It's Not Okay With Me - Janine Maxwell

It begins on September 11th, 2001 in New York City as Janine is evacuated from her hotel by police gunfire and told to run for her life. That world changing event was the catalyst that sent Janine in to a deep depression and on into the darkest parts of Africa in her search for the meaning of life. Janine owned one of the largest marketing companies in Canada until God told her to close her business and wait.What happens next is a roller coaster ride from the board room to the streets of Africa. Janine's honesty and transparency is refreshing and raw. Her story telling paints a picture that takes the reader right into the heart of each experience and leaves no room for escape. Janine's journey in to the heart of Africa finds her standing face to face with the AIDS pandemic and trying to understand what to do with 15 million orphans who are left in its wake.Its Not Okay With Me provides truth and insights into Africa in a way that is fresh and filled with hope.

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time - Jeffrey D. Sachs
A realistic blueprint for worldwide economic success.

"Extreme poverty can be ended, not in the time of our grandchildren, but our time." Thus forecasts Jeffrey D. Sachs, whose twenty-five years of experience observing the world from many vantage points has helped him shed light on the most vital issues facing our planet: the causes of poverty, the role of rich-country policies, and the very real possibilities for a poverty-free future. Deemed "the most important economist in the world" by The New York Times Magazine and "the world's best-known economist" by Time magazine, Sachs brings his considerable expertise to bear in the landmark The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, his highly anticipated blueprint for world-wide economic success - a goal, he argues, we can reach in a mere twenty years.

Father To The Fatherless: The Charles Mulli Story - Paul H. Boge

Father to the Fatherless is the true story of a man whose life begins in desperate poverty, moves to riches, and finally servanthood where he becomes a real-life demonstration of selfless love and sacrifice. His obedience challenges us to evaluate the cost of giving up all to God in the service of others.

Visit www.mullychildrensfamily.org to find out more about Charles Mulli's amazing ministry to the orphaned, abandoned and abused children of Africa.

Out of the Black Shadows - Stephen Lungu

Stephen Lungu was the oldest son of a teenage mother, married off to a much older man by her parents, and living in a black township near Salisbury, Zimbabwe. When he was seven years old his mother ran away, leaving him on the street with his younger brother and sister. This story is one of miraculous transformation and will change the hearts of anyone who reads it.

Race Against Time - Stephen Lewis

"I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal, and often searing insider's perspective on our ongoing failure to help. Lewis recounts how, in 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York introduced eight Millennium Development Goals, which focused on fundamental issues such as education, health, and cutting poverty in half by 2015. In audacious prose, alive with anecdotes ranging from maddening to hilarious to heartbreaking, Lewis shows why and how the international community is falling desperately short of these goals.

Good News About Injustice - Gary Haugen

Good News About Injustice, by Gary Haugen, is a refreshing resource for the hope-parched human rights intellectual and a warm welcome to newcomers. The enterprises of renewal and initiation of interest in human rights issues are each immense challenges in their own right, but Haugen makes an unlikely effort to address both. Because his targeted audience consists of religious communities, he must address a significant obstacle in each prong of his endeavor. First, by virtue of its global character, human rights is a pluralistic and multi-cultural study. As a result, religious moralizing tends to receive little credence. Secondly, religious devotees seem increasingly preoccupied with a narrow circle of domestic policy issues: family values, community safety, and church-state economic issues. Moreover, some of the most media-prominent religious figures have a history of apathy at best and antagonism at worst to the international human rights community.