Entries Tagged as 'Social Justice'

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Global Rich List Position

I wandered over to this site tonight to discover my place in the world economic spectrum. The results are stagering:
I am in the top 2.8% richest people in the world.
There are 5,831,739,130 people poorer than me.
I am the 168,260,870 richest person in the world.
It blows me away to think I am in the top 3% […]

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Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Amile

Let me tell you about a little three year old boy that captured my heart. His name is Amile. He was abandoned by his mother to a hospital around Beius, Romania after birth and he ended up in the REMM facility about a year ago. He is smart, curiouse, funny, active, and an all around […]

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Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

Abandoned Kids

Today and yesterday I spent about 3 hours each morning playing with the abandoned kids in REMM “orphanage”. Technically, the children are not orphans, because there parents did not die or become incapable of caring for them, they just abandoned them to the street or hospital when they were born. The facility houses about 24 […]

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Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

Gypsy Village

Today we visited with Romanian gypsys in their village outside of Beius. For those of you out of the know, gypsys are the lowest class in the Romanian (and really all of European) society. They cannot get jobs and cannot get anything from the government. They are very poor, and steal and beg out of […]

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Sunday, July 10th, 2005

White House Worship For Sudan

Here is a clean post of all the blogcasts of today’s Worship In The Spirit of Justice. It was such an amazing close to a great five weeks, but I will leave my closing comments and thoughts for another blog post. Enjoy the photos at Flickr and audio files below.

1:05 PM

My opening comments…
1:22 PM

Opening worship, […]

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Sunday, June 19th, 2005

Worship In The Spirit Of Justice

As promised, here are photos and (suprise) audio clips of today’s festivities! It was a great time of worship, prayer, prophetic protest, and activism at the steps of the United States Capitol Building. There was another great crowd, bigger I think, and we were greatly challenged by Rabbi Saperstein to “not stand idly by” while […]

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Monday, June 13th, 2005

Wow…

After working 12 hours, and after complaining to Jesus and Self about not getting a bigger raise at work today, I came across this post…I was moved and convicted. What an unbelievably practical way to be Jesus to the world around them! All I can say is: wow! Read the post and think about acting…
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