The purpose of the Poverty Challenge was to give me an
experience that more closely emulates the people I serve so that I can better
understand their lives and, therefore, bring ministry and teaching that more
directly meets their needs.
One of the most important things I learned from this
experience is how difficult it is to simulate a poverty situation without going
to extremes. I lived on $3.10...
Monday, March 13, 2017
Friday, March 10, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 10
Day 10 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began with feeding myself on the Word of God with a
continued study from Women of the Bible, this week about the mothers of Moses. My devotion time
was shorted by the need to prepare for ministry teaching today.
Today’s program began by leaving the
house at 8:00 and returning at 6:00 following a full day of ministry-teaching
at Faith Revival Center in Malindi....
Thursday, March 9, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 9
Day 9 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began with feeding myself on the Word of God with a
continued study from Women of the Bible, this week about the mothers of Moses and God’s promise
to be with us regardless of our circumstances. Today’s lesson has me pondering
the point of life. If our circumstances are irrelevant to who God is and his
faithfulness to us, what is the purpose of life itself. I...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 8
Day 8 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began with feeding myself on the Word of God with a
continued study from Women of the Bible. I was challenged to imagine what it would have been like
to be the mother of Moses and the choices I’d make in her place. As I
experience this $3.10 Poverty Challenge trying to imagine myself in the place
of the poor, I am reminded of how difficult it really is to put...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 7
Day 7 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began with feeding myself on the Word of God with a
continued study from Women of the Bible, this week about the mothers of Moses.
Given yesterday’s events, I headed
back to the police to receive my letter verifying that indeed I had lost
certain properties including my alien card, which verifies my right to be in
the country. After receiving that letter I...
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 6 The Real Challenge
Day 6 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge was a beautiful day loving on kids with Sensible Shoes,
but it wasn’t without its challenges.
As all the tiny children posed for a
group photo, a local child unknown to the pastor or teachers helped himself to
my wallet containing a LOT of money and all my important cards. Discouraged
doesn’t quite describe how I was feeling, and I have yet to sleep from that
event that occurred 12 hours ago, but I want to share more specifically what
followed.
Once...
Monday, March 6, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 6
Day 6 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began with feeding myself on the Word of God with a
continued study from Women of the Bible, this week about the mothers of Moses.
Today was an exciting day of Sensible
Shoes ministry at Jesus Gathering Centre in Malindi with Pr Unda. So many
people have given to prepare us for this ministry and the day finally arrived that
I could love on these kids with their...
Sunday, March 5, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 5
Day 5 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began in a rush. I’ve not slept well the last three
nights because of cough and finally enjoyed a full 2.5 hours that led up to
7:30 in the morning, just 30 minutes before I had to leave for the prison.
Once again I found that worship with these inmates was
beyond compare. Do you worship the Lord as though he is your only hope? Though
I do have some...
Saturday, March 4, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 4
Day 4 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began by reviewing and refining my sermon for the inmates
and staff at Malindi Prison. The message is entitled Choose Your Tree as we
reflect on the opportunity Adam and Eve had to choose the tree of life
(obedience) or the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (sin), and that
Joseph had in choosing his tree of life (obedience by avoiding Potiphar’s wife)
or...
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 3
Day 3 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began once again by feeding myself on the Word of God
with a continued study from Women of the Bible about Potiphar’s wife.
The challenge posed by the authors today was to confess the tendency to become
emotionally or physically involved in an off-limits relationship. I confess the
temptations are real and give thanks for the protection God has given me as
well...
Thursday, March 2, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 2
Day 2 of the $3.10
Poverty Challenge began once again by feeding myself on the Word of God
with a continued study from Women
of the Bible about Potiphar’s Wife. Yesterday’s revelation, that every
choice to sin or not to sin is reminiscent of that first Garden choice,
continues to play through my mind. Today, though, I’m reminded that the
immediate circumstance in which we find ourselves making a...
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
$3.10 Poverty Challenge: Day 1
Day 1 of the $3.10 Poverty Challenge. This morning I fed myself with the Word about Potiphar’s
wife. I noticed a parallel between Joseph’s temptation to eat from the tree of life
(resist Potiphar’s wife) or to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil (give into her temptations). I wondered how my response to sin would
differ if I viewed my temptations in light of the two trees.
At...
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