I go to a youth group that dose some fun stuff. We recently play the Great Hudinie escape. Thats were you make a group of 4 and chain eachother up with combanation locks and you have to go to diffrent places on the bus to get a lock unlocked.
My group ended up walking half way across town because we missed one bus. but i was walking behind the group cause i got unlocked. but while i was walking i was looking at this fitness edge sign that was huge and the lights were on in the building but i knew it was closed at quarter to ten. I though about the power that goes into the building and how much it would cost to eluminate that sign 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Got to thinking do they really need to light the city up with thousands of street lights. i thought that was what headlights were for. i thought how much money would we save if we turned off al the unnessasary lights from when places close to when they open. i thought maybe thousands and maybe millions (for the bigger city's) but if we did this we could help out a dieing country.
My friend whent to uganda in the summer and said well it is real poverty stricken. Well as a "rich" country could we change that? i know it is a big leap to trie to save the world but like us at church how often do we spend money on crap we don't need. like those new lights did we need them, do we need 15 speakers when 8 will do the trick, do we need a bigger office or a nicer kitchen. NO not really. but then agian doe we need what we have a 500 doller cell phone a 50,000 doller car 1,00's in clothes a 200 doller watch you only wear with one outfit. in nthe same way people complain about our government saying a-holes gotta keep all our money well i bet if you got 60,000 dollers more a year you wouldn't give much more than you do now. everyone gets money and spends it the more money you get the more expencive your stuff gets period.
Rob bell from nooma says in a video that like 5% of the people in the world have a car but in north amarica if you don't have a car you are missing out? other people look at your car, he says, and nomatter what it is a real big peice o crap and most people think "Rich".
what could we do to help out ohters give 5 bucks a month. okay thats somthing but what can our city, church, government. what can they do, what will they do when people die from hunger but others choke to death?
blessings
jimbo
