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A program of the Global HIV/AIDS Ministry of MCC

We tell the true stories of our lives…and in the telling we build strength, nurture healing, and fulfill our spiritual call to service

Em·body
Pronunciation: im-'bä-dE

1 : to give a body to spirit
     2 : to make concrete and perceptible
          3 : to cause to become a body or part of a body
               4 : to represent in human form: PERSONIFY

HIV/AIDS continues to radically change the lives of people around the world.

The EMBODY program of the HIV/AIDS ministry of MCC wants to hear your true stories about living in the time of HIV/AIDS. 

How has HIV/AIDS affected your personal life…your body…your ministry…your family? What is your HIV/AIDS coming out story?  When did you discover HIV/AIDS?  What has it taught you?  How do you live with it over time? 

Submissions may be made by email to Joshua Love, MCC Program Director for the Global HIV/AIDS Ministry, on an ongoing basis.

Please include your contact information for follow-up from Joshua or a member of the Embody team.  Also, please send a photo of yourself for use on the site.  The photo should be head and shoulders only.  These stories will be shared on the MCC website and your permission for this purpose should be included with your submission.  Submissions should be limited to between 500 – 1000.

Embody – Personal Reflections on HIV/AIDS

“The genes of the human immunodeficiency virus have engineered a takeover of the factory that is my body.  The virus is retooling me to its own use – making copies and reassembling itself.  These stray bits of DNA become me, are me, and I am HIV, as much literally in the genetic codes of my cells as in the figurative way that HIV will define me for the rest of my life.” Robin Hardy – The Crisis of Desire – 1999

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