Tuesday 9 November 2010

Radical giving

In Forgotten God Francis Chan writes


A few months ago I was speaking at a summer camp, and I was speaking to one of the organisations there that sponsors children. This volunteer told me about a sixteen-year-old girl there at the camp who sponsors fourteen children, on her own. I was astonished by this. Fourteen children (at about thirty dollars a month for each child) is a lot of money for a high school student to come up with. I talked to this girl and asked her how she did it. She told me that se works year-round and she works three jobs in the summertime to pay for the child support. While other teenagers are saving for a car, she is saving lives! Instead of spending her hard-earned money on herself and her future, she gives it to these fourteen children because she believes God loves them just as much as He loves her.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Amazing and humbling story Paul.