HourChallenge

If you follow the blog you might have wondered where I’ve been over the last week+. Well, we’ve been running around like mad people busy pulling together all of the last minute details surrounding the much anticipated and much attended alternative gift market.
The event was a success by all measures (I’ll fill you all [...]

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I think we’ve mentioned the book Not For Sale in previous posts. It’s an incredibly powerful read that details the sad and terrible facts of human trafficking. David Batstone – Professor of Ethics at the University of San Francisco – with students at USF is doing some incredibly bold things to combat this [...]

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I received a flyer this weekend in our church mailbox informing us that November is National Adoption Month. The flyer read: “Millions of children wait in hope that, someday, they will know the love of a family. Please adopt!”
The flyer took me back a little bit. As many of you know we [...]

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Tuesday 11/6
Spent some time today updating my personal email list and asked everyone I know to go on the record let the 2008 presidential candidates know that we want to hear where they stand on extreme poverty.
Time spent = 1 hour
The On the Record Petition:
As a member of ONE, I write to ask you to [...]

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If we hope to have global poverty on the agenda in ’08, we’re going to need to demand it. In the last two presidential debates, Republican and Democratic, global poverty didn’t rack up a lot of air time. Please take a minute and sign the On the Record petition at one.org.
Let’s make [...]

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I am giving myself a new little challenge. I plan to make “responsible” clothing purchases for the next year. This is a small but necessary step to moving toward total responsibility in my purchasing habits.
Merriam-Webster defines responsible as: 1) liable to be called on to answer 2) able to answer for [...]

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I’ve been keeping up on my commitment to spend an hour each day doing my part in the fight to end extreme poverty.  Truth be told, I just got busy and a little board of writing daily hour logs.  I thought I’d start posting some logs again this month, though, just to keep anyone who [...]

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I recently wrote about a garage sale the boys had dreamed up to help with a national hunger campaign that our church is participating in. This post is a follow up to that article.
The boys raised $428.00 today! We just pulled the last signs down and dropped off the remaining items at Goodwill. [...]

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