It is estimated that four billion people in the world are oral communicators. This means that those people can’t, don’t, or won’t take in new information and communicate through a literate paradigm. Orality is reliance on the spoken word rather than the written word. For most of us, this is […]
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Every year, multitudes contract communicable and noncommunicable diseases that affect quality of life. Many of these diseases could be prevented with health education, clean drinking water, proper sanitation, and medical workers. While the greatest need for improved health care is found outside of the West, post-industrialized countries are not exempt […]
Pressure Point #10 Health Care
The United Nations released a new report this morning stating that there are now more refugees and internally displaced persons in the world since 1994. You may find the related article here. The world is now home to 45.2 million displaced persons. Excluding what has taken place in Syria, here […]
New Record High Number of Refugees and IDPs
The pressure of poverty has always been with the Church and will remain until the Lord’s return. There have been many manifestations of this pressure point with each bringing numerous problems into the lives of those it engulfs. When Paul was delighted to “remember the poor” (Galatians 2:10, ESV), he […]
Pressure Point #7 Poverty
We now come to the halfway point through this series on Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church. I have linked the previous posts below. We live in the instant. Human interconnectedness has increased across the globe. On our phones, we can get news of protest […]
Pressure Point #6 Globalization
214 million people live outside of their countries of birth. This figure represents 3% of the world’s population. If it were a single country, it would represent the 5th largest nation in the world. The peoples of the world have been–and continue to be–on the move. This post in the […]