Last night Sue and I attended the annual fund raising banquet for Shiloh House. Shiloh House is a residential treatment program for boys who have suffered trauma due to neglect, abuse or abandonment. Steve and Vicki Ramirez, the founders, attend GCC and invited us to join them for the dinner.
It was amazing! These guys are doing so much for the kids and have a huge heart to serve even more youth so they can enter adulthood prepared for a fruitful life. They have several homes and are looking to purchase an apartment complex and start a program for emancipated graduates of Shiloh House to help them find success as young adults on their own.
Amazing!
I've been studying fasting this week and Isaiah 58 really offers the best guidance on the whole deal. God says, essentially, "Why should I respond to your fast when you neglect the poor, turn away from the abandoned, and mistreat your workers? The fast I want is for you to love people like I love them and to sacrifice for them."
The chapter is a lot longer than that, but you get the idea.
I continue to be amazed at how many of us Christians have been deaf to this part of God's heart for so very long. I was a believer for over 20 years before I saw God's radical heart for and commitment to the under privileged.
The Lord is moving...something is afoot!
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