Last night we had breakfast for dinner with our youth to break our fasting from the 30 hour famine. It was a yummy meal indeed! The kids seemed to really have an eye opening experience to the needs in the world and the poverty and hunger that is so prevalent in many countries. Andrew showed a movie on Friday night called Invisible Children. Has anyone seen it yet? It’s a documentary made by 3 young guys following the exploitation of children in Uganda as child soldiers- children that are literally ripped from their families to carry a gun and forced to fight in a brutal army of rebels that have wreaked havoc in their country. Powerful movie. Horrible injustice against those children. When watching videos like Invisible Children (or Hotel Rwanda) I tend to get overwhelmed, feeling like I am powerless to help solve such a huge problem so far away, but more and more I’m realizing the truth to the statement ‘knowledge is power’- and have the conviction that the more knowledge we have of injustices and needs around the world, we really do have a responsibility to respond in some way. And the truth is, anything helps. For people who have nothing, $5 can go a long ways. There are many families around the world who live on $1 a day or less. Most of us can’t even fathom that in America and yet, for that very reason, we must not sit back and let someone else solve world hunger when we can give money, raise our voice to the government and cause awareness for these kinds of issues. Having a garage sale? Donate some of the money to a worth while cause and have your kids sell cookies for kids in Uganda. Skip your daily latte for a month and help a family in a developing nation get medical care. For about a dollar a day you can sponsor a child who will then have a chance to get an education and other things they normally wouldn’t. I’ll keep posting various ways to educate ourselves and get involved in these kinds of issues, and feel free to leave your own websites, ideas, etc. in the comments.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa