Landfill Harmonic (Trailer)
Cateura, Paraguay is a town essentially built on top of a landfill. When orchestra director Szaran and music teacher Favio set up a music program for the kids of Cateura, they soon have more students than they have instruments…Today, there’s an entire orchestra of assembled instruments, now called The Recycled Orchestra…
The Line: Poverty In America – It’s Not What You Think (Film)
Some of you may be like me who has recently had hours cut at your job or you may be wrestling with unemployment. For millions of us, the poverty line is always above our heads…The Line is a groundbreaking forty-minute documentary uncovering the emerging and entrenched faces of poverty in our country…
Congregational Supported Agriculture (The Other CSA)
Traditionally, churches or faith congregations reach out and serve those around them, meeting spiritual needs, of course, but also dealing with physical needs in the community. Food is a great way to fulfill both needs…
Salvaging America: Recycled Houses for the Working Poor
I got really excited to discover Dan Phillips of Phoenix Commotion and his groundbreaking approach to building ‘recycled’ houses from salvaged materials through one-on-one mentoring. Could Dan’s vision reshape the financial, ecological and architectural landscape of America?…
Jenny & Tyler: Faint Not (Video)
Out of this struggle to continually choose sacrificial love we are reminded that it is not idealism or politically-inspired activism but humble submission to the Holy Spirit through whom we can say, like the ancient Hebrew psalmist-king David, “o my soul, faint not, no faint not | o my soul, keep up, up in love”…
Claudio Oliver: Turning Grease Into Gospel (video)
Let Claudio inspire you as well -as you conspire ways to “do small things with great love” in your neighborhood that model and embody GOD’s redemption and reconciliation…
Community Gardens: Churches Find Their Local Mission
Rising to meet the needs of local food banks, their own members and as a means of outreach to their communities- many congregations are taking the idea of local, sustainably raised food and cultivating the land as a means to enact the Gospel and the Kingdom love of Jesus….
Empire vs. Love
In the 4th Century A.D. the Roman emperor Julian was concerned about the spread of Christianity in his empire…He wrote: “Nothing has contributed to the progress of the superstition of these Christians as their charity to strangers. The impious Galileans provide not only for their own poor, but for ours as well.”
Following Jesus: Befriending The Poor
As I have walked for the past eighteen years alongside thousands of men and women who have become homeless…and as I have visited impoverished communities throughout the world, I have discovered…We actually can…find sustainable, manageable ways to make a difference in the lives of the poor…
Ron Davidson: Gleaning For The World
After thirty years of being in ministry as a pastor and police chaplain GOD awakened Ron Davidson to an ancient biblical custom that would change the course of his life. The custom was gleaning and it is more relevant today than ever before…
