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What Is Poverty Tourism Versus Pilgrimage?

 

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Today’s post will be different and I speak in Jesus’s name about what I am going to write about. I search for a lot of content written within several top 50 Christian blogs. Recently, I came across an article speaking about poverty tourism and foreign lands. But before I begin this article, I have a question for you. Do you consider yourself to be above the poverty line or do you know somebody that maybe close to poverty?

Poverty Tourism

In poverty tourism, as reporter Jamal Osman says, “People’s lives are on display, providing ample opportunities for tourists to grab a few photos and go.” You have traveled to a foreign land, such as Kenya,  what thoughts might be going through your mind as you look and you see these people with  so little. You decide to stop and interact asking a few questions. After learning so much from their conversations. What can I do to help these people?

It would be those that interact with these folks and not see a solution to their long-term problems. In reality, it would be a waste of time for those who sought as a photo opportunity and not see what is below the level. I truly feel sorry for the those individuals. The Westerners may come into a slum or village thinking, “I know exactly what’s needed to help you.” At an unconscious level, it may even be that by seeking to help the poor, there is a sense of one feeling good and self-justification compared to those who do nothing.

I live in a small coastal community within the San Francisco Bay Area. My wife and I travel a few times a week to the local grocery store. Before entry into the parking we both saw a homeless family with shopping carts holding all their belongings and card board roofs to shield them from the rains. Our hearts go out to them, and quietly began to pray for that one day their lives would change.

Not only do the Westerners stare as they go to the  small villages but they dehumanize them, and think that these people cannot think for themselves, and in fact these people are highly capable and highly resourceful. And yet there is a different way of thinking of a pilgrimage and having compassion for those human beings and when you desire to touch and feel with an open mind and heart that is pilgrimage.

Pilgrimage leads to change. We do not visit the poor, we visit with the poor.Visiting with the poor is an expression and wholeness of God’s love for his people. Pilgrimage reminds us all that they are part of God’s kingdom.

#Poverty  #Povertytourism  #Kenya  #Russfwood

 

 

 

 

 

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Scholar says she’s unlocked the secrets of the pyramid texts

Morrow explains her research, he and presents a new translation of the full text, and her latest book, the he Dawning Moon of the Mind: Unlocking the Pyramid Texts.
These are not magic spells at all, “these are poetic versus constructed just like poetry today, sophisticated and filled with word play and puns.” Please read more…

#Egypt #Pyramid  #Pyramid Text  # Susan Morrow  #Philosophy #Russfwood

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Avi Lipkin: The Mystery of ISIS

Terror has gripped the Middle East, Europe and now America as we acknowledge the existence of a new enemy—ISIS, or as our President calls them, ISIL. They seemingly came out out of nowhere, committing atrocities that boggle the imagination. Who are they and where did they come from? Where do they fit into Bible prophecy? Will they invade Israel in the future? Gary and Israeli insider Avi Lipkin explore the roots of this end-time Islamic terror brigade in a way few people really understand. Will America continue down the path of appeasement and political correctness? Or will America submit and become as Avi has predicted, “A Muslim nation?”

#Russfwood #ProphecyWatchers #AviLipkin #GaryStearman

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When People Let You Down

Was any Bible character let down by more people than Joseph? (See Genesis 37-40) Think of the disappointments he experienced in the first thirty years of his life. He was let down by his family. His mother had died when he was very young. Read more…

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Beyond the Shemitah | Jonathan Cahn

Rabbi Jonathan Cahn shares what’s next on God’s prophetic calendar concerning America, Israel and the world. See his latest interview to find out what is beyond the Harbinger and the Shemitah!

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The Shinar Directive

“Today the path to total dictatorship and the US can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by Congress, the president, or the people. Outwardly we have a constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government- a bureaucratic elite. We have a well organized political action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one party state…

 

The important point to remember about this group is not its ideology, but it’s organization. It is a dynamic, aggressive, elite corps, forcing its way through every opening, to make a breach for a collectivist one- party state. It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our government without suspecting that change is underway…

 

If I seem to be an extremist, the reason is that this revolutionary clique cannot be understood, unless we accept the fact that they are extremists. It is difficult for people governed by reasonableness and morality to imagine the existence of a movement which ignores reasonableness and boasts of its determination to destroy; which ignores morality, and boasts of its cleverness and outwitting its opponents by abandoning all scruples. This ruthless power seeking elite is a disease of our century…

 

This group… Is answerable neither to the president, the Congress, nor the courts. It is practically your removable.”

Sen. William Jenner, 1954

 

The Shinar Directive Preparing The Way For The Son Of Perdition author Dr. Michael Lake   Pages 13-14

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Matthew 6: 19 – 24 Wealth

Wealth

 

Matthew 6: 19 – 24. Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22. The lamp of the body is the eye. If, therefore, your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 24. No one can serve 2 masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

 

Do not lay up, but lay up may be rephrased as do not give priority to this, but give priority to that. This passage does not mean that it is sinful to have such assets as insurance, retirement plans, and savings accounts. After all, parents are to save for the children.

Mammon refers to wealth, money, or property. No one can serve two masters, because a time will come when they make opposing demands. Jesus advised us to invest in our future with him by giving of ourselves; Mammon encourage us to collect material objects for our present enjoyment.

#Matthew6:19-24 #Mammon #Russfwood #Russandnancywood