Advent Conspiracy

Great little video about making Christmas meaningful.  Check out their website.

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Global Connections

Global Connections is a UK network of mission agencies, churches, colleges and service agencies with a passion for the world.

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10 Ways to Change the World in your 20s

Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties is an organization and book whose mission is to offer tangible ideas to young adults who wish to be active in shaping the world in which we live, but may lack the guidance and resources to easily do so. The book discusses our social, environmental, and [...]

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Micah Challenge

My husband just posted this info on his blog and I thought it looked applicable for TLB.  You can also subscribe to a weekly prayer list which provides a prayer guide for countries around the world.
The Micah Network and the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) have created the Micah Challenge campaign to grasp a moment of unique [...]

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Everything must change

Everything Must Change seeks to bring focus to the global crises of the planet, poverty, peace, and meaning.  (For those of you (understandably) skeptical of the emerging church, I’d recommend giving this pause for thought.  Brian McClaren has some great things to say regarding the Christians’ role in a global context.
From the site:
When I began [...]

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Global Exchange – Building People to People Ties

Our Vision
We envision a people centered globalization that values the rights of workers and the health of the planet; that prioritizes international collaboration as central to ensuring peace; and that aims to create a local, green economy designed to embrace the diversity of our communities.In a world where the economics of quantity fuels corporate power [...]

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Global Philanthropy Forum

The Global Philanthropy Forum aims to build a community of donors and social investors committed to international causes, and to inform, enable and enhance the strategic nature of their giving and social investing.
By continually refreshing a lasting learning community, the GPF seeks to increase the number of philanthropists who will be strategic in pursuit of [...]

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Generous Giving

Generous Giving is a privately funded ministry that seeks to encourage givers of all income levels to experience the joy of giving and embrace a lifestyle of generosity, according to God’s word and Christ’s example. It was launched in 2000 by the Maclellan Foundation to stir a renewed, Spirit-led commitment to generosity among Christians. Generous [...]

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Church and Immigration

Christians for comprehensive immigration reform:
We represent a coalition of Christian organizations, churches, and leaders from across the theological and political spectrum united in support of comprehensive immigration reform.  Despite our differences on other issues, we are working together to see comprehensive immigration reform enacted this year because we share a set [...]

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GlobalGirl Network

“The globalgirl network desires to connect women across cultures as we share our stories of passion and triumph, but also our places of brokenness and deep longing. We stand as women who want to make a difference by being the difference in our own home, our communities and our world.”
There are some GREAT articles on [...]

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Multiethnic Education Program

The Multiethnic Education Program (ME Program), a project of iPride, emerged through the development of our Early Childhood curriculum, “Serving Biracial and Multiethnic Children and their Families.” Since 1999, the K&F Baxter Family Foundation has supported the ME Program to publish and disseminate this unique resource through trainings in childcare, early childhood education, fostercare, kinship, [...]

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iPride – interracial, intercultural pride

iPride’s mission is to cultivate positive identity formation in children who are of more than one racial or ethnic heritage and/or who have been transracially adopted.   We strive to create a more inclusive and equitable society by educating ourselves, our children, and our communities, about multiethnic families, mixed heritage identity and transracial adoptee experiences.

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Center for the Study of Biracial Children

The Center for the Study of Biracial Children produces and disseminates materials for and about interracial families and biracial children. The Center provides advocacy, training and consulting. Its primary mission is to advocate for the rights of interracial families, biracial children, and multiracial people. We believe this population has unique needs and challenges not addressed [...]

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Discover the World: Mobilizing Christians for Cross-cultural Ministry

Organization which offers cross-cultural training seminars

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Institute for Cross Cultural Training

Institute through Wheaton College which offers resources on second language acquisition and TESOL.

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