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EPA Awards 2022

By |2024-01-12T05:57:08-05:00October 4th, 2022|

SAConnects magazine has won 13 Evangelical Press Association (EPA) awards for the 2021 publishing year. SAConnects has won 34 EPA awards since the magazine began seven years ago. It ranks among the top five denominational magazines in the U.S., which includes a field of 31 magazines.

Mission Possible: Anti–Human Trafficking

By |2024-01-12T06:03:26-05:00September 19th, 2022|

BY MAJOR A. A. MARGARETA IVARSSON
Through the eyes of P.E.A.R.L. Essence Outreach, we learn to serve out of our experienced faith. We come face–to–face with trafficked survivors, who often define themselves as lost causes by default. Nonetheless, we convey that they are the crown of God’s creation; “Purposed, Empowered, Appreciated, Respected, and Loved” (P.E.A.R.L.). Surprisingly, they often already know that God loves them

Thrift Store Finds

By |2025-12-12T12:36:19-05:00May 18th, 2022|

However unfair it may seem, when you’re a woman in broadcast news, visuals count. You learn that early in your career. Fans send messages about your lipstick, hairstyle, jewelry, and clothing. You can’t be caught on camera in that same black blazer you wore last week.

Zoro the Drummer

By |2024-01-12T06:39:34-05:00November 4th, 2021|

The musician known as “Zoro the Drummer” is one of the most famous percussionists in the world, but his long career in the music business might never have happened without The Salvation Army. Zoro, who has drummed for some of the music industry’s biggest acts, including New Edition, grew up in a family of poor Mexican immigrants. He guesses the family moved 30 times as his single mother, Maria, struggled to raise seven children on her own.

Spiritual by Nature

By |2024-05-21T07:30:12-04:00July 22nd, 2021|

Helping people to see life in a broader sense is something that's important to both my wife Pat and me. Sometimes she’ll say, “You posted too many things on Facebook about being outside!” But I’ll say, “Well, I'm not going to post pictures of all my meetings in the boardroom!” I've always tried to stress to others the holistic nature of our being, and to take care of our spirit, our soul, our body, and our mind. When I'm not right in any of those categories, I'm not right. 

Spiritual Direction 101

By |2024-05-22T00:12:34-04:00June 7th, 2021|

In John chapter 4, Jesus meets a Samaritan woman at a well and engages her in a conversation. His questions prompt her desire to be replenished with a relationship with God, the Living Water. As she contemplates what is “truly good,” she realizes that this connection is the start to knowing Christ.

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