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2010 Starfish Community Expo

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Kyle Adams
37 Posts
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Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago, updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Please put the 2010 Starfish Community Expo on your calendar! The event will be: September 16-18, 2010 Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA Many of you were at the first Expo in October 2009, and I think it was a really productive time of sharing good ideas and making key connections ...

Nonprofit summer camps convicted of tax evasion

Rick Braschler
2 Posts
0 Votes 2 Replies 127 Views
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago, updated 7 months, 3 weeks ago
In Uzbekistan a court has convicted three Baptist leaders of tax evasion for nonprofit summer camps they run for hundreds of children each year. According to WORLD magazine Dec. 5, they were also charged with teaching religion to children without parents’ permission. Pavel Peychev, president of the Baptist Union of

Great Websites for People Groups

Kay Hiramine
62 Posts
1 Vote 1 Reply 160 Views
Posted 9 months ago, updated 8 months, 3 weeks ago
I am attending a meeting today in Southern California talking about strategies to work in different countries. One topic discussed was looking at the different people groups in countries around the world. Here are some valuable sites for you to look at if you are interested in people

Generations of Virtue *New Website*

Sara Raley
3 Posts
2 Votes 2 Replies 166 Views
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago, updated 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Generations of Virtue is excited to announce our new website launched just a few moments ago. Please visit our site and see the myriad of ways that we could assist with training in purity, virtue and abstinence around the world. www.generationsofvirtue.org

Connecting Businesspeople with Business Opportunities

Randy Valentine
15 Posts
3 Votes 9 Replies 240 Views
Posted 11 months ago, updated 10 months, 3 weeks ago
One of the things I'm tasked with at HISG is to connect business professionals with opportunities in our priority countries ... sustainable, holistic business opportunities. Tell me about your experiences -- either as a person giving assistance or as a person receiving assistance -- in this arena? In other words,