The challenge...

 

Here are the street boys in the slums of Kampala eating the food they were served at the feeding program... for some kids this is one of the few meals they eat each week... Heartbreaking...

 

 

Look at this little beauty... She is precious... Perfectly created by our Heavenly Father... You don't see very many little girls on the streets... But she may have just joined up with our group as we traveled through the slums to go play soccer with the boys... You should have seen the following of kids we immediately attracted as we wove through the incredibly dirty and poverty stricken area...

 

 

 

Which brings me to today...

 

It is time for our annual (well now it is annual, since this is our 2nd year doing it) beans and rice challenge...

 

In an effort to...

1.  Give us all some perspective on  how good we have it here in America and how very spoiled we are...

2.  See how very hard some people have it in the world...

3.  Bump up the gratitude level around here...

4.  Grow more empathy for orphans, kids who live on the streets, the homeless in our own backyard...

5.  Be content with less...
6.  Learn to be thankful for whatever we get to eat... not matter how much we like or dislike it:):)

7.   and hopefully allow the Lord to teach us even more than we are expecting and grow us in ways we didn't imagine...

 

We will be eating beans and rice for the next month... at lunchtime...

I know... not a very big deal... :):)  But you have to start somewhere right??

 

We will not be legalistic about it... But we will try our very best to stick to it... If we happen to get a lunch invitation in the coming month... then we will eat beans and rice for dinner that day instead... I am sure it won't be but a day or 2 till Greg is offered a nice big beef and cheese sandwich at church...t always works that way... and that is where the rubber meets the road:)

 

Tomorrow, the kids will take a try at eating that beans and rice with just their hands... just a little practical experience for them to realize how millions of kids eat each day... If you look at the pictures above you will see the street kids in Uganda doing just that. 

 

I will keep you posted on how it is going... Jojo, the funny kid that he is... is totally excited about it:)  I have heard a few moans from the rest... the beans are already in the crock pot...

 

Tomorrow Day 1...Hintz beans and rice challenge 2013...

Anyone want to join us??