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  • Human Trafficking: Call and Response

    Possibly the biggest, most invisible atrocity in the world today. !!WARNING!! This deals with difficult subject matter and will disturb you. (Though provocative, we cannot keep our heads in the sand concerning a very real crisis taking place all around us!). I ran into this review over at Tall Skinny...
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 10-02-2008

  • Killing Healthy Babies

    Over the last two weeks in our church in St Jérôme, one family gave birth to twins while another lost triplets. Other families are pregnant as I write this post. Problems in pregnancy are on the minds of many in our congregation. Our daughter, Constance (who is now one-and-a-half: ( photo at right taken...
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 05-28-2008

  • Myanmar: First-hand Accounts & How to Give

    Overwhelmed by the devastation of cyclone Nargis but don't know what to do? Here's a recent update from WorldVenture (the missions organization we serve with), including first-hand accounts of the devastation and a chance to give: You have probably heard or seen the news about the cyclone that...
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 05-15-2008

  • Video: Piper on the Prosperity Gospel

    HT: Justin Taylor
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 03-04-2008

  • Video: I Need To Find Forgiveness!

    Trevin Wax posted this video from the popular TV show, "ER." The episode is on atonement, and a dying man confronts the platitudes of a liberal chaplain. At one point he says, "I want a real chaplain who believes in a real God and a real hell!" HT: Between Two Worlds
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 02-26-2008

  • Rescuing Chinese Prostitutes

    On my (Rob) recent trip to Oregon, I met the director of a radical ministry called GottaGo (I also met with several volunteers who have worked short-term in China). Here are a few paragraphs from their website: " We go into the brothels of our Hunan city and build relationships with the women who...
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 11-15-2007

  • Being Heard versus Being Flipped Off

    “You are Jesus Christ to me,” he said after we pulled his couch and table up over his second floor balcony with ropes (they didn’t fit up the narrow curving stairs). We stated that we serve as a response to what Christ did for us on the cross. One way to love Christ was by loving our neighbor, and today...
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 07-06-2007

  • I Hope You Are Disturbed by This

    I just began reading the book What's So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey . Here are a few quotes from the first chapter. I hope you are disturbed by them: I told a story in my book The Jesus I Never Knew , a true story that long afterward continued to haunt me. I heard it from a friend who works...
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 05-31-2007

  • Google Earth Darfur Awareness

    Google has teamed up with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to highlight the Darfus crisis using Google Earth : Google Earth has added a Global Awareness layer to its maps program that lets you learn about the crisis in Darfur. By selecting the Global Awareness layer (in the lower left-hand corner of...
    Posted to Rob & Martine Karch (Weblog) by Karch on 04-16-2007
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