This article was a good reminder to my pregnant, nauseous, sprained-ankle self (pathetic but true) - the U.S. may be out of its recession, but one-sixth of the world is still habitually hungry:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090916/wl_nm/us_food_wfp.
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Do you have a certain food that you "can't live without"? For me, it's Coca-Cola. And coffee. And chocolate. Caffeinated, brown goodness. Are you like me? If not, bet you know someone who is!
To make a long story short, for the sake of sponsoring needy children through the Christian charity Compassion International, I'm giving up all three for one year.
Here's why:
1. I'm asking people like YOU to pledge $1/week to Compassion International for each week I stick with it.
2. I’ll be able to use the cash normally spent on my fave 3 to sponsor a child.
3. I’ll be reminded daily to pray for those in poverty, and to ask God 'why have I received much?' [a dangerous question]
Join the $1/week pledge list by emailing me through the link at the left, and tell others who also might be interested to visit this blog. And on the days when I'm not curled up on the floor, crying for a cup of coffee, I'll write you something that's either informative or just funny. Thank you!!!
To make a long story short, for the sake of sponsoring needy children through the Christian charity Compassion International, I'm giving up all three for one year.
Here's why:
1. I'm asking people like YOU to pledge $1/week to Compassion International for each week I stick with it.
2. I’ll be able to use the cash normally spent on my fave 3 to sponsor a child.
3. I’ll be reminded daily to pray for those in poverty, and to ask God 'why have I received much?' [a dangerous question]
Join the $1/week pledge list by emailing me through the link at the left, and tell others who also might be interested to visit this blog. And on the days when I'm not curled up on the floor, crying for a cup of coffee, I'll write you something that's either informative or just funny. Thank you!!!
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How this began:
Few days have passed in the last 20 years where I haven't had Coke, coffee or chocolate (the first 10 were healthier - thanks Mom). On good days it was a can of Coke at dinner; on bad days there was a steady caffeine drip rushing through my veins. Why bother with Sprite, juice, or vanilla-flavored stuff when I could have my brown-caffeinated favorites?
My die-hard allegiance was challenged, however, when I heard a radio interview with Wes Stafford of Compassion International describing mothers in Haiti who, right now, are feeding their kids something else brown: dirt. I’ve been complaining the past 12 months about our rising grocery bill…but what if I had less than $1 a day for food AND everything else???
After the interview, little thoughts began sprouting in my mind: I gave up chocolate for Lent, but would I give it up for a year? How about coffee? For the “least of these”, would I spend a year without, big gulp, Coke? (yes, that was a pun.)
Then came the logistics: should I just wander around town with a shoebox each week? To sponsor 100 kids at $32 each divided by $4 per month donations equals 80 people, right? And Google Friend Connect is so fun and easy for anyone to use, isn't it???
Getting this idea to actually work has been, so far, a bit messy. Go ahead and look at the carnage in the earlier posts; I obviously didn't have a fine-tuned plan in the beginning. But, thanks to helpful friends and my close buddy Failure, I think I finally have a decent plan to make this work.
My die-hard allegiance was challenged, however, when I heard a radio interview with Wes Stafford of Compassion International describing mothers in Haiti who, right now, are feeding their kids something else brown: dirt. I’ve been complaining the past 12 months about our rising grocery bill…but what if I had less than $1 a day for food AND everything else???
After the interview, little thoughts began sprouting in my mind: I gave up chocolate for Lent, but would I give it up for a year? How about coffee? For the “least of these”, would I spend a year without, big gulp, Coke? (yes, that was a pun.)
Then came the logistics: should I just wander around town with a shoebox each week? To sponsor 100 kids at $32 each divided by $4 per month donations equals 80 people, right? And Google Friend Connect is so fun and easy for anyone to use, isn't it???
Getting this idea to actually work has been, so far, a bit messy. Go ahead and look at the carnage in the earlier posts; I obviously didn't have a fine-tuned plan in the beginning. But, thanks to helpful friends and my close buddy Failure, I think I finally have a decent plan to make this work.
1 comment:
Hey Jenny. Hope this is still going well for you. Looks like you posted this link today. Keep it up, girl. We are behind you. What week is this for you, after all? We love yall and look forward to seeing you sometime. God bless your family. Drop us a line if you have a chance :-).
Eric
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