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)
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!