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Conference LiveBlog: John Ortberg, Author and Pastor of the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in California

By Opportunity International on October 14, 2011

This evening, John Ortberg, pastor at the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in California, spoke from the conference mainstage about why it is important to value every individual person with help and with compassion, because every person is worthy of God’s love. Highlights from Pastor Ortberg’s Speech I’d like to take a few moments to think Read more…

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Opportunity LiveBlog: Roger Thurow’s Global Food for Thought

By Sonja Egeland Kelly on March 19, 2010

Roger Thurow’s job is to “outrage and inspire.” His recent book, co-authored with Scott Kilman, Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, certainly does just that. He previously spoke at our Fall 2009 Conference, and Opportunity is delighted to host him again at our Spring 2010 Conference. The Opportunity audience sat enraptured as we listened Read more…

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