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Literacy: A Great Miracle Cure for the Human Spirit (Illiteracy Post 1 by Gospel for Asia)

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October 04, 1919
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Gospel for Asia issues a Special Report on illiteracy, the dominant disabler to flourishing for millions worldwide, and the miraculous potential of literacy
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WILLS POINT, TX – Gospel for Asia (GFA) issues an extensive Special Report on illiteracy, the dominant disabler to flourishing for millions around the world, and the miraculous potential of literacy that is able to change the lives of men, women and children for generations.

Resolving the Limitations Illiteracy Places on the Human Spirit

Few of us who have read all our lives understand the nearly miraculous potential of being able to read and write when illiteracy has been the dominant disabler to flourishing. Illiteracy is more dominant than poverty, more dominant than a chronic physical disability, and more dominant than even an oppressive social system.

We readers have long lost the joy of discovering that the squiggly marks on a page of paper can be interpreted or that the same kinds of marks can be learned and replicated with chalk, ink, pen or pencil. We don’t understand because we read and write and often take for granted the treacherous limitations illiteracy places on the human spirit as well as on human potential.

Perhaps one story from Gospel for Asia (GFA) will help us again remember the wonder of our own unrecognized reading and writing capacities. This is about Mandeepa.

Due to the early death of her father, Mandeepa and her five other siblings were raised by a struggling mother…

READ THE REST OF THE REPORT ON PATHEOS.COM


Literacy — One of the Great Miracle Cures: Part 2 | Part 3

This Special Report article originally appeared on GFA.org.

Learn more about the Women’s Literacy Program, and how you can help over 250 million women in Asia who are illiterate.

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