I met Kiran a few months ago, but if I live a hundred years I’ll still remember her. Her house is a box six feet wide and four feet deep with a roof made from sheets of plastic held in place with rocks and sticks. There’s not enough room for Kiran’s two brothers and father… 
Posts Tagged ‘poverty’
I’ve Got You (Repost)
Send Emilda To The Special Olympics
This month you and I are sending a Compassion sponsored child to the olympics!
Emilda is an 18 year-old sponsored child with the mental capacity of a three year-old. She lives in a squatter community in the Philippines. And she’s fast!…
In Light Of That
You can paint the sun or you can paint what you see by the light of it.
In 2005 I took a trip to El Salvador that changed my priorities, politics, finances, marriage, theology. For the first time in my life poverty had a name – Yanci – and face – brown and sweaty and smiling.…
You Will Always Have The Poor
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…
For The Record: Just As I Am (I Come)
They reason that because I care for the poor and vulnerable I must believe I am saved by my good works and not by the work of Jesus on the cross.
They reason that because I plead for Christians to heal and feed and educate impoverished children I must believe Jesus was a social worker and…
Worse & Better Before It Ends
As a child I sat spellbound on Sunday mornings watching our preacher pound his fist, wipe his brow and predict the end of the world. Again and again.
In the lobby hung a painting of Dallas. Cars plunged from the mixmaster. Planes crashed into buildings. Jesus stood on the clouds above the metroplex beckoning a legion…
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.
