Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Because the time is NOW...

Psalm 82:3-4 says this...
Defend the weak and fatherless;
maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed;
rescue the weak and needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

So who are they? Where do they live? What does maintaining their rights look like and how do we rescue people in need? In a world where 26,575 children die each day of largely preventable causes related to their poverty, defending them can seem so overwhelming that we cannot even fathom where to start. How can we possibly rescue mothers in developing countries that must choose between watching their children die from lack of water or watching them die from disease born from the only water available to them. There are 15 million orphans today as a result of AIDS; 2 million people will die this year and 2.5 million more will be newly infected. Deliver them from the hand of the wicked? It's overwhelming....

PROJECT 82 - KENYA invites you to join us as we seek to know and love the faces behind these statistics in one area of the world.... Kenya. Our mission is simple. It is to obey what God has commanded of us in Psalm 82 and throughout the scriptures. Statistics can be overwhelming and it's easy to have an emotional reaction to a statistic one day and forget all about it the next. It is much more difficult to take a statistic and make it become real to you..... but we invite you to do just that. Make it personal! Build a relationship with one orphan.... one widow....... one family........ one community in Kenya with PROJECT 82.