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South Africa: prayer for solutions
It’s hard to open a newspaper in South Africa without being saddened by front-page stories about police corruption and brutality, the abuse of women, and the misuse of political power. Yet, almost everyone you meet shows some measure of hope and a determination to help make things better—very often through prayer.
For example, one of the senior ministers in His People Johannesburg church told me when I visited South Africa recently that during their 15 worship services every Sunday they try to be proactive in bringing about a change in values in South Africa. “We constantly marvel at the way Jesus chose ordinary people to change the world through acts of kindness and love,” he said. “We are concerned to promote multiculturalism at the personal level, and cross the barriers of racism, sexism, and ageism, with a special thrust toward young people.”

June 17, 2013 issue
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Letters
Kathy Woodbury, Shari Juntunen, Janice Douglas
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You have no expiration date
Pam DeBolt
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Lean on ME
Larry Wolfe
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Relate to teens: share a healing!
Deborah Peck
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Inside help
Walter Rodgers
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Beside still waters
Text and photograph by Maggie Johnson
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Questions (and answers) about origin
Madelon Maupin
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South Africa: prayer for solutions
Kim Shippey
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Breaking barriers in Peru
Timothy Steckler
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Multiple sclerosis healed
Suzann Wittenberg with contributions from Larry Wittenberg
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Pain quickly dissolves
Michael Gamble
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Free from sore throat
Stella Mesquita
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Skin condition gone
Patricia Brugioni
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Painful finger back to normal
Ursula Müller
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Cutting-edge discovery
The Editors