10/18/2024
How has poverty affected you or is personal to you? Our personal connection of needs helps grow our compassion and desire to help others in need. (Think 2 Corinthians 1:3-4.)
When I was a child, time between paychecks became interesting for my parents and family. My parents were good at making light of having no money. I recall playing-let's look for change all over the car and see who can find the most. It was a fun game of digging in the seat cushions that was a hard reality for my parents that we may be walking home if we run out of gas! Those coins would give us just enough to drive four miles out of town to make it home.
On days off, my dad would offer to do small jobs here and there to help others and use the earnings to help his family. I'm thankful for people and God making those provisions for us in those days.
Today, I see many who struggle to find the coins in the cushions, there is no one to play the game with; or for someone to believe in them to be and do good things with themselves, like people did for my dad.
Rethink charity. Instead of just throwing money at poverty, what would it look like to engage in another's hardship world, befriend them, and encourage them along in life?
I'm grateful people in my young life saw poverty differently!
November 15th. 9a-4p. Pioneer Room at CCCB, Moberly. Learn more. See poverty differently.
Register: https://www.truecharity.us/event/moberly/
Randolph County Ministerial Alliance
