God has changed my heart and revolutionized my dreams. Today, I’m a woman seriously disturbed about the HIV/AIDS pandemic sweeping our world, and I’d like you to join me in doing something about it. The new HIV/AIDS Caring Community Web site is a ministry resource. It will help you build an HIV/AIDS ministry in your church or minister to people you know who are HIV positive.

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We look forward to building an HIV/AIDS Caring Community with you.

Warmly,
Kay

Kay Warren, co-founder, Saddleback Church

Why care about HIV/AIDS
By Kay Warren

We’re taught by our parents and our culture to avoid some topics, like politics, religion, and sex. They’re not polite! We don’t want to talk about things like child prostitution, sexual slavery, bonded labor, grinding poverty, dirty water, orphans, widows – or HIV/AIDS. These are disturbing topics. But we need to be disturbed because, if we’re not disturbed, then we will spend our lives pursuing all the wrong goals, living for the wrong measure of success, and evaluating our legacy by the wrong standard.
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How to build a ministry bridge to those
who are HIV positive
By Kay Warren

If your congregation is typical, a wide gap probably separates your church from those in your community and around the world who are HIV positive. But as followers of Jesus, we are called to bridge that gap – to care as Jesus would for those who are affected by HIV/AIDS. At Saddleback Church we’ve begun building that bridge, and I’d like to help you understand how you can build your own ministry bridge. Your bridge probably won’t look exactly like the bridge Saddleback is building in southern California, but, whatever it looks like, it will help bring Jesus’ love and healing to those in your community and beyond who are hurting because of HIV/AIDS.
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