What does this mean for the future of the church?
From the monthly archives:
February 2008
Thank you all for making Global Awareness Night a success! Thank you for being good sports, participating, and contributing to the discussions. I hope everyone had a priceless learning experience.
A couple additional thoughts for the night
Congratulations to the ‘rich’ who decided to share with the poor – Could this have helped prevent the ‘poor’ from wanting to steal?
It’s interesting how it took a while for people to find out the ‘rich’ were offering food to them. Some still went through the entire meal unaware. Some knew, and still turned it down. Why is that?
I’d love to know how many of us went to eat another meal right after? I know some of our ‘rich’ ate after their bountiful meal
We still had leftover food at the end, mainly the spaghetti noodles, but of course none of us were really that desperate, were we? If you were hungry that night, you might have still had your ‘standards’
It was a bit unfair of us to make older folks, guests, and kids sit on the floor and not each much… but again, this is just a small glimpse of our global reality.
I’d love to hear any other thoughts, questions, and reflections from the night. See here for a list of resources and next-steps.
first off, thank God for my friend Ben who stuck with us even tho it was soo awkward for him…he’s very pessimistic about us changing the world…especially when people were going to go out afterwards to eat (including me and him who went to pho…at least it’s not buffet)…he didn’t think that an experience like this could change people, but little did he know that God is the One to change…not this global awareness night…I have hope…at least we’re not being ignorant about poverty around the world…
then i called my bf and told him about it…he was very pessimistic too…he thinks that we can never eliminate poverty…so why try?…for this world to function we have to have poor ppl…well i say, God has given us the responsibility and ability to change the world….i’m up for it…at the same time, i am not confident enough to say for sure that i can eliminate poverty (but nothing is impossible with God)…
what if…we could get to maybe? (maybe we can change the world?)…how would that look like??…what would we be doing?…i refuse to settle with doing nothing about it…there must be something I can do…
talking about getting to maybe…that is actually a title to a book (i have not read it, but am really interested in reading)…check it out on amazon (because amazon is soo very great)! http://www.amazon.ca/Getting-Maybe-How-World-Changed/dp/0679314431
if anyone wants to read a really good peer-reviewed article about change and change management, email me…and i will email it to you (don’t think i can post it here cus of copyright issues)…or u can also ask me for my really great community psychology textbook…there are these really great chapters in it on the importance of social change and creating and sustaining social change…God used it to change me (i love that textbook 52 <– a heart)
from my behaviour modification course, i learned that public declarations of commitment to change will help an individual change their behaviour (accountability…duh) so here are the ways in which i commit myself to eliminate world poverty:
- live modestly and humbly (by not overspending or being greedy)
- I got $70 for my bday (should i use it to sponsor a child or donate it all to an organization?)
- i will tell other people about this hunger banquet
Back when I was working at IBM they had a campaign called “What makes you special?”
It was all about how every company has something special they do or produce and we’re here to do everything we can so that you can be ‘special’.
So Mosaic, what makes you special? What can we as a community of faith do to help you be more special, to be the person God created you to be?
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