want to help?

I've gotten a lot of responses to my blog saying that people wanted to help with the work that I was helping with in Jinja, Uganda. Well, here's the hospice website! http://hospicejinja.org/ There's a donation's tab where you can donate money to support them financially, or you can read through the website and see how to pray for the hospice.

Other ways you can help this missions project is to donate to the next group who goes in Summer 2011 (I will probably not be a part) and support InterVarsity's work there, or you can sponsor a child from Uganda, either though Compassion International ( compassion.org ) or World Vision ( worldvision.org ). It's $35-$38 per month to sponsor a child, which includes feeding them, sending them to school, providing activities, and sharing the gospel. You can also correspond with the child, and it's an awesome opportunity to be involved with missions on a personal level with a child across the world. I'll warn you--it was heartbreaking to have to sift through the children and choose one. Compassion International has an option where they pick the child for you, and choose a child who has been waiting over 6 months for someone to sponsor them. Maybe it would be good, though, to look through the pictures, and see how much need there is in the world. These companies only sponsor a fraction of the poor and needy, too.

Love you, hope you'll get involved!

James 1:27

But religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

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"Turn Down the Music" by Shane & Shane

If you were hungry would we give you food?

If you were thirsty would we give you drink?

If you were a stranger would we let you in?

What would be a song we’d sing to you when there in need?

Would it be an empty hallelujah to the king?

Turn down the music

Turn down the noise

Turn up your voice oh God and let us hear the sound

Of people broken, willing to love

Give us your heart oh God a new song rise in us

And if you were naked, would we give you clothes?

If you were an orphan would we give our home?

And if you were in prison, would we visit you?

What would be a song we’d sing to you when there in need?

Would it be an empty hallelujah to the king?

Turn down the music

Turn down the noise

Turn up your voice oh God and let us hear the sound

Of people broken, willing to love

Give us your heart oh God a new song rise in us

Let it be our worship

Let it be our true religion

In this world but not of it

Holding on to our confession