Last Fri­day, our team of vil­lagers (Noah, Haviy­lah, Joy, Amy and Noah) who have been in Nakuru, Kenya for the past 6 weeks finally came back home. They’ve been out there vis­it­ing and min­is­ter­ing to the Lake­view Vil­lage Church, which you can read more about on their blogs.

I’ve been think­ing about what it means to min­is­ter to the poor, and what true help looks like.

It seems like phil­an­thropy is the new fad lately. Every­where you look someone’s rais­ing money for the poor, vis­it­ing third world coun­tries, etc. Famous peo­ple use their social clout to help sup­port charities.