{"id":155,"date":"2004-10-22T09:25:21","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T09:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=148"},"modified":"2004-10-22T09:25:21","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T09:25:21","slug":"101704","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"10\/17\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont.<\/strong><\/em> Talked to a Sunday School class (7th and 8th graders) at St. Thomas Moore Church in Bowling Green, Ohio today about the famine and violence affecting youth their age in the Sudan currently. I asked them to consider a fundraising project (with a graphic display, etc.) to help generate funds for their “brothers and sisters” over there. A 7th grader volunteered to head the project and suggested maybe they could get a friendly fundraising competition going with a parish across town as well. I then went to Hicksville, Ohio where I talked to a Third Order Franciscan group there. Wonderful people. I told them of a model I researched at St. Blaze Parish in Bellingham, Massachussetts. (The parish there averages tithing a phenomenal 17% per parishioner.) They donate to an impoverished Native American Indian Reservation in New Mexico and a mission in a Third World country. Each month a woman at St. Blaze writes a story about how the tithing has helped, say, a little Indian girl get her first dress, or a family in the Third World who was able to buy a farm animal, or… One parishioner at St. Blaze said since the stories started appearing, giving tithing is no longer like impersonally: “just paying another bill.” I suggested maybe some area parishes could adopt the model and help in the Sudan at a grassroots level — because it seems our government (and majority American populace sentiment) is being slow to act amidst the absolutely horrific genocide there. I added if there was ever a “Pro-Life” issue, this would be one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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