By Tom Davis Continued from Part 1: I could hardly believe what I was hearing. How many communities in Swaziland are also facing this sad reality? 46% is one thing, but 80% Lord Jesus. What can be done? Who is left to help care for the tidal wave of orphans left all alone? A nation … Continue reading Help! Half Our People Are Dying, Pt. 2
By Tom Davis I’ve often wondered what hell is like. What would it look like to visit hell? Ive wondered about this often, not for the pleasure, or the curiosity just the reality what its actually like there. The pictures in my mind, the sounds, the rotting smells are all too terrible to imagine. Death … Continue reading Help! Half Our People Are Dying, Pt. 1
By Amanda Petersen Last week there was an article about sex trade in Thailand. Amanda Petersen has been working with Wrecked since the beginning and recently left for Thailand. She has been there about two weeks. This is a story about her experience thus far with a little background about Nana Plaza. To many, Nana … Continue reading Grace for Sale
By Kim Kinsley Wrecked just sent our editor Amanda to Thailand to cover the sex trade there and help prostitutes find better jobs. To give you some perspective, this was written by Kim Kinsley on April 5, 2006 during her trip to Thailand : As we got out of the cab, a blanket of heaviness … Continue reading $1-2 Women
By Stephanie Fisk The pioneering spirit leads the adventurous through the wilderness. It beckons to the restless soul. The wanderer finds drive in the vision itself…in the unknown. Risk is not a word that indicates “caution”; instead it screams “you’re heading in the right direction; come just a little closer”. This apostolic spirit plows a … Continue reading Pioneering Spirit
By Scott Molgard From Swaziland, Africa: Gary’s son Tyler kept telling us about the crazy lion (the black maned male lion is the Swazi royal symbol, representing King Mswati III) that was living in an enclosure about a football field away from where we ate. He said if we shake the fence the lion would … Continue reading Crazy Lion, Foolish Men
By Cliff Rivera “If I am not for myself, who will be for me, and if I am only for myself, what am I, and if not now, when?” -Hillel I’ve been researching the Neo-Monastic movement within Church streams for a season now. I have to have faith in transparent community, like a school of … Continue reading Summer of Ahavah
By Charles Kaye It was our second day in Granada. With no food, water or electricity in our house, we wandered into the city for lunch. As we were finishing our meal, I looked down and saw a young boy who had crawled across the floor to our table. With tattered clothes and covered in … Continue reading The Breaking of Carlitos
By Josh Casper Is is he a man? asked Lucy. Aslan a man! said Mr. Beaver sternly. Certainly not. I tell you he is the King of wood and the son of the great Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea. Dont you know who is the King of the Beasts? Aslan is a lion the Lion, the great Lion. Ooh, … Continue reading To Touch the Dying: A summer with Word Made Flesh
By Jeff Goins, Editor Continued from Lucky $2 Bill: Introduction: I used to collect coins. About six months ago, I sold my coin collection to make some extra money and to simplify my possessions. I kept a $2 bill as a remembrance of that hobby. Ever since then, I had been carrying the bill around … Continue reading Lucky $2 Bill, Part II