I have an opportunity for you.  It may shake you up a bit, and it may be completely inside your comfort zone.  Regardless, it deserves the next five minutes of your day, and it deserves your response.  Don't miss this.  They are looking for 50 people to help them put $10 into a very worthwhile cause:  giving children a vision and a chance.

The following request is from Lloyd Owens, a pastor from Atlanta, on his therstblog.com.  

The fifth grade at John Hope Elementary is scheduled to go on a field trip next month, but
were not going to be able to because there are NO funds to rent the
buses for the kids. Yeah, times are that hard in GA education! SO, we
have stepped in and are wanting you to partner with us for both this
trip and an end of the year trip, but we want to get this one out of
the way first!

So, come give a helping hand
to a group of Fifth graders who need it. Exposure to life outside of
the finite circle, the four block radius of their neighborhood, is
important to a child. It is just as important as reading and writing,
and without it how will they ever know the full potential that they
have?

Help us to send these fifth graders on this one of two filed trips
planned for them this year. We have a small goal for this upcoming
field trip of 500.00 and need the monies by the end of the week. This
will cover the rental fee for the buses as well as a lunch option for
the kids, that is actually a surprise to both the kids and the
administration!! I just believe in BIG, not in just enough, my God is
an abundant God and I want these kids to know that we care!!!

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YOU WILL BE MY WITNESSES IN JERUSALEM, JUDEA, SAMARIA, AND TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH A quick reflection from Brenda Salter McNiel at Catalyst 2008

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To be witnesses will require us to face the complexity of differences around us; To realize that not everyone is within our comfort zone… This part of Atlanta may be your Jerusalem, it may be your Judea, or it may be your Samaria.  That doesn't matter.  We are all called to it regardless.   I am honest enough to admit that I didn't even know what the Old Fourth Ward was before reading Pastor Lloyd's request, and I'd never heard of him.  I learned about him on Twitter from one of my acquaintances.  THAT DOESN'T MATTER! 

God wants to use me, and he wants to use you, to reach those we've never met and may never meet.  Will you join me?  They are halfway there, and I'm going to let God move through me today.  We're in for $10.  Will you let him use you today?  The clock is ticking.

Donate $10 to the Fifth Grade Field Trip.

Thank you.