Thursday, August 1, 2013

Poverty Session I


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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