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6 Months Later: A Reason for Hope
Read more: 6 Months Later: A Reason for HopeOn friday the 17th of November, I got online to view updates on the state of Nigeria and the 219 girls still in captivity after being kidnapped from their boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria, on April 14th, 2014. For 6 months and 13 days, 219 young women and girls have been held. Bound. Crushed, silenced,…
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The Chibok Girls: Holding On to His Promises
Read more: The Chibok Girls: Holding On to His PromisesOn September 11th, 2014, news was made that Comrade Shehu Sani, President of the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, along with the Red Cross, started to join in talks with the Boko Haram to release 30 of the kidnapped women and girls from captivity in exchange for either 18 or 30 (mixed reports of both…
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A Quick Update
Read more: A Quick UpdateHey, beloved people! Thanks for reading through this blog and continually having those in Nigeria on your hearts and minds in prayer to our Lord. At this point, I have no new updates about Daphne’s medical situation (for those reading for the first time, Daphne’s situation is unrelated to that of the Chibok Girls, but…
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A New Breath. Breathed In.
Read more: A New Breath. Breathed In.I have a very urgent, unrelated prayer request for anyone who is reading this. I was sitting on my bed when I got the text. “Please please please be praying for Daphne… She’s in the hospital in Chicago with an extremely serious lung issue and has been put into an induced coma.” A thousand thoughts…
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The Women of Gwoza, Nigeria’s Youth, and the Nigerian Military: Fighting Against the Darkness
Read more: The Women of Gwoza, Nigeria’s Youth, and the Nigerian Military: Fighting Against the DarknessWe, as humans, were never created to experience death. Yet, in the town of Gwoza, lives have been ripped apart by it. Darkness seems to reign. Hands hang limp. Blood runs heavily. People are both literally and metaphorically crushed. After being asked one question, “Will you convert to Islam?” Men and children are beheaded, slashed, and…
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The People of Northern Nigeria: Fed, Clothed, Housed, Healed
Read more: The People of Northern Nigeria: Fed, Clothed, Housed, HealedHome. I reflect on how many times I’ve longed for it in the past. As a child on her first day of school, scared; as a tired traveler, after a long road trip; as a distressed teenager, needing to be alone with the Lord in my room. I think of how many times I’ve come…
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