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so joe told me about this trip he is thinking about going on this summer with this organization:
http://thestreetchildproject.org/index.php
which is so cool- they take in homeless street children and give them a home, food, education, and they educate them with the arts so that they will become uplifting and awesome members of society that will impact others in a positive way which is SO COOL (the best part- the college trip's ministry is music based)
i am so impressed that the organization and the people behind it saw the need of these children and are not only filling that but that they are trying to give them opportunities to grow as beautiful children of God and that they are teaching them to create instead of destroy, and about the beauty of this world. i think so often that just gets lost when we get so consumed with other things that we view as more basic needs.

that's what i want to do and who i want to be- a person that sees need and asks "how do we fill this need, and then how do we keep this going? how can this be restored to what God intended it to be?"

people ask me why i am so okay with being away from home, why i want to get off this continent and do something with my life, but when you consider the alternatives, why would i settle for anything less?