Dear Blog Reader, Do you have room under your tree for the gift of freedom? There is still time this Christmas season to give the gift that will bring hope, dignity and freedom to those in great need. Visit the 2008 Gift of Freedom Holiday Catalog today and give freedom to everyone on your list! How it works: 1. You purchase a meaningful gift. 2. A beautiful card describing the gift is delivered to your friend or loved one. 3. Your gift is used by IJM to bring freedom to children, women and men in great need. To ensure your card arrives by December 24, please place your order no later than December 17.
Featured gift: A day of Investigative Work - $50 The poor are often left trapped and alone in the face of violent oppression. Give someone in desperate need the priceless gift of a highly trained IJM investigator who will work relentlessly to uncover their abuse and mobilize a rescue operation that will bring individuals forced into slavery and prostitution to freedom. Please visit the 2008 Gift of Freedom Holiday Catalog today. Merry Christmas, |
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IJM for Christmas
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December 12, 2008 | 
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Fill a stocking with freedom
jim | December 2, 2008 | 0 Comments
Dear Blog Reader, This Christmas, give a gift so precious that you wouldn’t dream of wrapping it: Freedom. International Justice Mission has meaningful gifts that bring hope, dignity and freedom to those in great need. How it works: 1. You purchase a gift from IJM’s Holiday Gift Catalog. 2. A beautiful card detailing the gift is delivered to your friend or loved one. 3. Your gift is used by IJM to bring freedom to children, women and men in great need. Featured gift: A day of Advocacy – $70 The poor are often left voiceless in the aftermath of violent oppression. Give someone in desperate need the priceless gift of a highly professional IJM lawyer who will bring the law to bear on their behalf. Visit the 2008 Gift of Freedom Holiday Catalog today and give freedom to everyone on your list! Warmly, |
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Charity or Justice
jim | October 23, 2008 | 0 Comments
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This from the Inward/Outward Newsletter of Church of Savior by …Bill Moyers Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which if individuals choose not to be charitable, people will not go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table. Source: Foreword, Faith Works: From the Life of an Activist Preacher by Jim Wallis Technorati Tags: justice, kingdom, revolution |
21 ways to help serve America
jim | October 20, 2008 | 0 Comments
I read this article in Time Magazine last week at the chiropractor.
Took me a while to track down the link online.
Here it is from the Time Magazine website. here
money,money,money!!
A lot of talk about money and the economy these days. Most of it very negative because of the immediate and impending ramifications of our personal and countries financial affairs. It is good to hear about some people taking some proactive steps to to address the issues connected to all this. Below are two specific ones I have come across in the last week.
Todd Hiestand — The Connection Between Debt and Mission
Mark Scandrette — SIMPLIFY: A life planning and money management workshop
This is great for Pennsylvania and California what about Metro-Detroit?
Technorati Tags: money, debt, simplicity, economics,
benefits of kindness
jim | October 1, 2008 | 0 Comments
My friend Rob Lane in CA came across this article for part of his masters in psycholgy work.
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Kindness is not only something that has positive benefits for ourselves, it is something that has a positive effect on the community. Allan Luks states, “The new knowledge about [the beneficial effects of] helping others holds the power to affect not only the health of the individual, but the health of our entire, tension-ridden society”.
Compare with Ephesians 4:32
some goals
jim | September 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
I have sent some goals for myself to coincide with the kids current school year. I will mention them from time to time in order remind myself and open myself up to accountability. The first few I have set for myself are health related.
- drink more water (see badge below)
- small exercise and stretching regime in morning before work
- be in bed by 9:30!
good reading from m.s.a
jim | September 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
m.s.a= mustard seed associates …. Tom and Christine Sine
They have a great monthly e-newsletter and these two articles are from this month. Both articles look at living simply as a family which has been a wonderful journey for our family the last few years. [[simplicity]]
http://msainfo.org/articles/living-simply-with-kids
http://msainfo.org/articles/what-living-in-europe-has-taught-me-about-living-simply
Please feel free to comment on the topic.
Technorati Tags: simplicity, family, experiment
buy local produce
jim | July 14, 2008 | 0 Comments
“If every household started spending just $10 per week of their current grocery budget on locally grown foods, we’d keep more than $37 million each week circulating within Michigan’s economy.”
read rest of newspaper article here
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