Poverty

It is hard to see poverty up close. It is even harder to explain it on a blog. I wish that everyone could serve people living in extreme poverty at least once in their life. It is life changing! Hunger, pain, living in dirt, inadequate shelter from the elements, not enough money for medicine when your child is sick. Children dying from fevers because they don't have money for tylenol. All things that we take for granted living in Canada.

The bible speaks of the poor and our reponsibility for them so much. Actually, poverty or poor is mentioned over 2000 times in the bible. God has a lot to say about the subject. If He speaks that many times about the poor shouldn't we also speak about it? Shouldn't we also be concerned for what concerns God? When we sit down to talk to the homeowners about what it means to receive a home they light up. To receive a home is life changing. It gives them hope. We built a home for a family at the team leaders meeting this past April. When I asked the women who was receiving the home what it meant to her she broke down. She said she had lost her father 6 months before and her brother 2 months after that. She said she stopped believing in God after losing family members. She said she realzed after we built her home that God had not forgotten her. I shared the gospel message with her and that day she came to know Christ as her Savior. These homes give families living in poverty hope. $2900 can change a families life. Sometimes for eternity.