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“The woman was suicidal,” says Guaren Long, administrative director and treasurer for Hillside (Alliance) Community Church in Wrightwood, California. “Honestly, counseling someone with such hopelessness was out of my realm, but I survived cancer 20 years ago and understood what it meant to be at a low point. I was not threatened by Mary’s* words [...]

The double amputee encouraged and challenged the Alliance military chaplains, who represented all branches of service. “What is your spiritual mission?”

By Pastor Vaughn White, Wadena Alliance Church
When an EF4 tornado hit the city of Wadena, Minnesota, on the afternoon of June 17, 2010, Wadena Alliance Church was thrust into an unexpected ministry. Winds of 170-175 miles per hour carved a half-mile-wide swath one mile south of the city that continued for several miles, causing great [...]

Using bedpans as offering plates, 243 children attending Vacation Bible School (VBS) at Hawley (Minnesota) Alliance Church, raised $1,220 to partner with the Burkina Faso mission field to provide water filtration systems for Burkinabé children, who suffer from dysentery because of contaminated water and lack of latrines.
Although Alliance international workers Steve and Amy Nehlsen have [...]

Editor’s Note: Having served as Alliance international workers in Dominican Republic for more than 10 years, John and Colleen Schleh have seen God’s power work mightily in the hearts and lives of the Dominican people. Following is a poignant account of faithful believers who gave out of their poverty, putting in everything—all they had to live on (Mark 12:44).

At a time when believers in the United States are often discouraged from speaking openly about their faith in public settings, Alliance workers in Asia and Latin America have been welcomed into public schools to teach God’s truth.
In Paraguay last fall, C&MA international worker John Sappia and his colleagues at the Mi Esperanza Alliance Church [...]

 
By Alliance workers serving in marketplace ministries
Editor’s note: Alliance workers spent three months in a Middle Eastern country, where they unveiled the Alliance Marriage Encounter (ALMA) outreach. The couple has served in Latin America for more than two decades and has facilitated ministries that bring hope and healing to broken lives and marriages through Encounter [...]

Oahu, Hawaii, an island abundant with rainbows, tropical breezes, and sunny beaches, also is home to nine Alliance churches. The small congregation of Hawaii Kai Community Church is living out Alliance Core Values and C&MA DNA as it crosses the threshold of every door that God opens to ministry.

U.S. Alliance leaders announced today that, for the first time in 12 years, C&MA budget was met at the end of the fiscal year. That such a blessing occured in the midst of the nation’s great economic upheaval gives cause for the Alliance family to celebrate.

The following is an excerpt from Betsy Blanchard’s recent newsletter. Betsy serves with The Alliance in Spain, where she and a small team are establishing Cinderella’s House, a ministry for women exploited by sex trafficking and prostitution.
A pioneer ministry takes time. Preparing for a season of rich harvest can be slow going- sometimes confusing and [...]