Mission Trip?
The more I see the world, the more I want to help it.
Amazing how much your view changes when the vail of ignorance is pulled away.
Not that long ago, I would have said, "don't send so much money to other countries when we have so many people suffering in our own backyard."
How stupid. How ignorant. We don't know the word poverty. Yes, we have many suffering people in America. But there is help for most of them.
Africa.
Megan has been asking me to take her there for well over a year. Upon her insistance we participated in Hope Walks (an event to raise money for kids in Africa who have become orphaned due to AIDS) She wants to go to Kenya.
This summer my Church is going to Kenya. Coincidence?
So here I am...praying and wondering if this is what God wants us to do. I wouldn't be able to use my free flight benefits. It's a group thing. I would have to raise the money. It's not cheap. But I suppose, if it's God's plan then I have nothing to worry about. The money will come. I provide the faith and he will do the rest.
posted by Kathy at 1:23 AM
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What many Americans don't grasp is that elsewhere in the world, especially in parts of Africa and Asia, people are poor to a degree we can't even fathom. It is ten below out and they have no clothes; they haven't eaten in two days and they have no food. They are the people Mt. 25:31-46 is referring to.
In no way am I saying that we shouldn't try to help poor people in this country (especially as the idea that it's their own fault is far too prevalent), but my husband and I do save our biggest charitable giving for what I call hard-core relief, international organizations working with people ravaged by war, famine, and/or desperate poverty. (They get $x; American relief agencies generally get $x/10; my prep-school alma mater gets $x/100, no matter how many letters it sends me claiming desperate need for money and specifying the amount the computer thinks I should be able to spare.)
Anyhow. I hope you and Megan get to go, that would be amazing, but I know that you'll do what you can wherever you are.
11:02 AM
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