As I continue to borough myself into the facts, interviews, videos and so forth of Advent Conspiracy's site, I am continually amazed at what is happening among SO many people around the world fighting the oceans of pain and suffering of individuals. In fact, I'm embarassed it took me this long to find out. The more you read, the more you investigate information about this topic that we are so shielded from with our idyllic lives, it's staggering and just about impossible to wrap my puny mind around it.
If you take the time to look at Advents site, be sure to check out an interview done with Nathan George of 'Trade as One' (Trade as One is an online fair trade company that sells products that people in America need (things like coffee, olive oil, chocolate, T Shirts, bags, gifts), all made by the sort of people that Jesus called “the least of these” - people released from human trafficking, women affected by HIV/AIDS, people escaping abusive poverty)
Here’s an amazing statistic from his interview:
"If every churchgoer in America made just one fair trade purchase this Christmas, we would collectively lift one million families out of abusive poverty for one whole year."
This is just ONE of hundreds of organizations working for the good.
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