Sevens and the Home Foundation

Hey everyone, sorry it has been a while since I last posted but I have just found a few great organizations that I think can change the world not only for sex trafficking but also the homeless.
The first one is called sevens from Boulder, Colorado started by a man named Benny Nowell and his family. I have known Benny for many years now and he has such a heart for God. He wanted to reach out to the homeless of Boulder by showing what love and compassion of Jesus Christ really looks like. They not only feed and clothe the homeless, but they also have Bible studies and just loves them for who they are. They have been doing this for 4 years now and love every moment and person that they meet. If you want to get involve or get more information, this is the website:
http://www.sevensonline.org/home
The other was started by someone a bit more famous, Christian singer Natalie Grant. After hearing about the atrocities that happen when it comes to sex trafficking, Mrs. Grant, in 2005, started a foundation called the Home Foundation. Today it is known as Abolition International and its whole goal is for the eradication of sex trafficking through education and places those who were sex trafficked in a stable environment so that they may have a normal life. If you would like to get involved in this organization, or learn more about the horrific facts on sex trafficking, please go to this website:
http://abolitioninternational.org/
These organizations may not have a lot in common but they do strive to make this world a little bit better. Please be informed about homelessness and sex trafficking so that one day, they may no longer exists.

Invisible Children Update

I am sorry it has been so long since I posted. I just found this video from Invisible Children and if there was ever a time to act, it is now. Please listen with an open heart and mind. We all can make a difference in this world by catching Joseph Kony and spreading the word. Share this to anyone you know.

Kony

Operation Sunrise new website

This is soo exciting. Operation Sunrise has a new website. Here is a link to it:http://skillsworthlearning.com/f09/sierra/wp. Please go to the website and see what average high schoolers can do when they set their minds to doing something. Most people judge teenagers as lazy kids who do not get involved in school and the world around them. I want you to go this website and Invisible Children's website and ask yourself, is this stereotype accurate or are there kids out there who really want to change the world. I think you will be surprise when you find out the answer.

Call to Prayer

After hearing about the earthquake in Haiti, I went to church and learned about why bad things happen to good people. The answer was simply because we are not God. Even if we are not God, we can still do something to help those people in need. We can pray. You may be saying, what will prayer do to help those people who you see on T.V. struggling. Prayer can not only help you feel better but you can ask for guidance from the Lord. Even if you are not Christian, I encourage you to pray. Pray for the people who are in those situations, pray for the people who are helping people in those situations, and pray for guidance. It does not have to be in a country far,far away. It can be the people in your country, in your town, in your street. Just pray, it will make a world a better place.

Peace Jam

I really commenterate the effort that Peace Jam puts into changing the world. It may sound weird but it is a club that really adults and teens should contribute to together. If people want to change what they see in the world around them, then why not include the people that you love? The real change starts at home because it revolutionizes the way the family thinks and acts in relationship with each other. BY acting as a peace changing unit, the family will help their friends, the amount of friends will grow into a community, the community will grow into a town, the town will grow into a county, the county will grow into the state, the state will grow into the country, and the country will grow into the world. This is how I think we can change the world.

suggestions

I need some help trying to figure out some ideas on how to help Invisible Children. If anyone has suggestions, let me know.

The Invisible Children

In the world we live in, we think that we know what is going on everywhere around us, but we do not. Did you know that right now, millions of children are fighting a war in Africa for the government? Children! These kids do not have an opprotunity to live their lives like normal children do. They do not get to laugh and play or even go to school. In the society we live in, an education is something that we get and some people don't respect it. Imagine a child in Africa who does not have the same rights as you do. These kids spend all of their lives fending for themselves. I think it is quite disgusting.

There was a rally at my school a couple of weeks ago. It was for an organization called the Invisible Children. Their goal is to stop the war in Uganda and to give these children who can not fend for themselves live. They mainly help kids who are known as " children soldiers". These children fight for a man named Joseph Kony. He literally kidnaps children from their beds and make them soldiers as young as 7 years old.

After hearing about this organization, my school decided to make a club called Operation Sunrise to help these kids get the education they so rightfully deserve. This is not to intimidate others who are not part of an organization like Operation Sunrise or Invisible Children. This is to simply to get you inspired to do something to help others. If all you can do is clean a park or help out a food bank, that is fantastic. Whether it is a small thing you do or a big thing, what matters is that you are helping someone other than yourself to make this world a better place. To me, a hero is not someone who has amazing abilities but it is someone who changes the world ,one act at a time.