in the past several years, a little more at a time i have become more and more tuned and aware to what is going on and happening around the world. by this i mean the social injustices and reality of what it means to be socially aware outside our little st. charles/st. louis bubble.
two years ago we teamed up with several groups to raise money to build a well in africa for a village that would give them clean water and begin to alleviate the spread of disease for generations to come.
this past year, we teamed up again and held the first ever TOMS shoes event that for every pair of shoes we bought, one was given to a child in need somewhere in the world.
and since then... i have heard so many stories of people changing lives around the world because they believe in being a part of something bigger than themselves... playing a role in a larger global story... don't you think its time that we (the church) start being the church...
recently i caught wind of a story that made me sit back and say... "wow". there is an organization called to write love on her arms that was created to be a voice in the pain and hurt and dark world of suicide, depression, and cutting.
this story of a girl by the name of rene is a story that resonates and screams in the hearts of so many people, yet no one will ever know. the real question that we need to ask ourselves is... do we even really want to know?
i hope that we never become a place where people think that they have to have "it all together" to come in. i hope that we never become the place where we close the door some and open it to others. i pray that people come to find rescue. i pray that people come to find jesus.
will we be the church...
will we (the REALM, the church, people who call themselves followers of Christ) care about people?
RESCUE IS POSSIBLE...
there's no perfect people here...
just a bunch of broken people searching for rescue in the hands of jesus...
RESCUE IS POSSIBLE...
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(NOTE: this video is a REAL and RAW story that includes some mature language)
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