordless prayer and the practice of the presence of God (the spirituality of the seventeenth century Carmelite, Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection); on loving others too much; and on what time of day to pray.

25 November 1952

No, by wordless prayer I didn’t mean the practice of the Presence of God. I meant the same mental act as in verbal prayer only without the words. The Practice of the Presence is a much higher activity. I don’t think it matters much whether an absolutely uninterrupted recollection of God’s presence for a whole lifetime is possible or not. A much more frequent and prolonged recollection than we have yet reached certainly is possible. Isn’t that enough to work on? A child learning to walk doesn’t need to know whether it will ever be able to walk 40 miles in a day: the important thing is that it can walk to-morrow a little further and more steadily than it did to-day.

I don’t think we are likely to give too much love and care to those we love. We might put in active care in the form of assistance when it would be better for them to act on their own: i.e., we might be busybodies. Or we might have too much ‘care’ for them in the sense of anxiety. But we never love anyone too much: the trouble is always that we love God, or perhaps some other created being, too little.

As to the ‘state of the world’ if we have time to hope and fear about it, we certainly have time to pray. I agree it is very hard to keep one’s eyes on God amid all the daily claims and problems. I think it wise, if possible, to move one’s main prayers from the last-thing-at-night position to some earlier time: give them a better chance to infiltrate one’s other thoughts.

• From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis
• Compiled in Yours, Jack

"No Room at the Inn" ... THIS weekend at Grace Presbyterian

Photos by Jeff McDonald

Family Promise of Midland proudly presents:
"No Room At The Inn"
A collection of Nativity scenes and
displays from around the world!
Saturday, November 21, 2015 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
at Grace Presbyterian Church,
2801 N. Garfield, Midland, Texas

We invite everyone to come out and experience the true meaning of Christmas. Close to 300 Nativity scenes from around the world will be displayed for your viewing pleasure.

Take time out from your busy schedule to be overcome with the joyful and rejoiceful feelings Christ’s birth brings us. This is a great event to be experienced by the whole family!

While the nativity displays are certainly the focus of the day, there is so much more to enjoy, as well ... including festive holiday treats and plenty of warm seasonal fellowship. Proceeds raised by this annual event benefit Family Promise of Midland, an interfaith hospitality network and partnership of congregations around the Midland community helping families who are facing homelessness.

In the News ... Soup Kitchen Ministry delivers fresh meals with friendly faces

MRT Photo

• A way to feed the needy, spread the word of Christ

Trent Johnson, Reporter
Midland Reporter-Telegram

MIDLAND, TEXAS - On weekdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Midland Soup Kitchen Ministry’s doors are wide open for passersby willing to walk across brand new wooden floors for a hot meal. Whether it's chicken or the chef’s often requested chili, the ministry has a plate, a drink and a seat for anyone who comes in the building.

“We don’t ask any questions, we want anybody and everybody coming here,” director and head chef Nancy Ivy, 38, said.

Lately, the former city gymnasium has been getting more crowded due to both the economy and temperatures dropping to uncomfortable levels ...

• read the rest of this MRT report

C.S. Lewis Daily - Today's Reading

Presented by Bible Gateway

Today's Reading

The letter and spirit of scripture, and of all Christianity, forbid us to suppose that life in the New Creation will be a sexual life; and this reduces our imagination to the withering alternative either of bodies which are hardly recognisable as human bodies at all or else of a perpetual fast. As regards the fast, I think our present outlook might be like that of a small boy who, on being told that the sexual act was the highest bodily pleasure should immediately ask whether you ate chocolates at the same time. On receiving the answer ‘No,’ he might regard absence of chocolates as the chief characteristic of sexuality. In vain would you tell him that the reason why lovers in their carnal raptures don’t bother about chocolates is that they have something better to think of. The boy knows chocolate: he does not know the positive thing that excludes it. We are in the same position. We know the sexual life; we do not know, except in glimpses, the other thing which, in Heaven, will leave no room for it. Hence where fullness awaits us we anticipate fasting. In denying that sexual life, as we now under- stand it, makes any part of the final beatitude, it is not of course necessary to suppose that the distinction of sexes will disappear. What is no longer needed for biological purposes may be expected to survive for splendour. Sexuality is the instrument both of virginity and of conjugal virtue; neither men nor women will be asked to throw away weapons they have used victoriously. It is the beaten and the fugitives who throw away their swords. The conquerors sheathe theirs and retain them. ‘Trans-sexual’ would be a better word than ‘sexless’ for the heavenly life.

• From Miracles
• Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis

WAW Wednesday ... Amy's Account of Her Visit

"The Word at Work is a ministry that mobilizes churches and individuals to answer God's call to minister to those in need," writes Rev. Tim Tam, Director of the Amarillo, Texas-based ministry. "Through our relationships, God reveals needs and opportunities for service. As we come along side the poor, new friendships develop and doors for ministry open. As we serve, God provides the resources to supply for the needs he reveals."

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Amy's Account of Her Visit

Hopelessness. Forlorn. Abandoned. Isolation. Lonely. Angry. These are just a few words some might use to describe the feeling of being in prison. In the Belize Central Prison, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. And if I had not seen it with my own eyes, I would not have believed it. Under the leadership of the Kolbe Foundation, a non-profit, non-governmental agency, this particular prison is described with words such as hope, togetherness, fellowship and love. John Woods of the Kolbe Foundation is a true beacon of optimism while maintaining the necessary order and structure of the prison system.

During my visit to Belize Central Prison, I witnessed John’s leadership and that of the foundation in some very surprisingly heartwarming ways given the context:

   • all of the prison staff treat the inmates with dignity, a kind eye and a soft hand
   • inspirational messages and uplifting songs permeate the campus via the prison radio station, Jeremiah 33.3
   • in Tango 1, the name given to the first cell block, Lisa Haywood, The Word at Work full-time volunteer, is leading a bible study called "Experiencing God"
   • the prisoners go through a 12-step program under the personal and loving care of Pastor Burns

Pastor Burns

The Word at Work comes alongside the Kolbe Foundation at Christmas to provide calling cards to prisoners during a time we all love to connect with family and friends. We thought you might appreciate an opportunity to provide a $25 calling card to a prisoner for them to connect with their loved ones (total cost of project is $3,000). If you can think of someone else who may find joy in learning about this project, please pass this along to them.

• CLICK HERE to donate

If you or someone you know is interested in hearing John Woods speak on Thursday, December 3rd in Ocean Springs, MS, please contact Amy Travis at amy@twaw.org or (228) 327-5757.

TT (Tim Tam)
The Word at Work

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Speaking from my own first-hand experience - working side-by-side with Tim, Kenny and our brothers and sisters in Belize - won't you give thoughtful, prayerful consideration to supporting the efforts of Tim, the Word At Work staff and their partners? Please please fill out this Commitment Card and return it to their office!

Also, remember that you can follow The Word At Work on their Facebook page!

Equal Exchange Blog ... "Direct Trade Is Fair Trade (Without the Other Eight Principles)"

Equal Exchange's mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers and to demonstrate, through our success, the contribution of worker co-operatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.

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Direct Trade Is Fair Trade (Without the Other Eight Principles)

I regularly look at product labels because that is part of my job. So when I come across a label that says Direct Trade, or even “Direct Trade Certified,” I have to wonder why a brand would compel themselves to create something for consumers in order to differentiate themselves that really doesn’t mean much ...

• CLICK HERE to read the rest of this post

In the News ... "Hill draws on pioneer traditions"

OA Photo by Mark Sterkel

• “God has taken me through some powerful experiences”

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
Odessa American
 

GARDENDALE, TEXAS - The Rev. Andy Hill grew in “a very traditional” Southern Baptist church, and it took a long journey as a Marine, policeman and missionary to Mexico to reach his pastorate at the West Texas Cowboy Church.

“In Mexico, all that tradition was stripped away,” he said. “There was no building, no carpet, no stained glass windows, just me and a bunch of Mexican cowboys under a shade tree with the Word of God. It helped me understand that church is all about relationships” ...

• read the rest of this OA report ...

Invitation to Prayer from Faces of Children ... TODAY

Faces of Children is an ecumenical prayer ministry under the auspices of First Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas. Our mission is to initiate ministries of prayer for children in churches, communities, and neighborhoods. In doing so, we seek to provide an opportunity for people of God to join together, learn about children and their needs throughout the world, and celebrate Christ's love (especially as it relates to children).

Hi Friends,

I hope you can join us TODAY (Wednesday, November 18) at 11:30 for prayer in the gym conference room.

Dear Intercessors,

It seems the world exploded this week. Terrorist attacks in Paris led to politicians across our own country shouting yesterday that we should shut out the refugees, and they found a large and supportive audience even among the church. These are complicated issues, and I know solving this geo-political crisis requires more ingenuity, creativity, and deep social and political understanding than I have. I don't know much about politics, but as a follower of Jesus, I know we are called to something higher than self-preservation. I know that we are told to welcome the stranger, love our enemy, and pray for those who persecute us. I know we are told that perfect love casts out all fear and we are described as the light of the world; a city on a hill that cannot be hidden.

It seems the world is awash in arguments this week. I don't want to contribute more noise and divisiveness to a conversation that seems almost intractable. I don't know how to do it, but for the sake of our children -- for the sake of my own two beautiful daughters -- we have to find a different way; a way of hope and love and mercy and forgiveness and seeing the beauty of our common humanity. So this week, I want us to take a moment and look at the faces of children on the run from ISIS. Children that many of our own politicians have said would not be welcome coming to us for shelter. Please read their stories and pray however the Spirit leads you.

Photojournalist Magnus Wennman traveled around Europe and the Middle East, capturing these children of war as they tried to find some rest in a frightening, uncertain world. These images come from his series; see the full collection here.

Walaa, 5, in Dar-El-Ias.
Walaa wants to go home. She had her own room in Aleppo, she tells us. There, she never used to cry at bedtime. Here, in the refugee camp, she cries every night. Resting her head on the pillow is horrible, she says, because nighttime is horrible. That was when the attacks happened. By day, Walaa's mother often builds a little house out of pillows, to teach her that they are nothing to be afraid of.

Lamar, 5, sleeping on the ground in Horgos, Serbia.
Back home in Baghdad the dolls, the toy train, and the ball are left; Lamar often talks about these items when home is mentioned. The bomb changed everything. The family was on its way to buy food when it was dropped close to their house. It was not possible to live there anymore, says Lamar's grandmother, Sara. After two attempts to cross the sea from Turkey in a small, rubber boat they succeeded in coming here to Hungary's closed border. Now Lamar sleeps on a blanket in the forest, scared, frozen, and sad.

Fara, 2, asleep in Azraq, Jordan.
Fara loves soccer. Her dad tries to make balls for her by crumpling up anything he can find, but they don't last long. Every night he says goodnight to Fara and her big sister Tisam, 9, in the hope that tomorrow will bring them a proper ball to play with. All other dreams seem to be beyond his reach, but he is not giving up on this one.

All the best,

Carrie J. McKean
Faces of Children Director
First Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas
(432) 684-7821 x153

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If you have prayer requests about children, those who care for them, those who have authority over them, or those who harm them (the really hard prayers to say sometimes), please send them to info@facesofchildren.net

C.S. Lewis Daily - Today's Reading

Presented by Bible Gateway

Today's Reading

“Peter,” said Lucy, “where is this, do you suppose?”. . . “If you ask me,” said Edmund, “it’s like somewhere in the Narnian world. Look at those mountains ahead—and the big ice-mountains beyond them. Surely they’re rather like the mountains we used to see from Narnia, the ones up Westward beyond the Waterfall?”. . .

“And yet they’re not like,” said Lucy. “They’re different. They have more colors on them and they look further away than I remembered and they’re more . . . more . . . oh, I don’t know . . .”

“More like the real thing,” said the Lord Digory softly. . . .

“But how can it be?” said Peter. “For Aslan told us older ones that we should never return to Narnia, and here we are.”

“Yes,” said Eustace. “And we saw it all destroyed and the sun put out.”

“And it’s all so different,” said Lucy.

“The Eagle is right,” said the Lord Digory. “Listen, Peter. When Aslan said you could never go back to Narnia, he meant the Narnia you were thinking of. But that was not the real Narnia. That had a beginning and an end. It was only a shadow or a copy of the real Narnia which has always been here and always will be here: just as our own world, England and all, is only a shadow or copy of something in Aslan’s real world. You need not mourn over Narnia, Lucy. All of the old Narnia that mattered, all the dear creatures, have been drawn into the real Narnia through the Door. And of course it is different; as different as a real thing is from a shadow or as waking life is from a dream.” His voice stirred everyone like a trumpet as he spoke these words: but when he added under his breath “It’s all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at these schools!” the older ones laughed. It was so exactly like the sort of thing they had heard him say long ago in that other world where his beard was grey instead of golden. He knew why they were laughing and joined in the laugh himself. But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes. . . .

It was the Unicorn who summed up what everyone was feeling. He stamped his right fore-hoof on the ground and neighed, and then cried:

“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this. Bree-hee-hee! Come further up, come further in!”

• From The Last Battle
• Compiled in A Year with Aslan

Invitation to Prayer from Faces of Children ... TOMORROW

Faces of Children is an ecumenical prayer ministry under the auspices of First Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas. Our mission is to initiate ministries of prayer for children in churches, communities, and neighborhoods. In doing so, we seek to provide an opportunity for people of God to join together, learn about children and their needs throughout the world, and celebrate Christ's love (especially as it relates to children).

Hi Friends,

I hope you can join us TOMORROW (Wednesday, November 18) at 11:30 for prayer in the gym conference room.

Also, local intercessor Jeff McDonald has shared about this event happening TONIGHT at Midland College ... The Midland College student organization Voice for the Sold will be hosting a viewing of the documentary Not My Life on Tuesday, November 17, at 6:00 p.m. in Room 101 of the Marie Hall Academic Building. The film takes viewers into a world where millions of children are exploited, every day, through an astonishing array of practices. MC students and employees, and members of the Midland community are welcome to attend.

Dear Intercessors,

It seems the world exploded this week. Terrorist attacks in Paris led to politicians across our own country shouting yesterday that we should shut out the refugees, and they found a large and supportive audience even among the church. These are complicated issues, and I know solving this geo-political crisis requires more ingenuity, creativity, and deep social and political understanding than I have. I don't know much about politics, but as a follower of Jesus, I know we are called to something higher than self-preservation. I know that we are told to welcome the stranger, love our enemy, and pray for those who persecute us. I know we are told that perfect love casts out all fear and we are described as the light of the world; a city on a hill that cannot be hidden.

It seems the world is awash in arguments this week. I don't want to contribute more noise and divisiveness to a conversation that seems almost intractable. I don't know how to do it, but for the sake of our children -- for the sake of my own two beautiful daughters -- we have to find a different way; a way of hope and love and mercy and forgiveness and seeing the beauty of our common humanity. So this week, I want us to take a moment and look at the faces of children on the run from ISIS. Children that many of our own politicians have said would not be welcome coming to us for shelter. Please read their stories and pray however the Spirit leads you.

Photojournalist Magnus Wennman traveled around Europe and the Middle East, capturing these children of war as they tried to find some rest in a frightening, uncertain world. These images come from his series; see the full collection here.

Walaa, 5, in Dar-El-Ias.
Walaa wants to go home. She had her own room in Aleppo, she tells us. There, she never used to cry at bedtime. Here, in the refugee camp, she cries every night. Resting her head on the pillow is horrible, she says, because nighttime is horrible. That was when the attacks happened. By day, Walaa's mother often builds a little house out of pillows, to teach her that they are nothing to be afraid of.

Lamar, 5, sleeping on the ground in Horgos, Serbia.
Back home in Baghdad the dolls, the toy train, and the ball are left; Lamar often talks about these items when home is mentioned. The bomb changed everything. The family was on its way to buy food when it was dropped close to their house. It was not possible to live there anymore, says Lamar's grandmother, Sara. After two attempts to cross the sea from Turkey in a small, rubber boat they succeeded in coming here to Hungary's closed border. Now Lamar sleeps on a blanket in the forest, scared, frozen, and sad.

Fara, 2, asleep in Azraq, Jordan.
Fara loves soccer. Her dad tries to make balls for her by crumpling up anything he can find, but they don't last long. Every night he says goodnight to Fara and her big sister Tisam, 9, in the hope that tomorrow will bring them a proper ball to play with. All other dreams seem to be beyond his reach, but he is not giving up on this one.

All the best,

Carrie J. McKean
Faces of Children Director
First Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas
(432) 684-7821 x153

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If you have prayer requests about children, those who care for them, those who have authority over them, or those who harm them (the really hard prayers to say sometimes), please send them to info@facesofchildren.net

In the News ... "West Texas Food Bank sees ‘dramatic’ increase in emergency food boxes"

MRT File Photo by Cindeka Nealy

• Seeking food, funds, volunteers

Staff Report
Midland Reporter-Telegram

ODESSA/MIDLAND, TEXAS - The West Texas Food Bank reports doubling the number of emergency food boxes distributed In October.

The number of boxes distributed in October was 319, which was a “dramatic” increase compared to the 153 distributed in October 2014, according to a press release ...

 • read the rest of this MRT story

Voice for the Sold to host documentary screening ... TONIGHT

The Midland College student organization Voice for the Sold will be hosting a viewing of the documentary Not My Life ... TONIGHT ... Tuesday, November 17, at 6:00 p.m. in Room 101 of Marie Hall Academic Building.

Filmed on five continents, in a dozen countries, Not My Life - described as "a story about the way the world is" - takes viewers into a world where millions of children are exploited, every day, through an astonishing array of practices including forced labor, domestic servitude, begging, sex tourism, sexual violence, and child soldiering.

MC students and employees, and members of the Midland community are welcome to attend.

Questions should be directed to the organization’s advisors Frank DeLaO at fdelao@midland.edu or Jenny Garnica at jgarnica@midland.edu