by Crystal Rowe | Jul 12, 2012 | ministry, SERVE
The average self-proclaimedly active Christian gives about 2% of their income to the church. If all self-proclaimedly active Christians gave merely an average of 5%, there would be $133 billion more to do the work of the gospel. As I read this on a friend’s...
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by Crystal Rowe | May 31, 2012 | activist faith, poverty, SERVE
My name is Divya Patel. I’m a brickmaker in India with 4 kids. My family and I live on less than $1.25 a day. This is a month in my life. I choose to live in the slums rather than the village because even though it’s crowded and dangerous, but we are near...
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by Dan King | Mar 2, 2012 | READ
I’m not surprised a lot by this month’s list of what BibleDude.net readers are getting themselves into. It was a month when I was on a mission trip to Haiti doing a great deal of work with orphans and the poor. So to see several books on these issues on...
![book review: when helping hurts [how to alleviate poverty without hurting the poor … and yourself]](https://bibledude.life/wp-content/uploads/WhenHelpingHurts.jpg)
by Dan King | Feb 24, 2012 | activist faith, book reviews, missions, poverty, READ
It was all starting to make perfect sense. I listened to stories about communities who didn’t seem to care about maintenance as I stood there in Haiti looking at a broken (and now unusable) well. I also heard stories about American missions teams coming to visit...
![building a better boat [thoughts before my trip back to haiti]](https://bibledude.life/wp-content/uploads/haitian-boat1.jpg)
by Dan King | Feb 8, 2012 | activist faith, haiti, missions, poverty, SERVE
[serialposts]I feel like I’m learning the definition of trust as I hesitantly step into the boat. My anxiety increases with every heartbeat as I casually inspect the vessel that’s about to take me across Lake Azuei. Now isn’t the time for me to...
