First world problems

There really isn't a "third world" today. The term comes from when people characterized the world as developed nations, nations behind the "Iron Curtain" and the undeveloped "third world." It's more like the "two-thirds" world. THAT world doesn't worry about Wii remotes; it worries about clean water, where their next meal will come from, and diseases. THAT world CAN CHANGE if we here have the will to make it happen. Already global severe poverty has been cut in half, and organizations like World Vision, Amazima, Compassion, and the like are working to give people in THAT WORLD a chance at a better life.

Bunny and I sponsor a child in Rwanda. Sean sponsors a little girl in Ethiopia. Several others at New Hope also do individually as well as classes also sponsoring children. We've sold bags made by women in Malawi to help families climb up out of poverty. We've purchased the Universal Nut Sheller to help raise production of peanuts - again so people can climb up. There are others we've done, but I wanted to give you a glimpse of what a small group of people in THIS WORLD can do.

What are YOU doing?

Friends, we may not be able to fix the world, but we can DO SOMETHING! - and we ought to. That "least of these" comment Jesus made? He meant it.

Love Wins!

This is the face of the love of Christ.

She lives in Vietnam, a communist country that officially is opposed to Christianity. But love will find you.

She's been taken into the family of a man (through a World Vision sponsorship) who served two tours in Vietnam. He was a soldier. The sounds and sights of battle still are with him, and the loss of friends still aches. For many years he has carried animosity toward the people of Vietnam. He's not alone in that. Some would say "It's only natural."

Well, the love of Christ is SUPERNATURAL.

So Larry Smith Sr., Veteran of Vietnam, former infantryman with the Blue Spaders of the Big Red One, is so filled with the love of Christ that he felt compelled to move against that which had held him captive for so long.

And Love won.

That's why we call our community... New Hope.