by Steve Moore
5. Emily Wax, “A Loss of Hope Inside Darfur Refugee Camps,” Washington Post, April 30, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/29/AR2006042901223.html.
6. Stearns, Kindle location 1544–49, chapter 10.
7. Steve Monsma, Healing for a Broken World (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008), Kindle location 1764–73, chapter 8.
8. P. Robinson, “St. Francis of Assisi,” in The Catholic Encyclopedia (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909), http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06221a.htm.
9. Lindsay Robertson, “Anderson Cooper: ‘There's Just Stupid Death Happening Here Now,’” Daily Intel, January 16, 2010, http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/01/anderson_cooper_theres_just_st.html.
10. Stearns, Kindle location 1745–49, chapter 12.
11. Stearns, Kindle location 1777–82, chapter 12.
12. United Nations Children's Fund, The State of the World's Children, 2008.
13. Michael Finkel, “Stopping a Global Killer,” National Geographic, July 2007.
14. Global Issues Update, August 2009, The Mission Exchange.
15. Stearns, Kindle location 1919–20, chapter 12.
16. Bono's comments were only a matter of weeks after the tsunami; the death toll would eventually surpass 200,000.
17. Bono, Keynote Address (National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., February 2, 2006), http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/bononationalprayerbreakfast.htm.
18. Bono, foreword to The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Times, by Jeffrey D. Sachs (New York: Penguin Books, 2005).
CHAPTER 8: GOD'S PASSION FOR THE OPPRESSED
1. In diplomatic terms, this condition is referred to as “stateless.”
2. International Justice Mission fact sheet—Illegal Land Seizure.
3. See Free the Slaves, http://www.freetheslaves.net.
4. U.S. Department of State, “Trafficking in Persons Report.”
5. Kevin Bales in David Batsone, Not for Sale (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007), 1.
6. International Justice Mission fact sheet—Bonded Slavery.
7. From an interview on 60 Minutes, CBS, March 21, 2010.
8. See UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency, “UNHCR Annual Report Shows 42 Million People Uprooted Worldwide,” http://www.unhcr.org/print/4a2fd52412d.html.
9. Global Issues Update, June 2009, The Mission Exchange with International Justice Mission fact sheet, Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation.
CHAPTER 9: GOD'S PASSION FOR THE LOST
1. Timothy Keller, The Prodigal God (New York: Dutton Publishing Penguin Group, 2008), Kindle location 714–23, chapter 5.
2. Keller, Kindle location 723–33, chapter 5.
3. See Joshua Project, http://www.joshuaproject.net.
CHAPTER 10: WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?
1. The names in the story have been changed. The story is told with permission.
2. Zach Hunter, “Hey… ,” http://www.zachhunter.me/#/hey-.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
STEVE MOORE has been engaged with Great Commission initiatives for nearly three decades. He has provided leadership for short-term teams serving in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He has traveled to more than forty countries working with church and mission leaders in a training and leadership development context. His life mission is to inspire and equip others—especially leaders—to live a focused life, finish well, and join with God in blessing the nations.
Steve is the president and CEO of The Mission Exchange (formerly EFMA), where he gives leadership to networking, training, coaching, and consulting initiatives designed to increase the effectiveness of the Great Commission community and accelerate the fulfillment of the Great Commission. He also founded Keep Growing, Inc., to train, resource, and coach leaders to leverage personal development for organizational effectiveness.
Steve is the author of The Dream Cycle and While You Were Micro-Sleeping. He holds an MA in intercultural studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Sherry, are parents of four children and make their home outside of Atlanta, Georgia.
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