Comments on: The Life You Can Save

By: Monte Asbury

Monte Asbury — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:04:36 +0000

Real stuff, thanks. We have this struggle with church spending, too. I love the video projector, but man, we could keep people alive with that kind of money! Sometimes I wonder if anything that costs money is essential to the church or evangelism.

At any rate, I read a couple of weeks ago that the Pres of World Vision said (comparing hunger with 9/11 and the spending that resulted from it) that the number of children who die every day from hunger is something like crashing an airliner full of children every 15 minutes, 24/7.

My God!

By: Lady Bird Hill

Lady Bird Hill — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:21:14 +0000

I have this book. It rox my sox

By: Dan Smitley

Dan Smitley — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:34:30 +0000

Funny that I just found this blog. Just yesterday I was wondering how different our purchases would be if we related our money to the lives we could be impacting of saving.

“how much are those shoes… oh 1 month of education in Africa, I don’t know if i can swing that. Could you take that down to 2 weeks of clean water instead?”

I have a sad feeling that too many of us would still be purchasing as much as we are now and simply become even MORE insensitive to the needs of others.

By: rich

rich — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:01:36 +0000

Hey, now… I posted this before you bought those shoes!

By: Stacey

Stacey — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:52:03 +0000

Was that to make me feel guilty about those new shoes I just purchased?

Kidding.

Thanks for the thought provoking post!

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:20:32 +0000

So true, Rich. I all too often waste my money on amenities when I could be investing it into ministries.

By: Zee

Zee — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:08:38 +0000

i guess we just don’t remember to think in terms that real – when you face the actual choice between shoes and a child’s life. the cases seem so far away, yet they are not.

By: Billie

Billie — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:23:24 +0000

A lady in our former church had one of the most giving and caring spirits of any I have ever been associated with. I often heard her say, “Live simply so that others may simply live.” That thought still affects some of my decisions today. (It should affect more).

By: RG

RG — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:50:39 +0000

Rich – I am challenged personally and professionally with this everyday. Our agency is struggling to make ends meet in this economy while seeing an ever increasing number of people seeking help for a place to live, money to pay bills or food for their family – right here in Porter County. So I struggle with whether our family should enjoy a night out together at a movie for our anniversary while I wonder how we can get the agency on solid financial footing to serve other families.