By Meagan McCall & Images by Timothy Weisemann We arrived at the dump which happens to sit right next to the cemetery. I see the smoke rising like a cloud and smell the stench of burning trash. I see a few men off to the side. They have bags filled with other peoples garbage. One … Continue reading Holy Ground: Through the Dump of Nicaragua
By Matt Kok If we were given a reason for why there is pain and suffering in our world, we would use those reasons as an excuse to not care for those who are suffering. Now, we’re left with the choice to care. The other day, an email was waiting in my inbox. It was … Continue reading Suffering and Uganda
By Eric Hanson The first time I met Marco Antonio was when my ministry team was going to meet up with members of the Gods Child Project in Antigua, Guatemala. Marco was curled up with his back to a metal fence facing the street. Shawna stopped at his side and began to ask him a … Continue reading A Picture of Grace
By Allie Pohlmeier Last week, my friend and mother figure when I lived in Kenya, had an AK-47 thrust in her face as carjackers surrounded her car on a busy highway. She and her mother, the passenger, were shot in the head. Shot. Dead. Bill Bryson, a popular travel author describes Kibera, Kenya as: …a … Continue reading Poor College Students
By Michelle Hudgins I call myself a radical Christian. I have bravely declaimed the importance of living one’s life on the edge, of putting oneself in difficult situations simply because Jesus asks one to. I have worked up quite a fervor describing in detail all that was necessary for a life that was really worth … Continue reading Aliens and Strangers: Radical Christianity in the iPod Age
By Jenny Willis and Jeff Goins She was sitting in front of the Banamex, wrapped in a dirty rag of a dress with another rag covering her mouth. She looked up at us as we passed, but it didnt seemto register in her mind. We were just more faces in an endless sea of passersby … Continue reading The Nameless Woman
By Kari Miller I have been thinking lately about how God tends to show himself among the places we would never expect him to be. Those places that we find dirty, dark and void of goodness. I had an interesting experience this last fall in a homeless shelter in one of the darkest places of … Continue reading Minneapolis, the Homeless, and Me
By Annie Bower God loves the poor. He seems to have a special place in his heart for those who have little. Scripture often speaks of the Lord providing for (Psalm 68:10) and securing justice (Psalm 140:12) for the poor. Believers are called to help and look out for those that are poverty-stricken (Luke 14:13, … Continue reading I Believe God Loves The Poor and So Should I