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Locust Effect of Violence on Poverty

April 27, 2015

In the five-plus decades of my life, little has captured my attention on poverty as the research, personal accounts, and documented cases in the book, The Locust Effect. The book painstakingly details the impact of violence on vulnerable people. Violence is like a swarm of locusts that devours the hope and incremental progress that families make. A…

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Filed Under: Missions Tagged With: justice, poverty

Safe. And you?

February 7, 2014

Keys. I have a key for my desk, my office, my home, my car, my suitcase, my post office box, and even for the lockbox in my home. There are locks on my windows and the gate on my backyard fence. I lock my car doors. Always. No, I’m not a fearful person. It’s just the way…

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Filed Under: Missions Tagged With: justice, poverty

Impact of Violence on Poverty (video)

February 5, 2014

Have you seen already articles about The Locust Effect? This week is the launch week for this critically important book on global poverty. It’s been a HUGELY successful launch! Amazon sold out of their copies! It now takes 2-4 weeks to get a copy. What’s it all about?? Being a visual person myself, this video sums…

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Filed Under: Missions Tagged With: poverty

Game Changer in Poverty Dialogue: The Locust Effect

February 3, 2014

The hidden plague of everyday violence is undermining efforts to eradicate extreme poverty worldwide. It’s true.  But I never knew it until I read The Locust Effect. Released today, The Locust Effect offers a gripping description of the common violence that devastates the world’s best efforts to end global poverty. Authors Gary Haugen and Victor Boutros…

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Filed Under: Missions Tagged With: justice, poverty

Want to take the $5 Food Challenge?

May 16, 2013

Last month, several staff members and leaders in our church lived on a food budget of $5 per person per day. A food challenge. WHY?? We committed to live on a food stamp budget for five days in order to better understand one aspect of poverty in America: the struggle to obtain adequate food. While…

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Filed Under: Missions Tagged With: missional, missions, poverty, simply transformational

Alternative Gifts for Christmas

December 6, 2012

The average American will spend $700 on gifts, gadgets, and goodies for Christmas. Whether you budget for it or splurge purchase, how will your purchases reflect the core of who you are? How can you share your faith through meaningful spending? Alternative Christmas Gifts Buy gifts from sustainable organizations like Global Goods (changing women’s lives through…

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Filed Under: Missions Tagged With: hope, integrated living, poverty

Should you give cash to a homeless person?

December 3, 2012

You move along a sidewalk in a busy city. You can see your breath with each exhale into the winter air. A homeless man comes into view leaning back on the building ahead. Do you… a) Avert your eyes and keep walking? It’s as if not seeing him, makes him not real. b) Drop a…

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Filed Under: Faith, Missions Tagged With: faith, integrated living, missions, poverty

Imprisoned by my own Stuff

November 7, 2012

The postcard noted that the donation pick-up truck would be on our street in two weeks. The non-profit group collects people’s cast-off stuff to sell in their thrift store. The items raise money to assist impoverished families with utility bills, rent, groceries and medical expenses. We have so much stuff. But I “need” it all….

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Filed Under: Faith, simply transformational Tagged With: faith, hope, poverty, simply transformational

Roy’s Story: An Orphan’s Life on the Streets of Africa, Part 2

May 19, 2012

Continued from Part 1 We found Moses on the street all beat up. We never found out who pounded him. He never was right after that. His busted up legs healed all crooked, so did his nose and cheek. Looked like half his face just hung all lazy like. Finding food has gotten harder. I…

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Filed Under: Missions Tagged With: orphans, poverty, storytelling, struggles

Roy’s Story: An Orphan’s Life on the Streets in Africa

May 18, 2012

While most of us live comfortably, orphans of AIDS, wars and poverty suffer. Their stories are often lost amidst other urgent global crises. Here, blended from several sources, is Roy’s story … a fictional account of a child living in urban Africa… It hasn’t always been this bad. Things started out ok. Actually, it was all good…

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Filed Under: Missions Tagged With: orphans, poverty, storytelling, struggles

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