The moms I know By Elaine Fallesen, women’s and family ministry, Climbing For Christ  I LAUGHED at the “Mama Bear” display of Mother’s Day gifts in the card store. If you’re a mom or know a mom, you know it’s true – like mother bears we are passionately fierce, loving, protective, and always there for our cubs and family. It’s what we do. The moms I know in the Majority World countries where Climbing For Christ serves don’t have a clue about Mother’s Day. They aren’t showered with Hallmark cards or treated to brunch...
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‘As you did it to one of the least of these’ By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ Loveson. (Photo by Gilbert Lindor) The skeletal baby revealed from under a begging mother’s clothing on a street corner in Nairobi, Kenya. A beleaguered father, his polio-stricken daughter sitting on his lap, slumping into despair in Malasi, Haiti after learning there was nothing we could do to help. A sea of orphan children sleeping alongside and on top of each other in Kasese, Uganda. Dirty-faced children, who are forced to work more than half of...
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Gary with his then-15-year-old son, Jesse, on the summit of Caribbean highpoint Pico Duarte (10,164 feet/3,098 meters) during Mission: Dominican Republic/Haiti 2005. By Gary Fallesen Founding president, Climbing For Christ “Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” – James 4:14 (NIV) Thirteen years ago, Climbing For Christ was incorporated. It was divinely orchestrated. A pro-bono blessing. The late Wayne Harris, a Rochester, NY attorney whom I had interviewed and writ...
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‘Howse of Cards’ By Gary Fallesen Howse Peak and Chephren as seen from the Icefields Parkway. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) The drive along the Icefields Parkway is one of the most scenic anywhere, something you might take for granted when it’s your road to work. Will Gadd grew up here, moved away looking for something better, and came back when he realized just how good he had it in the Canadian Rockies. “It’s a rare place,” he acknowledged. “Anyone who drives the Parkway gets whiplash.” Look at that. No, look at that. Wait, over there. N...
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