Ethiopia and my neighborhood

I returned a few weeks ago from Ethiopia. The trip was AMAZING! I have been blogging about it here. While in Ethiopia I began to pray about how I could combined helping Ethiopia and ministering to my neighborhood kids. Sunday, Jan. 24th I had all my neighbor kids over after church. We had a nice lunch and I showed them all of my pictures and videos. It was fun to show them Ethiopia and challenge them to think outside of themselves. Here in America they are considered poor and at-risk youth. But they have SO much more than the kids in Ethiopia, more material things and more opportunities for education and jobs. It is hard to reconcile in my mind that they are considered poor when they live better than 80%+ of the world. Our standards in America are SO high! I challenged them to think about what God wants from us. How he wants us to help those in need. I am praying about and starting to plan some fundraisers for the spring and summer. I hope to put the neighbor kids to work to help me raise money for Ethiopia. They were excited about a chance to help. I want to keep that excitement alive.