At
Mission U, formerly known as the School of Christian Mission the
Micah Corps interns took a class on Poverty. The first poverty
session we discussed Deuteronomy 15:11 which says, “There will
always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be open
handed toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your
land.”
We
made a list of words that come to our mind when we hear the word
“poverty.” Some of those words include: hunger, lack of
education, economic inequality, food desert, unemployment, health
issues, doing without utilities, difficult choices, and homeless.
While these are common words that are associated with “poverty”
we are still called to care for the poor. Poverty has been a problem
since Biblical times. We can’t just give to the poor because giving
= fixing and fixing is short term. If we truly want to help the poor
we need to start looking at the injustices in our worldly and
governmental systems here in the United States and across the
Nations.
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