I Dare You - Invest With Me

I dare you to invest in humanity with me.

To close your eyes and see... 

See with me a place where others have the resources to provide for their children.

Where fathers have ways to express talent.

See a place where idle hands find fulfilment.

Help create a place to extravagantly dare to invent in humanity without a threat of the bottom-line.

Those crushing numbers squeezing out hope. 
The lives of people getting lost in the margin.

The hope to believe that the investment in humanity can be a beautiful thing.

Something worth giving your life for...

Hoping..

Believing..

 Let's hope and believe together in something greater than ourselves. 

Finding the desire to create communities with hope.

Empower people with skills and resources to birth a generation that is not looking at poverty, orphans, malnutrition and AIDS as "normal" or just a way of life.

Usher in a new generation... 

A generation with hope for a future.

I dare you to extravagantly invest in humanity.

Dare with me to believe in something more.

This is "Commonality".

Finding what we have in common, but never being common.

You Aren't Just Buying A Thing

Levon

Levon wears his war wound like a crown

He calls his child Jesus

'Cause he likes the name

And he sends him to the finest school in town

Levon, Levon likes his money

He makes a lot they say

Spend his days counting

In a garage by the motorway

He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day

When the New York Times said God is dead 

And the war's begun

Alvin Tostig has a son today

And he shall be Levon

And he shall be a good man

And he shall be Levon

In tradition with the family plan

And he shall be Levon

And he shall be a good man

He shall be Levon

Levon sells cartoon balloons in town

His family business thrives

Jesus blows up balloons all day

Sits on the porch swing watching them fly

And Jesus, he wants to go to Venus

Leaving Levon far behind

Take a balloon and go sailing

While Levon, Levon slowly dies
- Elton John

Uganda - What is the LRA?

Uganda

Nearly two million people in Northern Uganda have been displaced from their homes and villages as a result of the ongoing, catastrophic war traveling throughout East Africa. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), led by Joseph Kony, began its malicious movement in 1986 with a horrific agenda of torturing individuals, setting villages on fire, and abducting thousands of children. Within two decades, the LRA had recruited nearly 66,000 youth to their army, forcing children to be soldiers, “wives”, and slaves.

In 1996, the Government of Uganda forced approximately 1.8 million people to relocate to Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps in an effort to provide refuge and protection, however, a decade later the situation in IDP camps worsened as they became filled with disease, poverty, malnourishment, and few opportunities to leave.

Throughout the last few years, many people have been permitted to leave IDP camps and return to their villages, however, individuals and communities at large have been left with little hope of returning to their normal way of life or attaining social equity. The limited access to education, employment, and sustainability has forced many people to relocate to the District of Gulu, where they are seeking aid and opportunity.

As you can imagine, children are at risk because of these issues in Uganda. In May we will be headed to Uganda to help bring sustainability to women and children in transition. 

Please stay tuned for more information about the work that we will be doing and for more details about our schedule and how you can help.

Imagine...

Ephesians 3:20...

Now to him who is able to do immeasurable more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us.