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World AIDS Day 2007
(HT: IUSY) International statistics Last Updated: November 2007 People living with HIV 33.2 million people worldwide 30.8 million adults 15.4 million women 2.5 million children under 15 New HIV cases in 2007 2.5 million total new cases 2.1 million adults 420,000 children under 15 AIDS deaths in 2007 2.1 million total deaths 1.7 million adults [...]
World AIDS Day ACTION!!!!
My friends in Geneva at the Anglican UN Office Geneva have just released a report entitled, “Working Together!? The Anglican Response to HIV & AIDS in Africa“. It is a good comprehensive read. If you click on the title, you can down load the pdf. Here is the article about the article. The report took [...]
Thursday is for Greg, and Thomas..together!
Greg Boyd has been getting loads of feedback apparently about his entry entitled, “Washing Osama’s Feet”. Here is a link to his most recent entry, which is a follow up entry, entitled, “The Worst Heresy Imaginable”. On Tuesday I didn’t manage to get up a Tuesday is for Thomas, but maybe, that wasn’t so bad. [...]
Four Years Today
Today Laura and I celebrate four years of marriage together. Unfortunately, she is in Oklahoma, en route to Denver for her brothers wedding, and I am here in Brussels. As we were reflecting together the last couple of weeks on this year and the last several years of our marriage, we’ve made several concrete decisions [...]
An Uncle
Early this am, I became an uncle (again). This time, it was my brother’s wife (Selena) who had the baby. Get ready, because this is going to happen a few more times this summer! Not to mention the friends who will name me honorary ‘uncle’…joshing… congrats to us! jc ps. thanks to james for posting [...]
Obama and A Prayer for America (Voters & Policies)
If you are not an american, its still worth a watch. And by the way, I believe your voice matters! As one friend pointed out in a recent discussion, ‘the presidental election matters to the world because the election has the capacity to influence lives that have no say in who gets elected’. Oh the [...]
Seriously good conversations…
Here are a couple of conversations that made me laugh or, that i enjoyed following this week. They are not all funny, just like me;) I did need a little bit of lighter stuff this week as we had two major fundraising events on Friday and Saturday. They were good, but there was quite a [...]
Time with family
As i mentioned a few posts back, I’ve spent some time with my dad and step mom the last couple of weeks as they have been visiting. Among other things, it has been good to get out and have an excuse to take photos..lots of photos. Here are a few from Lauterbrunnen and Lucern in [...]
Birthdays and a brush with greatness!
Yesterday i had a very weird experience! I was walking through Geneva with Lammert and couple of friends who are visiting when right in front of me walked Kofi Annan. At first sight, i paused. Was it really him? No gaurds. Alone? Walking in Geneva on a sunny afternoon? In my hand i had my [...]
Nicholas and Leslie Video (Part 1)
Our friends Nick and Leslie posted thier first video (of several promised) of thier trip to Geneva. It is below. I’ll post some photos soon from the visit as well. Send to Facebook
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