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34. Hotel rooms on the upper east side of Manhattan are unaffordable for many who travel there for chemotherapy and radiation treatment at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. But William Hanousek, pastor of Bethany Memorial Reformed Church, helped pioneer a solution. The church, located across the street from the hospital, converted six of its rooms into lodging for cancer patients and their families. The suggested donation of $10 per night is a welcome relief from the local hotel rates.

35. Helping inner-city teenagers experience the Allegheny National Forest is the mission of William Coplin, executive director of Urban Christian Ministries in Buffalo, New York. In UCM's Wilderness Program, youth hear the gospel and learn discipleship, teamwork, and leadership skills as they go hiking, rappelling, backpacking, and rock climbing. Coplin says he wants the teens to realize "that there's a whole other world out there away from youth violence."

36. While leading classes in bread making, creation of desserts, and other cooking skills, Laurie Ingram, a Southern Baptist missionary to Belgium, talks about the Bread of Life. Ingram conducts sessions in private businesses and schools.

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37. The Anastasis, one of three vessels operated by Mercy Ships of Lindale, Texas, docked in Togo and Madagascar last year. Together doctors treated more than 10,000 people on land and performed 898 surgeries on board, including 585 eye operations, many of which gave sight to children who were blind since birth.

38. Buses International turns old, yellow school buses into medical and dental clinics on wheels. Eight have been sent to Mexico, two to Honduras, and one each to Guatemala, El Salvador, Haiti, and southern Illinois. The buses are supervised by missionaries who recruit volunteer doctors and dentists to undertake medical tours in destitute areas.

39. The Palmer Home for Children in Columbus, Mississippi, has used its ten cottages to provide homes for 80 orphaned or abused children, attempting to keep siblings together and give the children a Christian upbringing. Alumni include former cochair of the National Republican Committee, Evelyn McPhail, and former vice president of the Tandy Corporation, Bill Kimbrell.

40.Voice of Calvary Ministries recently renovated its sixty-fifth house in one neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi, and its thirty-fifth house in another. With the help of Christian volunteers and the families who now live in the refurbished homes, the ministry transformed the dilapidated image of these two neighborhoods while also giving home-ownership training and spiritual counsel to the families.

41. By miming the gospel on a two-month tour this past spring, EPPIC Ministries International saw 20 Italians in Rome become Christians and 250 people in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya, and the M'bale region.

42. The Walter Hoving Home for Women in Garrison, New York, takes in women who are drug addicts, alcoholics, and prostitutes and guides them through a year of morning Bible studies and afternoon job-training sessions. Each year 15 to 20 successfully complete the courses and live productive lives.

43.Columbia International University this year awarded need-based scholarships to 30 international students who otherwise would not be able to attend the school. They included students from Romania, Trinidad, Iran, Nigeria, Lebanon, and Micronesia.

44.Enough Is Enough spearheaded a national public-awareness campaign on the need to make the Internet safe for children. One result was the implementation of effective library Internet access policies in the Loudoun County, Virginia, public library system.

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November 17 1997, Vol. 41, No. 13