Daniel Im

Pastor + Author

Archives for May 2011

Ending Prostitution in Canada

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Click on the image above to see this amazing website that will resource you in partnering to end prostitution in Canada.

Below are my notes from a seminar that Glendyne Gerrard, the director of Women’s Ministry in the Mid West District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance.

  • Prostitution is violence against women
  • Prostitutes start young
  • 84% of prostitutes have been sexually abused as children
  • Being abused seems to be a training ground for prostitution
  • First nations women are at the greatest risk in our country of being prostituted
    • 400 children were sexually exploited on the streets of Winnipeg last year
    • The youngest victim was 11
    • 84% of these children were aboriginal
  • Poverty is the number 1 reason women are forced into prostitution.
  • Abolition of prostitution is possible in our country!
  • Sweden demands to abolish prostitution

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An Artesian Spring Dialogue

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In the passage below, I love how Jesus exemplified dialogue education by being a guide on the side, rather than a sage on the stage. His love for the woman at the well and his disciples was clearly exemplified by his persistence to have them discover and encounter truth, and drink from the well of living artesian water.

Jesus accomplished this through dialogue and I want to do the same.

Jesus empowered the woman and his disciples through dialogue by hearing their stories, and I want to do the same.

I need to resist my tendency to assume that I understand those I am leading, and I need to engage them in dialogue by first hearing their story. It is only when I hear their story that I can faithfully teach them and love them in the way that Jesus would want me to.

“A woman, a Samaritan, came to draw water. Jesus said, “Would you give me a drink of water?” (His disciples had gone to the village to buy food for lunch.) [Read more…] about An Artesian Spring Dialogue

The Story of Jonah

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When’s the last time you’ve read the book of Jonah?

Try reading it through and see if you can make sense of this pictorial representation of the book.

Hint: The heart represents God’s heart for the nations of this world.