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Haunting portraits of the homeless (a CNN photo story)

…or, it could be titled, “Created in the image of God.”

Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one’s life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the
evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement

Show us that joy comes when we are caught up in works of mercy and find ourselves unable to distinguish between our blessings and those of our brothers and sisters.

Book of Common Prayer

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, 
   for the rights of all who are destitute.

Proverbs 31:8

…the heart of an orphan.  The heart of me.

Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“Generous Justice” by Tim Keller

Highly recommend…

You can’t love people in word only and therefore you can’t love people as you are doing evangelism and discipleship without meeting practical and material needs through deeds

Tim Keller, Generous Justice

Video Link:  !C//ORPHAN Tom Davis on Call of Every Christian (Part 2)

For more info and to join us in Feb, please visit TheIdeaCamp.com and register.

Video Link:  !C//ORPHAN Keynote, Tom Davis on Justice

We are honored to have Tom Davis as a guide at the upcoming Idea Camp Orphan Care.  We spent a few minutes with him in Austin to hear his heart for the orphan and justice.

Spend a few minutes and consider coming to Idea Camp in Feb.  This is just a tip of the iceberg.

There is a very dear and very special team of people from NW Arkansas who are in Haiti today serving with Help End Local Poverty.

Please take a few moments to follow their story on the Help End Local Poverty Blog

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