Posts Tagged ‘mission’

A cloud of joy

Today, more than 143 million children around the world have lost one or both parents. The African nation of Uganda has 2.3 million orphans, many of which have been forced into sex slavery and rebel armies. For many people, these overwhelming statistics are discouraging. How can one person begin to...

October 28th, 2009 | A&E, Music | Read More

Helping hands in Appalachia

Editor’s note: Sophomore Amanda Stravinsky spent the summer of 2009 working with Appalachian Outreach, a program that works with families in poverty in East Tennessee. Plastic bags rustle. Glassware clanks. Metal hangers ding and squeak as they’re pushed back and forth on four towering clothes racks...

October 28th, 2009 | Blogs/Opinion | Read More

On vast reservation, Pine Ridge faces extraordinary need

Poverty. Alcohol. Suicide. Hopelessness. Driving through the expansive state of South Dakota, the thought that such depressive destruction is rampant wouldn’t cross the mind; mountains and widespread fields stretch serenely for what seems like an eternity. Yet for the people of the Oglala Lakota Sioux...