Hope Fellowship Community Church

This Christmas we are trying something different. If you are interested, check out adventconspiracy.org and see for yourself. The basics of it is that you don't spend as much on useless gifts at Christmas and you give the money you would have spent to a worthy cause like building wells so people can have fresh water. Our family has decided to make all of our gifts and to support an organization called horizon international.

Consumerism hits almost every part of our lives. If it isn't new, it isn't good. If it's not the latest thing, it is ancient history. I read an illustration about this idea and how even when we go on missions trips, we try to ingrain that into the "poor" culture to whom we are ministering. Check it out here.

I was talking to my daughters on Thanksgiving evening about how much food we had consumed that day. I told them that we probably ate more in that one day than some people in the world eat in a month. Did you ever hear, "You'd better eat that, there are children starving all over the world." Maybe instead of stuffing our faces and trying to get the biggest and best of everything, we should do something to help some of these starving children. It's time for change.