Fifty-two hours is not that much time to most people. If you think about it, it comes down to two full days and four hours. What might happen if you could take one hour of your week, each week for a year?

You may be wondering what you can get back from a fifty-two hour commitment. Here is what I have gotten from mine.

• I have about thirty new friends to check in with each week.
• I laugh a little more.
• My faith makes more sense.
• I have a higher purpose than before.
• I have another network of support and accountability.
• I make a difference.

Fifty Two Hours – Could you make that commitment? Would you dare to try it?

[Note from Hugh: Chad is refering to the hour a week he spends with us in Moore Square, where he passes out boots and shoes to folks who need them.]

Just what is poverty?

I have heard all sorts of answers to this, and many of them describe poverty (no money, no power, no choice) but it is hard to say exactly what poverty is, and why, for example, I can never be poor, regardless of how little money I have.

Watch this short video. The author has an answer that I completely agree with. If this is true (and I believe it is), then it further underscores just how important what I do out here really is.

HT to Larry James