by corpcomm | Oct 27, 2015 | Blog
October 27, 2015 Ashley al-Saliby BEIRUT: “Even in the midst of war, we can worship,” he said with confidence to a small gathering of other pastors from the brutalized African country where they serve enduring local churches. “This next song was written in war time....
by corpcomm | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog
October 6, 2015 Ashley al-Saliby BEIRUT: Sometimes fear closes our hearts to outstretched hands, and Dr. Nabil Costa, Executive Director of MEBO’s partner ministries in Lebanon, understands this dynamic well. For several years now he has led Lebanese Christian...
by corpcomm | Oct 1, 2015 | Blog
September 28, 2015 Ashley al-Saliby BEIRUT: “Head and shoulders knees and toes, knees and toes, knees and toes!” The children giggled as they bent down and straightened up, bent down and straightened up. This time with Gladys, Noelle, and others from the Baptist...
by corpcomm | Sep 14, 2015 | Blog
September 14, 2015 Ashley al-Saliby BEIRUT: Try to imagine a young woman in a crowded Middle Eastern café reading an Arabic translation of a John MacArthur or Francine Rivers classic on her smart phone. Picture several pastors-in-training sharing a theological...
by corpcomm | Aug 18, 2015 | Blog
August 24, 2015 Ashley al-Saliby BEIRUT: Fifty-three high school graduates walked across the stage on July 3rd amidst the lights and sounds of a state-of-the-art graduation ceremony, marking the culmination of years of rigorous and rewarding education at Beirut...
by corpcomm | Aug 17, 2015 | Blog
August 17, 2015 Ashley al-Saliby BEIRUT: Have you ever paused to take in a moment and wondered, “What am I doing here?” You might be stepping into a neighborhood just a few minutes from your own, or into a home literally half a world away, but the amazement at how God...
by corpcomm | Aug 4, 2015 | Blog
July 25, 2015 Rachel Saliba BEIRUT: In March 2011 the Syrian crisis began displacing over 12 million individuals, 1.2 million of whom fled to Lebanon, with women and girls constituting the majority. The ongoing and prolonged Syrian crisis did not only strip Syrians...
by corpcomm | Jul 28, 2015 | Blog
July 28, 2015 Ashley al-Saliby BEIRUT: It was the first day of Ramadan*, and a veiled Sunni woman smiled affectionately at her husband from her front row seat in a crowded room. He was wrapping up a panel discussion with Christian leaders, and he had one more...
by corpcomm | Jul 15, 2015 | Blog
July 15, 2015 Ashley al-Saliby BEIRUT: Can you try to picture our fast-paced world through the eyes of a small child, a world in which your peers grasp concepts more quickly or differently than you do, your teachers mistakenly identify your struggle as laziness or a...