We are still here....

I know I am behind in posting and I have a few gems swirling around in this head of mine that I know I need to post…. but for today…. I will post for all of you that check this blog …actually I know my grandma is the only one who checks this thing regularly. I know that cause she told me! Hi Gram! I love you!

I really have wanted to share a post from another blog - something you all should listen too. I have a wonderful co-worker named Wendy, she lives and works in SoCal and visits our office from time to time for work related things. She has a beautiful family and is great at what she does for Food for the Hungry. One of the things she does is run a blog called PovertyUnlocked which you should check out. Recently she posted this, an audio episode where she talks about what Food for the Hungry does in our child sponsorship program and how real transformation takes place in impoverished situations. I think she does a great job of addressing issues that most of us wrestle with when we want to help “the poor.”

Please listen to this, it is legit. I don’t want you to listen to this so that you start sponsoring a child, rather I want us to think rightly about helping “the poor.” I keep putting “the poor” in quotes because really we are all poor is some way, poor is not just physical but that is what we so often think.

In a season when there are bazillion missions trips taking place around us and in the Christian culture that most of us are a part of, we must think rightly about poverty. A few months ago I told you to read the book When Helping Hurts because it is also legit; it talks about this same topic.

If you haven’t yet clicked on the links above to listen, here is your last chance:

http://povertyunlocked.com/2011/06/01/surprisingsolution/

You can listen to it while you are doing laundry or making dinner or checking  facebook or fixing the car or picking your nose or if you are able to multi-task, at work, or where ever. You can even tell me your thoughts about it, I have told you mine :)