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Arts on the road

Around 30 artists take music, dance and drama to the streets of towns across Brazil to share God’s message of salvation with those they meet.




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Unity at the Olympics

Churches and organisations in Brazil united during the 2016 Olympics with the sole purpose of sharing the gospel.




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K-5 Family Crisis Therapists Engage Families, Children This Summer

WILMINGTON – Despite COVID-19, Family Crisis Therapists with the Delaware Children’s Department have continued to engage families with targeted early intervention programming to further social and development skills this summer. The K-5 Family Crisis Therapists (FCTs), through the Division of Prevention and Behavioral Health Services, work in elementary schools across our state helping children and […]



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Delaware Joins the ALL-IN Foster Adoption Challenge

WILMINGTON – Governor John Carney and the Delaware Children’s Department have joined the federal ALL-IN Foster Adoption Challenge, raising awareness of permanency efforts for children and youth in foster care. This challenge, spearheaded by the Administration for Children and Families, raises awareness and looks to build partnerships that focus on the goal of finding loving, permanent […]



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The Achievement Gap Isn't on Parents

A recent blog post by Walt Gardner ("The Hard Truth About the Achievement Gap," placed the blame for the achievement gap on one group above others: parents.




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The Challenging, Often Isolating Work of School District Chief Equity Officers

As some districts try to dismantle racist and biased policies and practices, they are creating high-profile positions to lead that public, sometimes hostile, reckoning.




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Start Early: Close the Achievement Gap Before It Starts

The non-marital birth rate to women age 24 and under was 71 percent in 2017. Here's what that means for educational outcomes and schools, according to guest blogger Ian Rowe.




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The Deficit Lens of the 'Achievement Gap' Needs to Be Flipped. Here's How

Does a student have a fixed or a growth mindset? That's the wrong question for us to measure, argues researcher Dave Paunesku.




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Does 'the Achievement Gap' Evoke a Negative Stereotype? What the Research Says

What we call education inequality defines how—and even if—we solve it, write three researchers.




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Poverty, Not Race, Fuels the Achievement Gap

A new analysis finds that high-poverty schools are the least effective. But why those schools stifle achievement is harder to figure out.




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The Dangerous Narrative That Lurks Under the 'Achievement Gap'

Black students are not to blame for their lack of educational opportunities, argues assistant principal Eric Higgins.




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Who's to Blame for the Black-White Achievement Gap?

Why don’t black students perform as well as white students on tests? One reporter considers her personal history to understand this disparity.




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How We Talk About the Achievement Gap Could Worsen Public Racial Biases Against Black Students

The way education media and policymakers frame education debates can have longer-term effects on how the public thinks about students, and which policies they are likely to support to improve students' learning.





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'Was I Part of the Problem?' A Journalist Studies Her Own Reporting on Race

Veteran reporter Debra Viadero invites researchers to scrutinize her decades of reporting for racial bias.




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Praying for the children

An OM Chile team member visits two children's homes each week to invest in the kids' lives. She asks people to join her in prayer.




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Singing on the bus

A participant of OM Chile's Intensive Training programme experiences a cultural adventure while riding on Santiago's city buses.




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Jesus on the front gate

The participants of the Intensive Training programme begin neighbourhood evangelism by gluing paintings about God's love to the sides of their front gate.




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Strengthening relationships through supper

In an effort to strengthen relationships with local churches, OM Chile recently held a dinner for local pastors that featured international flavours and testimonies.




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A friend on the streets

A student with OM Chile’s Intensive Mission Training and a man living on the streets of Santiago dream together about what heaven will be like.




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Successes and struggles in the children's home

OM Chile’s Children’s Ministry knows the power of God’s Word and the support of encouraging adults can change children’s lives.




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Sharing the Gospel with a cardboard coffin

Street evangelism - that’s how Nicolas ended up carrying a 2 meter high cardboard coffin on a bus across Santiago, Chile.




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I am the prodigal son

OM Chile's Agape ministry has been running an Alpha course in the day centre for homeless people. Bethany Lyttle shares of her experience there.




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A week for the Holy Spirit

For two days, the OM Chile Agape Team share with homeless people about the Holy Spirit and witness miracles.




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The miracle of a family meal

Jessie Stein tells the story of God's faithfulness in the midst of learning a foreign language and the struggles of a broken family.




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The Travelling marriage

A couple from Belgium travels through Latin America together in order to connect deeper with God and each other.




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Boldness to share the good news

Antofagasta, Chile :: A team of Logos Hope crewmembers pray for patients and their relatives at a hospital.




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Storytime, Meet Number Play: Early Math in the Home Matters for Later Skills

Preschool-age children who frequently play number-related games at home show better math skills and growth by the end of kindergarten, finds a new study in the journal Child Development.




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In Pandemic, Digital Access and Parents' Education Made the Biggest Difference in Schools' Response

A comprehensive look at how U.S. schools served students in the aftermath of the coronavirus closures finds that schools responded more fully in communities where parents' education levels were higher.




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Sorry seems to be the hardest word

A worker in Kazakhstan notes the impact of the gospel on the Kazakh language.




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God works when the lights go out

An electricity cut offers an opportunity for a Central Asian believer to share stories from the Bible with her family, who normally wouldn’t listen.




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The second wave

An OMer in Central Asia, working with women trapped in prostitution, explains a disturbing trend in the industry that she had never before considered.




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Freed from the marketplace

A sex worker in Kazakhstan finds freedom in Christ.




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The long arm of the Lord

A moving story of the anti-human trafficking outreach in Central Asia.




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From the streets to seminary

Azamat was living in the streets, but through the ministry of OM team members in Central Asia he moved into rehabilitation and then seminary.




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'Get out of my brothel!'

God is allowing OMers to slowly build relationships with the owners of a brothel in Central Asia.




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The Substitute goalie

An atheist's curiosity leads him to hear about God.




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Stories from the Silk Road

Participants serving in the annual Central Asian outreach experience God in new ways when they leave their comfort zones.




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The Holy of Holies

An athlete visiting Central Asia to compete in an international competition hears the gospel in depth.




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Shelter from the streets

A simple shelter in Central Asia provides a place for homeless women to get off the streets and connect with God.




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Living among the least reached

An OM couple shares their lives, their faith and their professional skills with unreached people in Central Asia.




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First fruit in the mountains

After years of living among a remote unreached people group, OMers see God draw the first local believers to Himself.




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The love of my Father is good

The Xenos team in Germany is delighted about Ibrahim, a Turkish man, who is following Jesus. This is the story of Ibrahim’s journey to faith in Christ.




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Reliving the Book of Acts

OM Germany's Xenos team met a few Iranians in an asylum seeker's home who wanted to know more about the Bible.




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The need to be important

A young Kurd struggles with feeling unimportant in the world, while another no longer worries because he knows who he is in Christ.




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'Park off' in front of the crib

The local church and OM Germany create a space for contemplation in the busyness of Halle's annual Christmas Fair.




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European youth gather for second-ever Mission-Net Congress

Mission-Net welcomes more than 2,500 people and 110 mission organisations from Europe and other parts of the world to Erfurt, Germany, this week.




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Power of the arts for witness

Artists, church leaders and business leaders will gather from 3-6 May for OM Arts International's first European Art Forum in Mosbach, Germany.




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Lighthouse in the community

OM Germany and a local church in Halle/Saale celebrate the opening of the Lighthouse, a café they hope will be a light in the city.




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The strangers among us

How OM's Xenos team makes a difference to some of the thousands of foreign immigrants in Germany