Live58 Challenge

This video was made about 4 weeks ago, right after I got back from my Haiti trip with Compassion International. Compassion is involved with Live58, a coalition of nonprofit organizations dedicated to ending poverty by practicing a "True Fast." True fasting, as described in Isaiah 58, is characterized by loosing the bonds of wickedness, undoing heavy burdens, letting the oppressed go free, breaking every yoke, sharing your bread with the hungry, bringing the poor cast-out ones into your home and covering the naked. 

More than anything it is a call to love and have compassion on one another. This passage, the Live58 ministry, and my trip to Haiti raised some questions about how we respond to pain and poverty.

Stories: Here's Your New Life

Back in January, I talked about my nephew Isaiah and his diagnosis with Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. This is a short story I created for a journalism assignment that gives you a glimpse into everything that happened.

I have to give very big credit to my sister-in-law, Heather, for being such a huge part of this process and sharing her story with me so freely. I hope that, in 2 minutes and 44 seconds, you can get just a small impression of her incredible faith and strength. I can't wait to share more of the story with you all.

Here's Your New Life

I apologize, I am not able to embed the slideshow at this time.

Further reading on Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome:

• The Foundation for Children with Atypical HUS
• Hemolyticuremicsyndrome-hus.com
• The Atypical HUS Website