Ironic

Just a comment on my last two posts. I posted a thought provoking picture with Mother Thersa about two weeks ago. It was in response to a book I am reading called Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger. This book outlines some of the causes of poverty in the world and how evangelicals seem to turn their head to the epidemic. While world poverty has improved in the last twenty years (since Sider first published his book) the new 20th Anniversary edition reminds that 34,000 children still die each year from starvation. While Starbucks is kept in business by overweight Americans (illustration mine).

My latest post featured a plee from *me* to click on a link and help me earn a new IPod from a website. I am 4 people shy of finishing the requirements and hopefully by May will be listening to the new white mp3 player. This post caused 8 friends to email me and another 85 to click on my link and check things out. One friend has even tried the contest for himself.

It is ironic the things that get our attention in this world? I have written 2 blogs about an IPod and have spent time online, as well as coaxing friends into helping me out and I have not attempted to help world poverty (let alone local poverty) at all.

What needs to happen is that UNICEF needs to team up with Apple and offer an IPod to everyone who gives $200 to disaster relief or sponsors a child. Seems silly, but why has one of my blogs gotten much attention while the other never got a response? Both were short and to the point, but one required something... it required me to care, not about what I would get but what I could give.

I hope I grow up one day and stop being a consumer and think about being a contributer?

Free Ipod?

I recently popped onto freeipods.com to see if I could get into the action of this REAL giveaway of the hottest mp3 player for 3 years running. My assumptin was that it was a scam, but one weary night I gave in and committed to try at least. Once on the site things looked promising, it was a well designed site, nice index page, great links, fairly reputable looking (I'd shopped on worse!) So, I dove in. At first I did not understand the rules very well, it was laid out clearly, but I guess in my impatience I ordered from several companies and only needed to order from one (oops).

Anyways, after I received several of my products I was still unable to get me referrals to go to the site and try it out (you need 5 for th ipod, 8 for the flat screen TV). I am still at 1 referral who has signed up, but 11 more are looking into it. So, click on the link above and give it a try. If I get four more folks I'm a new ipod owner, you wanna be next?

JMAK

Poverty (part 1)