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Economics of the Kingdom?

by Jim on 10 July 2009

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Many missionaries face the issue of poverty (at various levels) on a daily basis.  There are many different ways they deal with it, many questions to be asked, many challenges to be faced.

Here’s a little glimpse into one blogger’s experience with poverty, crime, giving and decisions in Sudan, Africa.  The post is called living on $30 / month.

What do you think?  What kind of decisions would you make?  What decisions do you make?  (hint: doing "nothing" is also a decision)

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All right – I’ll have to admit that the Missionary Blog Carnival hasn’t been a roaring success so far.  But more on that later.  This time there was one entry – well, two including me.  :)

The topic this month is poverty.  I’m going to do a couple of things here.  First, let’s look at some posts on the topic, including our two entries:

All right, now.  I decided to add something else to this post that you might find interesting.  We’re going to do a quick blog tour of some of the world’s poorest countries. Below are a few of the bloggers who are in some of these countries.  Of course, this doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re working with the world’s poorest people, but I think if you visit these blogs you’ll learn a bit about these areas.  Now remember, at least half of the people in these countries live on US$1 or less per day:

This post was written to coincide with Blog Action Day 2008.

I’m not quite ready to give up on the blog carnival idea – stay tuned for more!

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Ireland(s), Scotland and England

4 January 2008

Yes, we’re bringing in the New Year by visiting Ireland and the UK.  Check out these posts and then browse around the blogs for more… Life of a Steward:  Making friends in fun ways – climbing walls and Indian food, and how about these paintings, photographs and sculptures. Brandon’s Blog:  Be sure not to miss [...]

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Poverty and dust storms

1 August 2006

Photo courtesy of cote Poverty is something that’s been on my mind a lot lately.  Of course, in some ways it seems like it’s been on everybody’s minds – in the news, and so on.  But if it’s so much on our minds, are we really doing anything about it? I appreciated this heart-felt post [...]

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