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I preached on “Good News to the Poor” recently and heard that a study group was using the sermon and discussing poverty and what to do about the poor. The verse about “always having the poor with you” came up in the conversation as it often does, which led me to do a little studying. The [...] The following quotes come from an article in Time magazine, Feb. 14, 2011. The article is written by Nancy Gibbs and is titled “The Best Investment” (page 64). “In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school. Nearly half are married by the time they are 18; 1 in 7 [...] I’ve asked my friend LeRoy Lawson to share the following comments: “It’s a miracle!” If you had been with me, you would have wondered. Several of us Americans were standing in the second story room of a toilet building in the midst of Mathare Valley, one of Nairobi’s—and the world’s—largest slums. The plaque on the [...] They say that you can’t teach an old Doug new tricks, and I am proof of that. We went to get something for our cell phones only to be told that our phones were so old that they did not even make them anymore. OK. Time to upgrade. So now I have a Blackberry. But [...] One hundred years ago the Edinburgh Missionary Conference was held (1910). This past year there have been numerous mission conferences to celebrate the centenary. Marv Newell attended Cape Town 2010 and shared the following comment regarding the global nature of Christianity. I thought it worth repeating here. Mission has become a tapestry of multiple threads made [...] Today I received an e-mail from Keith Ham in Kenya. He shared the good news that of the 96 Mathare Valley students studying at Joska, 93 of them passed their high school entry exam. That is fantastic, since the national average for Kenya is 40%. (By the way, 93 of 96 is just over 96% [...] Robyn was raised in Califorina; her whole life prior to marriage was in the same house in Long Beach as a part of a great family. I moved to southern California in 1974. So being in California for a few days is very much like being home. The song goes, “It Never Rains in California.” [...] We arrived in Bangkok on Sunday evening (2:00 am Monday morning actually). After a short sleep we were up and about so that G could go to the park and do some running. I tagged along and picked up three lifers; birds that I had not seen before. After breakfast we met our local contact [...] A colleague and I are sitting in the Detroit airport waiting for our flight to Asia. We are going to check out some possibilities among the urban poor in one of the capital cities. Then we will be headed off to another country to look at a manufacturing facility and some schools for poor children. [...] There was a surprise waiting for me at the office this morning. On my desk was a wrapped paper package with an Ethiopian postcard. I assumed it was Ethiopian coffee as it was about the right size. Imagine my joy when I realized it was beri-beri (a blend of spicies). The smell was enough to [...] |
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