Everyone needs a hero in life. Mine happens to be Rich Stearns, president and lay person of one of the largest non-profit Christian humanitarian organizations in the world. His organization is tried and true; surviving economic downturns and a consortium of political and spiritual obstacles, while working tirelessly in the field (over twenty years) to help transform conditions of the poor, eradicate disease for the sickest of the sick and address injustices in the world that seem all to unfair. All this and more…while painstakingly chipping away at the inequality of scales that exist in countries, and watching the gap between the wealthy and poor within nations widen: as the rich become richer and poor become desperately poorer.
Is this an info commercial about World Vision? No. But it does demonstrate the power of God’s transforming love and healing when people are moved to act. We see the undeniable effects of how one person among many can transform the world...and somehow, when we read about these stories, it makes us feel really good inside.
Why? Because it exposes the soul work of caring, the raw truth about what’s really happening out there in the world, and how we can all play a part in its healing if we choose to...