- Monday, October 31, 2011
- Katie Burke
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Are you looking for ways to truly encourage thankful hearts during this Thanksgiving season? Start with making the reality of poverty "personal" with these ideas from Compassion International:
Live 58 Features
Isaiah 58 says: Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice--to set the oppressed free! to share your food with the hungry and provide the poor wanderer with shelter? "Speak Up With Compassion®" is focusing on how we can be a part of ending extreme poverty in our liftetime. Live58.org is Compassion's global connection point--a place to gather to take action together. Listeners will hear about the kind of "fast" for children that will make a difference--right now!
Act: Contact Katie to air the special "Live 58" features on "Speak Up With Compassion®" 11/14-11/30
Slavery Footprint
Do you know how many slaves work on your behalf? Your "total slavery footprint" represents the number of forced laborers that were likely to be involved in creating and manufacturing the products you buy.
Act: Check out your slavery footprint
One Meal One Day
Daily 143 million children worldwide don't get enough to eat. That's a big problem. It needs a big solution. But what if that big solution came in a small package? One Meal One Day is a way for you to show that solution to students in your church and community. This annual event brings together thousands of students, as they skip a meal and give the money they would have spent to help feed hungry children.
Act: Skip a meal, change your world--see how!
Don't forget...poverty becomes "personal" every day on "Speak Up With Compassion®" when Compassion's President Wess Stafford responds to real prayers from children in poverty.
Katie Burke
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