Comments on: The Awful Reality of Poverty http://blog.compassion.com/the-awful-reality-of-poverty/ Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:31:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Diana King http://blog.compassion.com/the-awful-reality-of-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-1518 Diana King Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:11:01 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=429#comment-1518 Thanks for sharing the video with us. We should know that such circumstances are what bring forth drug use to escape reality. Let us all try and stop this by helping our fellow man. .................................. Diana King <a href="http://Christian Drug Rehab" rel="nofollow">christian-drug-rehab.org</a> Thanks for sharing the video with us. We should know that such circumstances are what bring forth drug use to escape reality. Let us all try and stop this by helping our fellow man.
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Diana King
christian-drug-rehab.org

]]> By: Gavin Terukina http://blog.compassion.com/the-awful-reality-of-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-1480 Gavin Terukina Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:08:27 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=429#comment-1480 Thanks for the video. It's so hard to maintain a global perspective when we live in a land of plenty – I think we all need the foundations of our soul to be shaken from time to time, to help us maintain the right perspectives. Thanks for the video. It’s so hard to maintain a global perspective when we live in a land of plenty – I think we all need the foundations of our soul to be shaken from time to time, to help us maintain the right perspectives.

]]> By: Amanda http://blog.compassion.com/the-awful-reality-of-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-1478 Amanda Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:39:10 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=429#comment-1478 Yes, the video was very difficult to watch. I wish I could just reach out and fix it...but I can't. It makes me feel so helpless to see such suffering and be so limited in my ability to help. But I know that I am so blessed in comparison to the poor. So I must do what I can...even if it seems small in comparison to the enormity of the problem. And there is strength in numbers...by working together we can help feed more of the hungry, heal more of the sick, and touch more people for God. Here is a utube video that has really touched my heart. I have a hard time watching it without crocodile tears streaming down my cheeks. Get out the tissue before waching. Be sure to have the volume turned on. It is also very sobering. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSdP6PqsbJY Yes, the video was very difficult to watch. I wish I could just reach out and fix it…but I can’t. It makes me feel so helpless to see such suffering and be so limited in my ability to help. But I know that I am so blessed in comparison to the poor. So I must do what I can…even if it seems small in comparison to the enormity of the problem. And there is strength in numbers…by working together we can help feed more of the hungry, heal more of the sick, and touch more people for God.

Here is a utube video that has really touched my heart. I have a hard time watching it without crocodile tears streaming down my cheeks. Get out the tissue before waching. Be sure to have the volume turned on. It is also very sobering.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSdP6PqsbJY

]]> By: Beth Ingersoll http://blog.compassion.com/the-awful-reality-of-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-1473 Beth Ingersoll Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:47:06 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=429#comment-1473 We forget how truly, abundantly blessed we are. I couldn't imagine living like that, and it's hard to think about all of those who do... We forget how truly, abundantly blessed we are. I couldn’t imagine living like that, and it’s hard to think about all of those who do…

]]> By: Juli Jarvis http://blog.compassion.com/the-awful-reality-of-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-1472 Juli Jarvis Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:12:30 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=429#comment-1472 Thank you for sharing the film with us -- a very sobering reality. Thank you for sharing the film with us — a very sobering reality.

]]> By: Allan http://blog.compassion.com/the-awful-reality-of-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-1468 Allan Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:18:44 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=429#comment-1468 I just returned from 14 days in Ethiopia out near the border with Sudan. I saw first hand what the global food prices are doing to normal people who live on the same income they have for years, but are now paying much greater prices. I visited an orphanage where the kids are eating so little each day that starvation is always a threat if prices go up even a fraction. Not to be harsh, but here in America we don't even understand this type of living. We do feel the pinch of rising costs for fuel and food, but we have the option to cut out that daily Starbucks or not to go to a movie. Out in the area I was, the people work all day and the only thing they have to cut out of their lives when prices rise is the food they eat. While there, we were able to help out over 10 families by giving them basic food stuffs (grain, oil, sugar) that will last them for months and only cost us the equivalent of a few US priced meals. I was convicted by seeing the face of poverty that I have a responsibility to help as much as I can. I just returned from 14 days in Ethiopia out near the border with Sudan. I saw first hand what the global food prices are doing to normal people who live on the same income they have for years, but are now paying much greater prices. I visited an orphanage where the kids are eating so little each day that starvation is always a threat if prices go up even a fraction.
Not to be harsh, but here in America we don’t even understand this type of living. We do feel the pinch of rising costs for fuel and food, but we have the option to cut out that daily Starbucks or not to go to a movie. Out in the area I was, the people work all day and the only thing they have to cut out of their lives when prices rise is the food they eat.
While there, we were able to help out over 10 families by giving them basic food stuffs (grain, oil, sugar) that will last them for months and only cost us the equivalent of a few US priced meals.
I was convicted by seeing the face of poverty that I have a responsibility to help as much as I can.

]]> By: Jennifer A Mills http://blog.compassion.com/the-awful-reality-of-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-1467 Jennifer A Mills Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:16:55 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=429#comment-1467 "Emotionally disconnected" is a good phrase. I recently heard the word "philantropassion" and think that adequately describes what you do here at Compassion, Int'l! Jen http://www.marketing-helper.com “Emotionally disconnected” is a good phrase. I recently heard the word “philantropassion” and think that adequately describes what you do here at Compassion, Int’l!

Jen
http://www.marketing-helper.com

]]> By: Kristin http://blog.compassion.com/the-awful-reality-of-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-1464 Kristin Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:41:45 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=429#comment-1464 Thanks for passing along this video. Emotionally disconnected is exactly where I was... God used this video (and a few other divine moments this week) to soften my heart again. Thanks for passing along this video. Emotionally disconnected is exactly where I was… God used this video (and a few other divine moments this week) to soften my heart again.

]]> By: Melissa Coast http://blog.compassion.com/the-awful-reality-of-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-1463 Melissa Coast Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:30:07 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=429#comment-1463 I'd like to answer your question! I'm taking the profits I make from my Mary Kay skin care classes/makeover parties and donating them to the Global Food Crisis Fund this summer.(I'm a Mary Kay Consultant) Through my customer's purchases and donations, I've managed to raise $242.50 so far. My goal is to raise $1000 by September 15th. Also, blogging about the effects of the crisis helps put the reality in front of people so those stories dont get lost in the news... I've blogged about the article I found on CNN. Here's a link to it. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/09/ethiopia.hunger.ap/index.html We can all do SOMETHING! I’d like to answer your question! I’m taking the profits I make from my Mary Kay skin care classes/makeover parties and donating them to the Global Food Crisis Fund this summer.(I’m a Mary Kay Consultant) Through my customer’s purchases and donations, I’ve managed to raise $242.50 so far. My goal is to raise $1000 by September 15th.

Also, blogging about the effects of the crisis helps put the reality in front of people so those stories dont get lost in the news… I’ve blogged about the article I found on CNN. Here’s a link to it.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/09/ethiopia.hunger.ap/index.html

We can all do SOMETHING!

]]> By: Compassion dave http://blog.compassion.com/the-awful-reality-of-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-1462 Compassion dave Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:59:23 +0000 http://blog.compassion.com/?p=429#comment-1462 That was difficult to watch and even more difficult to not watch now that it is over. That was difficult to watch and even more difficult to not watch now that it is over.

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