Here in Canada we are so fortunate to have access to just about every luxury. Even the poorest among us have clean water, enough food, utilities and even a selection of entertainment options.  Through the "Passport" event that we hosted here in April and November of last year, I and many of our shelter residents have learned that we in Canada are all truly RICH by global standards (see www.globalrichlist.com), so we decided to do something about it.  

On May 25, 2011 Southridge Shelter made our first ever Kiva loan to a rice farmer in the …

During our sermon series "The Language of Love", we discussed how gift-giving is a critical expression of love to God and to each other.  We learned that in order to speak this language we need to understand that everything we have is a gift from God and and that we should be generous to each other as a response of love to Him.  When we heard this message the idea of generosity to the world's most poor had already been stirring in our shelter community following the GO-11 conference one month earlier in which two …