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A network of prayer [infographic]

About six months ago, as my team was putting together the autumn 2011 issue of World Vision Magazine, I asked our social media team if we could pose a question to World Vision Facebook fans — and potentially use the responses in the magazine. At that stage, we had an article from Rich Stearns, president of World Vision U.S., about how World Vision’s faith plays a role in every community where we work. I think it’s a great article that shows the big picture of how our faith motivates our staff around the world. But something was missing. Of course, it is important to see how faith motivates World Vision staff, but I also wanted to show that faith motivates...
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Royal gift poll results

Elegant, regal, ceremonious, formal, beautiful — these are all words that might be used to describe Prince William and Kate’s wedding after this weekend’s royal wedlock. But as any married person (or former wedding party member) knows, it is not without great planning that a “dream” wedding comes to life. There are dress fittings, cake tastings, floral appointments, seating charts… and perhaps one of the more exciting pre-wedding activities — the gift registry. But the royal couple is obviously not registering for towels, kitchen appliances and luggage. Instead, we love that they asked for donations to charitable funds, which got our blog team thinking — if we were invited to the royal nuptials, what World Vision gift would we give...
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