Tuesday, January 15, 2008

remembering Jerusalem.

I meant to blog about this organization a few months ago when I found it but I just forgot. I heard about Rosa Loves through Relevant magazine. Part of their mission statement is this:

We hope to encourage individual people to get involved in the community around them on a somewhat tangible scale. We will accomplish this by providing financial support to those in need by infiltrating the t-shirt industry with a
new perspective of how clothing can serve a purpose other than outfitting. Everyone has a story. Everyone has a need. By using art and creativity, we hope to foster hope and encouragement through the aid of apparel. Each story will be told through stimulating graphics and actual text that will appear on the inverse of the shirt directly in line with the heart, where the Rosa Loves movement stems from.
Basically they see individuals with tangible needs in their area, i.e. a new walker, a new home, a meal, and create these shirts with graphics unique to that person's/family's story and sell them to meet that specific need. When they raise enough, that shirt is no longer available.

I was talking with a couple of good friends the other nite, one of whom is apart of a very active Christian organization on campus and he talked about how busy he was last semester with a large service project they were doing and how the spring project usually "tops" the fall one and he was having doubts about the effectiveness of the large project and all the resources it took compared to doing several smaller, local projects. When considering, Acts 1:8,

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
I think it is easy to only think of the "end of the earth" part, especially as a college student when speaker after speaker presents amazing opportunities to go serve Christ in far off places. I can definitely say I am guilty of not reaching out enough to the people I come in contact with on a daily basis.

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