Saving Creativity

So here’s the update, sorry it’s been so long between them.  I was sent to Uganda by theMet to tell some stories, acquire great footage, and generally be what I hoped to be…creative.  What happened today will forever change who I am and how I view my life in America.  We went to Pastor Henry’s church in Njeru, Uganda, and while we have been recording some great testimonies to what theMet has perviously done here in Jinja, Uganda, have struggled this trip to find that story that rips your heart out and makes mashed potatoes of it.  Well we found it today.  God wrecked me when I was introduced to this young man…

Meet Samuel, he doesn’t know how old he is, does odds and ends to make maybe 100 schillings a day, and oh yeah….and most of the time the people he does the tasks for don’t pay him, kinda like leaving a tract at a restaurant table instead of a tip.  He eats maybe once a day, and goes to sleep crying at night because all he can think about is how hard it will be tomorrow to survive.  To top it all off: his dad died before he moved to Njeru and his mom died right after he moved there.  So now that we’ve established that he is in a situation that seems impossible…here is where we all come in:

It takes $50 a TERM to send Samuel to school.  For that $50 per term (3 terms a year) they get: uniforms, books, two solid meals a day and an honest to God education so he can make something of himself.  What he needs is our help.  I want to support this boy so that when he turns into a man, he can support his family.  So that his children will see hope and want to make something of themselves.  I want Samuel to be able to go to school for the next 5 years.  This is really where we all come in.  For every person that donates $50 to sending Samuel to school..I am going to send you a note card with specific things to pray for him and…a rock.  The prayer card is to remind you every day what to pray for, and the rock is to remind you that you have it so easy in America and that Samuel is back in Uganda struggling to just survive.  That the hardest thing you have to decide is what you want on your salad or what coke to drink, and that Samuel has to fight every…single…day to just eat.

For those of you who struggle with math, here is the break down: 3 terms a year X 5 years…that’s $750 to change a child’s present and future.  We can’t change his past, but we sure as hell need to change his future.  So I need 15 people to give Samuel a life, give him a chance at a future.  We are cutting a video together and each person who gives money will be given a link to hear Samuel’s story.  Once we launch it at theMet, I will post it for everyone else here.

So here’s my plea to you:  give to something bigger than yourself.  Go without your coffee for a couple of weeks (that would be you… you vente triple machiatto, no whip, soy milk drinkers you..), or maybe go to Supercuts instead of snooty salon (and when people ask you why you got your hair cut there, tell them Samuel’s story), or maybe don’t go out to eat every night and send that money.  God really challenged me to do something about Samuel, so are you human enough to care more than saving your creature comforts?  I know I am….  Over the next few weeks I am going to post a more stories of what God is doing in the lives of the people in Uganda, get ready for inspiration and heart wrenching stories.  God is bigger than America, and I hope through these stories, that God will give all of us a little insight into His heart for others around the world.

If you want to participate post a comment below and I will email you with the details.  I collect the money and once we have an entire year paid for, I will send it over to help Samuel out.

Thanks for taking the time to read and to help a young man out.  Your reward will be visible through a changed life…. Samuels!

For all of you over achievers in the world here are a few links to different organizations that will help you get a better understanding of the HOPE that is being spread around the world, and how you can be a part of something that is bigger than our little…American…worlds…

www.mochaclub.org

www.invisiblechildren.com

www.worldvision.com