By Matt Snyder There are so many times that I just think I could be doing better. I always feel like I could be doing that much more than what I already am. It’s easy to walk these streets and feel like I’m a Christian who has it all together, that just because I had … Continue reading One Step Behind: How to help beggars
By Mark Hollingsworth In The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Talladega Nights there’s a hilarious scene where Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly and Jane Lynch are arguing around the dinner table about whether or not it’s correct to pray to “little baby Jesus.” Well, we’re in that time of year again where the infant Christ becomes … Continue reading Baby Jesus in the Bar
By Lindsey Eggebrecht While doing Mission Year in Philadelphia, we are given the opportunity to visit the city and live a day in the life of a Pauper. Instead of going to feed the hungry, we will learn what it is like to be hungry on the street. We have no money or food but … Continue reading A Pauper’s Rite of Passage: Mission Year in Philadelphia
By Onleilove Alston In July I attended the DC campaign kick-off for the Justice at Smithfield Campaign. Smithfield Foods is the largest pork processor and producer in the world, the fourth largest turkey processor and fifth largest beef processor in the U.S. In the early 1990s Smithfield opened its Tar Heel, North Carolina plant, with … Continue reading Bless The Hands That Prepared This Food
By Sarah Russell I really like Excel spreadsheets. They’re so cool with their formulas and grids and table and whatnot. I know I don’t know how to use them to their full-extent but I really like them. Tonight, I decided to check out my finances for the remainder of my mission here in Japan. I … Continue reading Moses and Managing My Money
By Jeni Griffin “Oh my gosh, these are amazing!” I exclaimed as my mom gasped at me in horror. After being in Africa for a year serving with Mercy Ships where the humidity is constantly 80-90% or more, stale nacho chips were a norm, so the bag of semi-stale chips seemed fantastic to me! For … Continue reading Many Blessings: Satisfaction after starvation
By Kevin D. Hendricks Ive never been homeless. Ive never had to wonder where I was going to spend the night. Ive never had to contemplate sleeping in my car. Ive never had to consider who I would call if I lost my house and had nowhere to go. Ive never had to consider how … Continue reading Homeless For A Night
By Jamie Finch It was the City itself that called me to it. It told me it needed me to come. For me, New York City had always had this unexplainable draw, as if it held within it all of the answers to the questions that I didn’t even know how to ask yet. And … Continue reading Unlikely Orphans
By Tom Schiavon Much of my Christian life has been a progressive understanding of God’s heart for the poor. He has shown me his concern for the poor in the statutes of the Pentateuch; the judgments of the prophets; the laments of the Psalmist; and the selfless service of Christ, the Apostles, and the early … Continue reading Loving the Rich Along with the Poor
By Jamie Wallace Jamie just returned from Ethiopia with the Red Letters Campaign to help Children’s Hopechest launch an orphan care ministry. He was most moved by the people in the country, including this blind beggar. This story originally appeared on the Red Letters Campaign blog, a partner site of Wrecked. Worship at St. Georges … Continue reading Treasuring Christ: Lessons from an Ethiopian Beggar