ANM’s Thrive conferences give women missionaries a platform.
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Autumn Nims of Advancing Native Missions tells MNN’s Katey Hearth about their Thrive conferences — two-day events that highlight the work of women missionaries around the world.

This year, ANM is taking their Thrive conferences coast-to-coast. Next month, one Thrive conference will be held in Virginia, and another will be held in California.

Get all the information you need here.

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Dr. David Schuringa of Crossroad Bible Institute (CBI) explores the connection between a childhood of poverty and violence to lives of crime.

“Upbringing has so much to do with direction,” Schuringa states.

This 2012 study by The Sentencing Project describes the childhood environments of inmates who received Juvenile Life Without Parole (JLWOP) sentences.

Dyann Romeijn of Vision Beyond Borders (VBB) discusses the Iraqi crisis with MNN’s Katey Hearth. As the U.S. searches for help from Iraq’s neighbors in the fight against ISIS, Vision Beyond Borders is trying to find help for Iraqi believers.

Click here to help VBB send a crate of supplies to Iraqi Christians.

(Photo cred: Florida Baptist Children’s Home/Orphan’s Heart)

Kristen Hitchcock of Orphan’s Heart tells MNN’s Katey Hearth about the Women of Compassion Giving Society.

The society gathers once a year during the Women of Compassion Forum to discuss ways to help orphaned and disadvantaged children. In the process, they determine where certain funds should be directed to achieve maximum impact on the lives of children in the U.S. and around the world.

Learn more about Women of Compassion here.

Julie Oosterhouse talking with Tim and Karri, a missionary couple from Pioneers USA who minister to women and children with HIV.

Katey Hearth speaking to Stephanie Ward of Africa Inland Mission About their TIMO Quest trips.

A Christian Winter in the Middle East is the center of a discussion between MNN’s Ruth Kramer and Berry Feiss of The JESUS Film Project. They examine the efficacy of an evangelistic film, specifically, the “JESUS” film, in a world where it’s getting harder and harder for Christians to share Christ with their neighbors.

India Partners’ Kaytie Fiedler shares a trip report with MNN’s Katey Hearth. India Partners brought five people on a two-week, short-term missions trip to Mumbai and east India to hold training conferences on three .subject areas: counseling/trauma, pastoral ministry and healthcare ministry.