Today Our Saviour’s hosted Journey to Jamaa. A program produced by World Vision. We are very excited because Our Saviour’s is actually the first church to host this brand new program!

Taking place during the Sunday worship service, Journey to Jamaa brings home the reality that worship is something you do with your whole being—heart, mind, hands, and feet. Journey to Jamaa allows your congregation to see poverty through the eyes of two Ugandan orphans, experiencing their journey from tragedy to hope. Each participant is invited to learn more about poverty by personally experiencing the story of one character in the narrative parable, told through film. You’ll learn about the needs of children around the globe and how World Vision is helping children, families, and communities experience life in all its fullness. Grow closer as a church family—on your Journey to Jamaa.

- Journey to Jamaa.org

The video is very powerful and shows the types of conditions these children live with… every day of their lives. It shows heartbreak, struggle, frustration, joy, love, kindness, compassion and understanding. It will bring tears to your eyes and will call you to action!

You can make a difference!!!

By sponsoring a child through World Vision you can enable them to experience the fullness of life that God offers.

More than 1 million children live on less than $1 each day! These children and their families are all too familiar with poverty. By sponsoring a child you can provide them with the basics such as food, clean water and love. By writing to them and getting to know them you will be helping them and encouraging them in so many more ways than just food and water.

If you decide to sponsor a child, let me know what his or her name is and send a picture or blog about them yourself!

[Images by: World Vision]

I had the opportunity this weekend to drive up to Moorhead, MN to visit my sister Margot. We had a big family graduation party for her and all that. We got to see her new apartment and just hang out together for awhile. Good times were had by all. She decided that she wanted to get back into blogging. I told her she’d have to talk to somebody that knows more about those crazy interwebs than I about that… blogging… I’m not familiar with the term.

But… we persisted… and I started a blog for her. We got super creative with the URL and went with www.MargotBrenna.com. As you can see, it’s rockin the Standard Theme (affiliate link)! Side note… the ST is a fantastic premium theme for wordpress. Some have said

It’s the best coded wordpress theme ever

- 8 Bit

She’s still finding her niche in the blogging world… so check out her site and send her some comment love!

Wow! This is an interesting idea. Apparently there is a contest happening right now asking for a redesign of all U.S. currency. This submission that I’m highlighting on this post is by a graphic design studio named Dowling Ducan.

With offices in both the UK and the US, graphic design studio Dowling Duncan offers a collective experience of over 30 years in the industry. Our aim is to deliver appropriate and engaging work, solving problems with intelligent ideas whilst exploring the possibilities of creativity and craft.

-Dowling Ducan

You can vote for the winner of the contest here.

Here is their submission

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