This is a reposting from my trip to Guatemala with Compassion Bloggers. I woke up with this sermon on my mind this morning – trying to wrestle it into rhyme and melody today. You will always have the poor…the opportunity…the gift of giving.
In a sanctuary turned classroom and gymnasium, over a bowl of chicken and… 
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You Will Always Have The Poor
We Survived For A Reason: We All Have A Role To Play
“Karen, I’m sorry but I can’t go to Haiti with you guys,” I wrote on November 19, 2009.
Karen, who works for Compassion International in Canada, asked me to co-lead the trip that would show Canadian pastors how Compassion was partnering with churches in Port-au-Prince to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the city’s…
Of Angels & Goats
“Here’s two dollars,” he said, laying the crumpled bills in my hand on top of the others.
“How much money do you have?”
“Uhhh…about over a hundred and sixty-something,” he said.…
Happy 5000!
Two years ago Compassion International took a risk no one else in the non-profit world was willing to take. They brought a group of bloggers to Uganda to see their ministry to children, to post videos and pictures and writes hundreds of words about the experience.
No requirement to say nice things. No marketing team coaching…
Yanci Is Famous…Again
If you’ve read my blog for long you probably already know about Yanci (pronounced Jahn’-see). She’s famous.
What the world hasn’t heard about until now is how God used her to change her dad’s life. How God worked through and with all of us to bring about that change.
Because typing one-handed is not my favorite…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
