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This Week’s Red Letters Topics Blog Buzz Question:
Let’s get back to the Word! Your challenge is to pick one verse or passage that has touched you and changed your thoughts on poverty and how the Lord might see it and respond and blog about it! If we are going to be blogging about something. . .,might as well be spreading THE WORD!
Seeking Things Above
Out of Africa: Behind the Scene
Revelation 21:1-4 (ESV) 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, ...
Grown by Adoption
God, Me and Poverty.
The new question at RLC is..."What verse or passage of scripture has touched you or changed your thoughts on poverty and how the Lord sees it and responds to it?" Strangely enough, my mind flew to a passage of scripture in Philippians ...
Maynard Mayhem
Blog Buzz Question of the Week
This weeks question is when do you commit your heart to your child? Upon sight of the referral picture, court date or homecoming?? For me personally I think your heart commitment grows little by little....day by day. ...
Seeking Things Above
Back to Liberia - For now
Genesis 50:20 (ESV) 20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. I don't know why I was born healthy and have enjoyed a life of physical ...
Thank You Africa ~ Our Ethiopian Adoption
RLC Blog Buzz: To Suffer With
If compassion means, “to suffer with”. How do we attach ourselves to the suffering of the poor? What does that look like and how do we implement in our lives? When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed ...
Grown by Adoption
Suffering with the Poor
One of the new blog buzz questions of the week is..."If compassion means, "to suffer with," how do we attach ourselves to the suffering of the poor? What does it look like and how do we implement it into our lives?" ...
Escape from the Kingdom of Me...
Blog Buzz: Wrecked for the Ordinary
I am late on this one because it was hard for me to post. Blog Buzz questions from a couple weeks ago:. One of our featured partners is “Wrecked for the Ordinary“. Consider this statement. Describe your moment of being thoroughly ...
Daddy's Daisies
"Isn't adoption expensive?"
In reference to the Red Letters Campaign question, "How do I do this, moneywise?": Pray. Ok, well, to be brutally honest, we were quite shocked when we saw the price of adoption. God laid it on our hearts to adopt, so Jana and I quickly ...
Ethiopia to Fargo
"Wrecked for the Ordinary"
Quite a statement, what does it trigger in your mind when you read the phrase, "Wrecked for the Ordinary?" There is a online magazine, of the same name in which a recent article by Sara Shelton highlighted observations of her time in ...
The Voice Of Adventure
Priorities.... RLC Blog Buzz
One of the Blog Buzz questions for Red Letters Campaign this week is... Read and respond to this verse in Proverbs 21:13 “13Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor will cry out himself and not be heard.“ ...
Following His will
RLC Blog Buzz Proverbs 21:13
Red Letters Campaign has a new blog buzz going on. I chose to respond to this verse. Proverbs 21:13“13Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor will cry out himself and not be heard.“ What does this say to your heart? ...
Periodic Ponderings
Explaining Extreme Poverty to Children
It’s hard to explain EXTREME poverty to most adults in America - we tend to picture the homeless person, (with clothes and shoes and not usually a picture of malnourishment) standing on the corner with a message written on a piece of ...
Little Did I Know
Blog Buzz - Extreme Poverty
I missed answering Blog Buzz questions while on vacation, I just didn't have time but now hopefully I'm back on track. This week the Red Letters question is on explaining extreme poverty to our kids. With Olivia, being 6, ...
Dispossessed
Pease hep the poor, the hunry, the suffing,and the opans in Gagiland
A short while back during our evening prayer time my three year old added to her prayer, " Pease hep the poor, the hunry, the suffing, and the opans in Gagiland..." and my heart swelled with joy. I had not instructed her to pray for the ...
Ronda's Rants
How do you explain extreme poverty to your kids?
My husband and I wanted to make sure that our children understood that sometimes people struggle and that God sends each one of us to make a difference in that person's life. Our family volunteered at Metropolitan Ministries, ...
Wide Open Air
Explaining Extreme Poverty to Kids
Technorati Tags: orphans,Red Letters Campaign,Blog Buzz,Africa,kids,family. This is my first attempt at answering a Blog Buzz Question for RLC, and this week's "Red Letters" Topic Question is "How do you explain extreme poverty to your ...
Gabe, Elizabeth, Perryn, and Teagan
Extreme Poverty
So, I have finally finished the book, Red Letters: Living a Faith that Bleeds. It took me about a month to get it read. I read mostly at the gym on the treadmill or the bike. First let me start off by saying, my heart is breaking! ...
The Voice Of Adventure
Getting Real With My Kids- RLC Blog Buzz
One of the questions for Blog Buzz this week was - How do you explain extreme poverty to your kids? Give tips, ideas, or even tidbits of your own conversations with children! I would say poverty and orphans and how we can make a ...
Living Freely
Kids and Poverty. . a journey of conversations
Our BlogBuzz question for this week is about explaining poverty to our children. Since we started talking about adoption, we have been pretty open and honest with our kiddos. Obviously, Brayden being almost 4 is the most conversational ...
just showing up
The hard stuff
This week's Blog Buzz question involved explaining extreme poverty to children. Here are my thoughts. We have some interesting conversations in our family. I think the natural tendency with children is to shield them from difficult ...
The Voice Of Adventure
Introducing BLOG BUZZ for RLC
See below this post for new updates on Kaiya Rain Zhen! :0). Hey everybody! We've been crazy busy at Red Letters Campaign (well, ok not me 'cause you know I'm in China with my girl) doing a bunch of cool stuff working on RLC stuff and ...
The Growing Gothro's
A clean cardboad shack
Blog Buzz question of the week: Put yourself in the place of a person who lives in extreme poverty. Write your feelings, fears and daily life struggles. Since I first found Red Letters I've been thinking about my time in Guatemala. ...
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