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Yes. I am a missionary; this is mission work. It’s not the same as the great missionaries who went where there was no written language and tried to translate the Bible, living in a place for twenty years before they had one convert. I think of those people, and in comparison, what I’m doing is hard, but not as hard as other missionary endeavors around the world.

Going to Wheaton College, where there’s a great emphasis on missions, I never pictured myself as a missionary. I’m laughing at myself, looking at the situation I’m in now. It’s humbling—really humbling. We never know where God’s going to take us.

More.

H/T THUNDERSTRUCK

The title of the article:

One Woman’s Choice:
After a Prenatal Test Shows Down Syndrome, A Wrenching Decision

“So when do you go for the abortion?” my friend asked, her voice sympathetic.

“Wednesday,” I replied, and then hurriedly got off the phone. I called Mike, my boyfriend, in tears, complaining about how inconsiderate people are, how no one thinks before they speak. The truth was, until I heard the word “abortion,” it hadn’t occurred to me that I was actually having one.

Later, one of my teammates suggested that I tell others I had a miscarriage.
“You never know how people will react,” he said.

My mother, too, was a proponent of the miscarriage story. She told two of my brothers the truth; she told the third that I’d suddenly lost the baby. That brother’s wife was a Catholic, and my mother was taking no chances.
“People are funny,” she said.

I’ve heard the abortion debate my whole life, and while I was a newspaper reporter I had covered stories about clinic bombings and protests. I interviewed Randall Terry of Operation Rescue when I was in my twenties …

The whole story.

H/T News Forum

Delegates to the 55th National Council of Churches (NCC) General Assembly nominated an Orthodox bishop as president-elect and reconfirmed the need to strengthen ties with Orthodox churches within the Council.

Bishop Vicken Aykazian, a Turkish-born priest who represents the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America in Washington, was nominated on Tuesday – the first day of the Nov. 8-10 General Assembly in Hunt Valley, Md. If confirmed, he will serve for two years as president-elect and be automatically confirmed as president for the next term.

Also on Tuesday, former NCC president Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky of the Orthodox Church in America encouraged members to become “better acquainted with one another to avoid misrepresentation and miscommunication.

On the Antiochians’ recent withdrawal from this group, the OCA rep said:

According to Kishkovsky, the Antiochian withdrawal was “particularly alarming to Orthodox” members of the Council because of fears their move “could have been dramatic in the lives of other Orthodox communions.”

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