"We have to help them!"

This whole summer, I've been working at a company called Innotec. Innotec is actually a pretty cool place to work (for the most part). As a company, Innotec was founded upon Biblical principles, and one of their main focuses for this year is stewardship. It has been important for them in the past, but it's specifically a focus this year. Example: one of my responsibilities for this summer was to plan a cell stewardship outing. So my cell (and one other guy) went to Habitat for Humanity for a day and worked on a house. The seven of us put up trusses by hand for most of the day. All this was encouraged by Innotec. In fact, Innotec in the past has allotted two weeks of paid time off for full-timers to do stewardship work (mission trips, various single day things, etc.), but recently have started to move away from that model in favor of specifically trying to make an impact.



Some of this was brought about because one of the founders of Innotec read a book that was written 15ish years ago. The book talked about people in India who were just starving and dying because they didn't have money or help. At some point, he had read a little bit of the book to his fairly young daughter (under 10 I believe). Then she turned to him and said, "We have to help them!" He has brought this up in several meetings and is pushing for Innotec to do things that make an impact. Example: Innotec recently rebuilt an oil drilling truck and sent it to Nigeria with funds to drill some wells in order to help the water situation.

But what about you? What are you going to do to help? How are you going to impact people? Good question. I'm not the one to answer it for you (that's up to you), but I can say some stuff to make you think, eh? (I hope I already did, because I don't have a whole lot more)

Seriously though, it's not that hard. Some of my friends from school started a relationship with a homeless guy last year. They put him up in a hotel for a couple nights in the winter and brought him a some meals. Almost more importantly though, they would sit and just talk with him.

There are lots of opportunities to do something; some as easy as giving money, others as consuming as joining a missions agency of sorts.
Examples:
Association for a more Just Society (AJS) - Simplified version: AJS has been working in Honduras for around a decade. During all that time, they have helped countless oppressed people get titles for their land, gotten rights for workers in various industries, and started community outreach programs within some of the poorest neighborhoods. From all these things, real results have been seen.
Note: AJS's involvement in Honduras is a little more complicated, as they go through ASJ (Asociación por una Sociedad mas Justo).

Youth With A Mission (YWAM) - YWAM is a really interesting program that I honestly don't know a ton about, but I know a few people who have been involved. They have all said good things about their experiences.


Anyways, thoughts?
I kinda just ran out of steam, to be honest, what with random people walking in and out of the family room, getting distracted, etc. Sorry about that, haha. Also, I apologize for the long hiatus (again), and I hope to get another one up before I leave for school in eight days. Once I'm at school, I should have a little more time, what with not working 40+ hours a week. I know I'll have school, but it's different.