FREAKS!!

At the 16th induction ceremony for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, U2's Bono looked out at the crowd and said, "The whole world is full of freaks...Look at yourselves! God makes music out of his mistakes. I know--I'm one of them."

I know exactly what Bono was saying. We who claim to be followers of Jesus, I mean real action oriented followers of Jesus, are indeed FREAKS. We are the minority, aberrations if you will.

An early Celtic teacher once said, "I do not wish you to suppose that righteousness consists simply in not doing evil, since not to do good is also evil." You see, it's not enough that we are not the cause of the poverty in Honduras and elsewhere in the world, but to do nothing about it makes us evil. Take a look at Matthew 25 and see what the results of doing nothing are. You won't like it.

The good news is we are not doing nothing. We are doing a ton!! For instance, in Santa Fe, the village where the teens will be going in June, the villagers are hard at work digging the trenches for the water system. Take a look at the backhoes and the terrain they are working in.









We are partnering with them. They are doing the hand labor, we are supplying 70% of the cost of the water system. They will be organizing an association to levy a fee on each home that will be using the water. They will then repay the 30% that is their share of the construction cost, mostly materials, over time of course. They will own the system. Since they will own the system, they will maintain it out of the revenues of the levied fee.

...A HAND UP AND NOT A HAND OUT!!...

It is you FREAKS that are making this possible. Keep on being FREEKY YOU FREEKIN FREEKS...we are just likely to change the world. We are changing the world in Santa Fe...and Agua Amarilla...and San Antonio...and Vallecito. You just keep watchin!!