58: Global Impact Tour

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Updated 5/1/12

Thank you! Scott
Thank you for your continued commitment and prayers as part of Live58. With each action … Read More »

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Thank you!

Thank you for your continued commitment and prayers as part of Live58. With each action you take - praying, sharing the news, giving to support projects - you create new possibilities and you encourage us all. Jesus said, "Let your light shine" for a reason. Live58 promises to honor that reason - every good thing we see happening through this work we offer to God as an act of worship. To Him be the glory!

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Over $26,000 Raised! Scott
Congratulations to all of you! We did it! We raised over $26,000 to help plant … Read More »

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Over $26,000 Raised!

Congratulations to all of you! We did it! We raised over $26,000 to help plant trees and prevent soil erosion in the Dominican Republic! It's been wonderful to see what God has done through all of you and your patient, consistent giving, heartfelt prayers, and sacrificial fasts. We are so grateful for not only the physical and spiritual needs you are helping to meet in the Dominican Republic, but also for the much needed spiritual revival you are helping to bring to your churches and communities by embracing God's heart for the poor.

2 weeks ago

Progress

Includes Matched $6,397

This Month $12,794

This Year $96,913

People Fasting 687

People Praying 22

People Giving 107

Featured Country & Issue

Rwanda

11,689,696 estimated population

60% living in poverty

77% with no access to financial services

Lack of Financial Opportunity

Rwanda, the most densely populated country in Africa, still contends with the social and economic scars of the deadly genocide that raged within its borders in the mid-1990s. The genocide has combined with the HIV/AIDS pandemic to create a crisis of orphaned Rwandan children and widowed women. With 60 percent of Rwanda’s population living below the poverty line and only 23 percent of the adult population having access to financial services, residents often find their potential checked by a lack of capital.

In response, some seek to save their own funds to begin a small enterprise but must resort to hiding their money at home, where it remains vulnerable to theft or deterioration. Others may attempt to borrow a small sum but find their options limited to loan sharks whose exorbitant interest rates perpetuate the cycle of poverty. Their efforts thwarted, many simply get by, eking out a meager living or subsisting on handouts from others. But more than just a way to earn money, work is a blessing designed by God. Scriptures from the Old Testament to the New identify work as God’s plan for our provision, and when a capable individual lacks the opportunity to work, this departure from God’s plan creates dependence, shame, and despair, distorting that person's view of themself and others.

Living 58:

Why does God allow so many of his children to be poor?

By C.H. Spurgeon

Why does God allow so many of his children to be poor? He could make them all rich if he pleased; he could lay bags of gold at their doors; he could send them a large annual income; or he could scatter round their houses abundance of provisions, as once he made the quails lie in heaps round the camp of Israel and rained bread out of heaven to feed them. There is no necessity that they should be poor, except that he sees it to be best. "The cattle upon a thousand hills are his" - he could supply them; he could make the richest, the greatest, and the mightiest bring all their power and riches to the feet of his children, for the hearts of all men are in his control. Read More »

Featured Project

HOPE International

Helping the Poor Start New Businesses

Goal:	$50,000
Where:	Rwanda
Partner	HOPE International
About	Venture capitalists fund new enterprises for profit. Adventure capitalists fund new businesses, but the returns they seek are social, not financial. Adventure capitalists invest in high-potential people in underserved … Read More » × Helping the Poor Start New Businesses Venture capitalists fund new enterprises for profit. Adventure capitalists fund new businesses, but the returns they seek are social, not financial. Adventure capitalists invest in high-potential people in underserved countries like Rwanda. Though most beneficiaries of these investments haven't had prior access to capital, business training, or savings services, their business ideas can free their families from poverty and make them catalysts for change in their own communities. As little as $100 can provide a first loan to a client. A new business can be fully funded with capital, counsel and training for only $500. This month we have set a goal to raise $50,000 to create 100 new businesses in Rwanda which would provide access to financial services and basic business training which will be used to spur economic development. It doesn't stop there. HOPE's clients will experience the love of Jesus Christ in word and deed as they enter into relationships with HOPE International's staff members who are committed to sharing the Gospel.

58: Global Fast

WHAT

WHY

What we save by skipping a meal or two can help provide a loan in Rwanda to start a business.

I'm In

687 fasters

...but I'll choose my own fast

Prayer Wall & Map Share Your Request

Pray for continued reconciliation in Rwanda, where the International Criminal Tribunal is expected to wrap up trials of those accused in the 1994 genocide by the end of 2014. Pray especially that the Church would be a beacon of hope and restoration throughout the process.