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Pierce was also a filmmaker and during his leadership World Vision used movies, shown mainly for church audiences, as the main marketing tool. Since in the worldview of Pierce Christianity was the only religion able to counter communism, these movies were full of anti-communist cold war rhetoric and promoted Christian missionizing as a way to ...
World Vision International is an ecumenical [5] [6] Christian humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization. It was founded in 1950 by Robert Pierce as a service organization to provide care for children in Korea.
World Vision was founded in 1950 by Dr. Robert Pierce ("Bob"), a young American evangelist minister whom the Youth for Christ missionary movement had first sent to China and South Korea in 1947. Pierce served for almost two decades at the helm of World Vision, but retired in 1967 from the organization.
Samaritan's Purse was founded in 1970 by Baptist pastor Robert Pierce (Bob), the founder of World Vision International, in Boone, North Carolina. [2]: 139 [3]: 2015 Franklin Graham met Pierce in 1973, and they made several trips together to visit relief projects and missionary partners in Asia and elsewhere. Graham became president of Samaritan ...
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Pierce gave Holkeboer his last five dollars and promised to send more when he returned home. [5] This generated the idea of child sponsorship and World Vision. [6] Canada has been part of the World Vision family since the early days. In 1950, Pierce held the first meetings in Canada to discuss what he had seen and learned in Asia.
Bob Graham, the former governor and U.S. senator who died on Tuesday, might have not been the first person to understand the need to return the Everglades to its natural glory. But he understood ...
Pierce did not disclose more details about the allegedly aggressive sports fans. He shared his tirade a day after a Yankees fan caught heat for interfering with Dodgers star Mookie Betts in Game 4.