CHARITY	FOR	AMOUNT	TOTAL DONATION
Carolina for Kibera	• 12 room clinic and land deeds • Medicine for 5000 people for 6 months in Nairobi Kenya	• $22,500 • $7,500	$30,000
Comic Relief	• Running street children’s hospital in India for a year … Feeding 10 street children in Calcutta 3 meals daily for 1 year • Schooling for 100 street children in Tanzania • Education for 200 students in Ethiopia	• $11,050 • $3,000 • $2,500 • $400	$16,950
CARE USA	• Building of 6 wells in S.E Asia, Latin America & Africa • Helping 100 widows to develop income generating activities in Afghanistan • Sending 145 girls to school for one year in Afghanistan • Equipping 10 classrooms in Afghanistan • Training 10 teachers in Afghanistan	• $10,200 • $5,400 • $5,000 • $480 • $400	$21,480
DORCAS	• Total running costs of orphanage in South Africa • Improving the lives of 10 elderly people in Eastern Europe	• $16,500 • $3,500	$20,000
Engineers Without Borders - Canada	• To purchase and implement a Multi-Function Platform in Ghana • Christy Yaa: scholarships • Nana Yaa: scholarships	• $15,000 • $1,000 • $1,000	$17,000
Help the Aged	• Mobile Medical Unit (MMU) vehicle providing medical treatments	• $15,000	$15,000
Film Aid	• Entertainment & escapism for refugees	• $9,500	$9,500
War Child	• 70 former child soldiers to receive schooling & psychosocial support • 7 young people in Sierra Leone to receive job training • Education, shelter & food for orphans in Ethiopia	• $3,500 • $1,500 • $500	$5,500
Heifer International	• 1 heifer, 2 goats, 1 buffalo • 2 sheep, 4 goats, 2 llamas and 1 heifer • A pig • Chicks • Ducks	• $1,000 • $1,500 • $120 • $20 • $20 • $20	$2680
ITDG	• Scheme which would allow 300 families to remove smoke from their homes • 10 smoke hoods • 5 bicycle ambulances • Nuts & bolts to secure houses of monsoon victims • Sudanese irrigation	• $1,925 • $250 • $1,300 • $500 • $1025	$5000
Action Aid	• To aid and implement programs in Khlaipathar village, Orissa, India to encourage families to be able to stay together • 5000lbs potato seeds for planting vegetable gardens	• $5000 • $160	$5160
	TOTAL		$148,270

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-ideating in the north woods.

at my sister's play.

In Traverse City until Tuesday.

enroute to Traverse City

learning about the Muslim culture.

If and when the automakers fail it will be another catastrophic blow
to the already extremely week Michigan economy. Things are horrible
now, yet after the fall of the automakers it will surely be twice as
bad. The auto unions are finally getting what they asked for and it's
going to be a tough lesson for the entire state, region, and nation.

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Predicting the future...by building it.

Espresso + Iron and Wine

working on a Service Committee proposal for Holland Young Professionals. behyp.org

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General Growth Properties, the owner of Rivertown Crossings and many other malls across America, is heading toward bankruptcy.

If the Rivertown mall complex meets its demise the town of Grandville would lose it's epicenter of life. Grandville has built its property prices, culture, and way of life on one big mall. The failure of which could mean the end to a way of life.

Washington Post Article

A primary command from God is that we are to love and worship Him first and foremost. This is often misunderstood as forbidding us from bowing down to statues and praying to false gods. To which we can easily say "I've never done that, and am not planning on it anytime soon." We move on to other commandments, thinking this one doesn't pertain to us.

In reality it is warning us from putting anything in our lives at a higher elevation than God. This is something we do all the time. In modern day life we rarely worship by bowing down to something. We worship, instead, by devoting time, money, and thoughts toward something. Using this more appropriate modern day measure. What do we Worship?

Look at your checkbook. Make a time log of how you spend your day. Think about how often you pay bills. These are the things you are worshiping. Put some thought into your life priorities, what you want to be worshiping, and devote your time, energy, and thought accordingly.

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YouTube - Did You Know? Is an informative visual presentation of why the integral of global change is exponential and you need to get out there and start learning new skills, understanding other cultures, and become a force for positive change. Because change is coming... fast.

From Not For Sale Campaign:
"The major obstacle that we face in the fight against modern day slavery is that the crime is hidden. Individuals that work in the field know that slavery is not part of the current collective consciousness. Initially, it shocks the general public to learn that slavery still exists and is wide spread. It is even more shocking for them to realize that it may exist in their own backyards.

We need to shift to a paradigm that recognizes the possibility of slavery in order to be able to identify it. When the paradigm shifts, a new wave of activists will respond in creative ways. That being the case, the pioneer generation of activists against human trafficking must re-evaluate how we communicate the issue to our networks.

Communication with young people brings to light that the new abolitionists can be very sophisticated. Youths are using their own expertise in creative ways to raise awareness and fight slavery, which in turn inspires their peers to do the same. Their initiatives tend to be organic to their peers’ passion, skills, and purpose in life.

For example, Pattie, an artist who lives in Atlanta, GA, recently hosted a house party to inform her friends about modern-day slavery. She showed a movie, served wine and cheese, produced a painting for the party, and delivered a power point presentation featuring her city’s Modern-day slavery statistics. She even had the guests paint their hands on her wall, declaring that they are now involved, identifying with those whose identities have been stolen.

‘Orange’ awareness events, soccer tournaments, class presentations, mapping slavery projects, benefit concerts, video productions, are among the activities that colleges, high schools, companies, churches, artists, and individuals organize to shift the paradigm that slavery does not exist toward a paradigm of awareness.

We cannot act solo if we want to make an impact; to be part of a network of activists generates social power. The pioneer generation needs to enable people’s natural connection toward collaboration, exchanging ideas, learning from one another, and learning to trust one another in new and different ways.

The greatest of challenges demand the boldest and most creative initiatives. Ending slavery in our lifetime depends on open source activism. We cannot control it, only enable it. Our own inputs and energies transform the path of the campaign. We can’t predict the path that we are going to follow, but because modern-day slavery is touching the deepest places of conscience, we are uniting to end it." more at Not For Sale Campaign

The world's greatest need & your greatest strengths

We're launching a new business venture within the neediest part of the world with the aim of bulstering the area through employment, discipleship, and economic development. But we can't do it alone. We're looking for talented individuals to join our team as Management, Advisors, and Investors.

If you're passionate about world missions, have some business skills, and a willingness to learn and laugh in a new culture, you're just who we're looking for. Ideal candidates have entrepreneurial experience, mission work experience, have lived or worked abroad, and have a true love for the people of the world.


We're now working toward a 2014 launch by researching, planning, and recruiting new team members. If you or someone you know may be interested please send them my way.

Business as Missions is a global mission movement that uses business to glorify God in cross-cultural ways. We want to build an SME (small to medium size enterprise) within the 10/40 window. Successfully employing, witnessing to, and doing life with 100+ local employees by 2020. Blessing employees, familys and communities through good business.


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- Apply to become a team member.

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