Social Justice & Compassion

Relating to marginalized communities

A great post from Mark Petersen: So often when we relate to marginalized communities, our Messiah-complex attitude is that we are helping these poor people out.  We are the givers, they are the

A night at Sanctuary

I’m indebted to Greg Paul and Sanctuary Ministries. They let a group of us from Richview come last night and learn from them. I’ll be writing about some of what we

Learning from Compassion and churches

I visited three churches in Honduras last week. The first church had a building with a second floor for kids that had been brought in off the street. We went into a room

Reservations revisited

Last Saturday night we sat by the pool in a nice hotel in an impoverished country. Compassion Canada had paid our costs to be there. We had just been on a plane full