In recent months I've been praying about how to do life differently. How to start really reaching out and loving others. Not in a really organized way, but just in practical, everyday ways so that I'm really living out what I believe and not just filling my head and heart with knowledge of my faith. I feel like God's calling me to start really "getting my hands dirty" in terms of loving people in tangible ways. And not just loving the people in my life who are easy to love, or who's circles I move in, but loving people I don't necessarily think I have much in common with, or even those I've never met.
A few weeks ago, my friend Christine mentioned that she and some of her friends from our church were starting an apartment ministry. Basically, their heart is to connect with people who are in a living situation that is often very disconnecting. If you think about it, who normally lives in apartments? Single people, newly divorced people, single moms, low income families... all people who are likely sharing a common thread of loneliness and need, but living pretty isolated from one another. It sounded exactly like the kind of opportunity I was praying for! So, without much thought, I asked if I could join them. They said yes.
So, here I am, just about a month out from moving into the same apartment building as Christine and a few others, not having any clue what I'm doing, but excited to see what God will bring from this. This is definitely outside my comfort zone as an introvert, but already I can see God's hand in it.
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James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world
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- April
- I'm a single mom to one sweet little boy, and aspiring nurse and adoptive mama! My heart and passion is for HIV+/AIDS orphans and children in general. I'm on a journey to find the place where my passions and talents collide in a way that will bring glory to my God.
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"This is not about charity in the end, is it? It's about justice. The good news yet to come. I just want to repeat that: This is not about charity, it's about justice. And that's too bad. Because we're good at charity. American's, Irish people, are good at charity. We like to give, and we give a lot, even those who can't afford it. But justice is a higher standard. Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice; it makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties; it doubts our concern, and it quetions our committment. Six and a half thousand Africans are still dying every day of preventable, treatable disease, for lack of drugs we can buy at any drug store. This is not about charity. This is about Justice and Equality" -Bono
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Hey April. I love the idea you are joining your friends in. I hope to hear more about it here on your blog! As a single person, I can testify to lonely people living in apartment complexes yet often feeling disconnected. I have a roommate, but our relationship typically doesn't go much beyond passing each other in the hall.
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