Your IMB E-Letter
Jan. 23, 2014 Due to technical issues, your e-letter was not sent yesterday as scheduled. We apologize and thank you for your understanding.  Hope for escape
Betrayed as a child, teenager and adult, Lisha (name changed) was desperate to escape her life of forced prostitution. She was raped, abused, addicted and seemingly unloved. Her story is a challenge for us to speak up.
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VIDEO: Owned and abused
Girls are tricked, transported and trapped into a lifestyle of prostitution that leaves them feeling hopeless and unloved.
Set her free
Touched by the story of a young trafficked girl, singer/songwriter Anissa Haney wrote “Set her free.” Hear Anissa’s song.
Stay informed about the global problem of human exploitation at commissionstories.com/speakup  Sam James: honoring an IMB legend
It’s a love story 60 years in the making, though not the kind of romance that sells tickets in Hollywood. But Sam James won’t ever forget the day he met one of the great loves of his life: Vietnam.
 Gospel teamwork
Taking the Good News of Jesus Christ to those who have never heard is a team effort. IMB worker Don Patrick and his national partner Rith Jaya (names changed) work together to translate Scripture into new languages.
Also see: Dresses for a difference
Dayla Patrick (name changed) helps Southeast Asian believers support their families by making dresses. Photo gallery: Working together:
Photos capture Don and Dayla partnering with their national friends to translate the Bible and help struggling families.  A missionary’s first-person story
“My students have become my teachers,” says IMB missionary Tommy Larner, who helped form missions training centers in Peru, often located deep in the jungle.
Also read what God taught Tommy and his wife, Beth, after a bus accident that nearly took Tommy’s life in ‘What,’ not ‘why’. WorldView: Little resolutions, big results
New Year’s resolutions can be unrealistic, even counterproductive. New beginnings are fine, but real progress doesn’t always run on a calendar. Daily growth in Christ usually happens quietly, with thousands of “little moments” coming to us day by day. Do we choose to speak up for Christ when the opportunity arises? Do we choose to pray for the lost?
 VIDEO: Syrian refugees – from crisis to disaster
Zaatari UN refugee camp in Jordan is home to 130,000 Syrian refugees, mostly women and children. Recently a below-freezing winter storm hit the Middle East, tragically taking the lives of infants and the elderly.
As winter continues, pray for the Syrians affected by the crises and donate to Syrian relief efforts.  Light of hope: an update
Things have been changing for the better at the Light of Hope Learning Center for impoverished girls in Bangladesh, and much of it is thanks to the prayers and support of our CommissionStories.com audience.
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Staying the course
Christy Godwin was struck by the needs of the Light of Hope center and used video at her church’s 5k race to remind members to give to Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. VIDEO: Thanks for giving:
Missionaries serving at the Light of Hope center say thanks for giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
 Engage your community
The Olympics is an opportunity to share the Gospel with people from many nations. It’s also an incentive to spread the Gospel in your own community. A resource kit has been prepared by the Engage Sochi team and written by church leaders across America. It contains Olympic outreach ideas, sermon outlines and small-group lessons for every age group.
 Winter Olympic KOM special edition
When God brings the world to Sochi, Russia, missionaries and Christian workers will be there to greet them. Get your kids involved, too! Find online resources on Russia and how kids can engage their own city with the Gospel.
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