RESPONDING TO GOD’S CALL IN THE AGE OF AIDS

“In the 21st century, our global challenge is to hear and respond to the voice of God calling Christians to lead a new healing mission and ministry to eradicate HIV and AIDS and its devastating effects.”

                                                                          Donald E. Messer, Executive Director

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If you would like to purchase a book, please send a $20 check to:
Center for the Church and Global AIDS
7185 S. Niagara Circle
Centennial, CO 80112
Memo: Cherishing Life & Love
Profits from the book support Kenya AIDS Orphans

 

 

 Join us for the 3rd Annual 

“Swinging at AIDS”
Golf Tournament & Silent Auction
August 25, 2009
Wellshire Inn and Golf Course
Denver, CO
We are taking registrations for golfers now! 
The cost is $135 per golfer or $500 per foursome, if golfers sign up and pay at the same time.  This includes green fees, carts, prizes, goody bags, and lunch. 
Click Here to Download a Registration Form
 

 
The world’s worst health crisis in 700 years means:

  • In 2007, there were an estimated 33.2 million people living with HIV globally, increasing from 29.0 million in 2001.
  • Over 2 million people died due to AIDS in 2007.
  • Global HIV incidence (the number of new infections) in 2007 was approximately 2.5 million, with the majority of new infections still taking place in sub-Saharan Africa, where a total of 1.7 million became infected with HIV last year.
  • HIV infections increased almost 20% in East Asia between 2001 and 2007.
  • About 15 million children are AIDS orphans.  The total amount of orphans would be increasing even more rapidly if it were not for the fact that AIDS is now the biggest single cause of death of children younger than 5 years old.
  • The majority of HIV infections occur among women.                                 For more information, visit www.unaids.org

 

The world's worst health crisis in 700 years is a question of sustaining life in the face of overwhelming personal crises.  Statistics tend to be facts without faces, or as an African proverb declares “numbers without tears.” 
A grandmother near Durbin, South Africa, struggles to find enough food and energy to care for her six grandchildren, all orphaned because of HIV/AIDS. Now she is faced with an additional dilemma. Should she accept two more orphaned children who have nowhere else to go?
A young father in Chennai, South India, faces an impossible decision. He has enough money on a regular basis to purchase life-sustaining antiretroviral AIDS drugs for one person. But both his parents need them. Should he buy them for his father or his mother?
A man lies alone in a Costa Rican AIDS hospice. Afraid of the stigma and discrimination associated with the disease, does he dare tell his parents and friends?        
A seminary student in Asia learns on February 8, he has HIV.  That night he was expelled from his studies.  On February 9, he committed suicide.         
Tragically, these and many other stories of heartbreak, pain, and suffering are being replicated each day. Increasingly, the cry of the stricken is “Where is God?” or “Is there no one to help me and my family?”
The Center for the Church and Global AIDS
Responds by
Sharing Hope, Healing, and Help
Through programs of
Awareness, Education, Prevention, Care, and Treatment

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