Apathy – The Open Door to Evil
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/frederikvanroest/ Wild Weekend: This past weekend, my neighbors were out hiking at Amicalola Falls in North Georgia with their […]
THE END
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnet/ The End.This little phrase causes so much emotion. Each night, it creates stress at my house because it means “time to go to bed” for my little ones. In the movie theater, this phrase allows us to take a deep breath after an emotional or action-packed ride. However the phrase is used, it carries with it a sense […]
Never Give Up
Sometimes you just feel the need to make a statement. Today, mine is this:Don’t ever give up. All of my young life was filled with baseball, football and neighborhood sports.I realized at an early age that I had a pretty natural ability to throw a football accurately.So, my goal was always to play quarterback in […]
Long Term Global Orphan Work
Image URL: http://mrg.bz/nAH6H Today, I would like to offer some thoughts regarding how we think about long term global orphan work. First, we must begin with the end in mind. Get orphans into loving families. The church has to be involved in educating and equipping congregations in every community in order to know and meet […]
Mighty Shoves & Tiny Pushes
“The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.”– Helen Keller Image URL: http://mrg.bz/5npjNo It’s a humbling experience to lead a non profit organization that is based solely off of donations. For my family, it brought new meaning to […]
Putting an end to the gut-wrenching stories orphanage directors tell
photo by apdk’s photostream on flicker The white-haired orphanage director stood before our group and began to tell us the story of one of the little girls in the orphanage. He recalled how she was dropped off at the doorstep of the orphanage at a young age with a note saying something like, “please take […]
Close to Home
photo by epnichols “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, […]
Arouse the Lion!
Here kitty kitty: If someone happened to startle this sleeping lioness, do you think she would react? I think she would be pretty mad. She would likely take swift action. Let me ask you this- what if she had little lion cubs? Do you think that lioness would “up her response” and wake up the male lion sleeping just yards away? That makes me […]
UNCOMFORTABLE
Way back in fifth grade, I finally generated the courage that it took to ask one special girl to “go with me”. I prepared a small piece of paper with these familiar words: “Will you go with me?” Circle Yes or No That was pretty much it. I had my friends look over the small […]
The Case for Change
I think we can all agree that the orphan system is broken. And, churches are moderately involved at best. If the church can’t help orphans, God help the church. Several years ago, when my wife and I lived in Argentina, we had the opportunity to travel across the country to the Patagonian region of Bariloche. […]
