{"id":1755,"date":"2018-07-05T14:22:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2018-07-05T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:22:53","slug":"awakening-minds-art-mathew-25-moment-in-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1755","title":{"rendered":"Awakening Minds Art; “Mathew 25 moment” in Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catching up on the last couple months…\u00a0 I did a newspaper interview with the director of the local Awakening Minds Art Program<\/strong>.\u00a0 It is in some 19 counties of Northwest Ohio and is, primarily, designed to use art as a medium to help special needs youth and adults.\u00a0 The director, Sarah Crisp, pointed to, for instance, Jared Willis, 16, who, physically, has a degree of “dwarfism,” and is a bit mentally delayed as well.\u00a0 (He had just won the program’s “Your Colors Change the World”<\/em> award for some of his art.\u00a0 He has, in time, become quite an artist, and by extension, a much more confident and optimistic youth these days.\u00a0 Rosalyn Carter was a big proponent of getting much more funding, and help in general, for mental health issues.\u00a0 Our administration would pick up that torch in a major<\/em> way — looking at mental health issues on a par with physical health issues…\u00a0 Our foreign policy<\/a> would focus much more — than the U.S.’s current paradigm — on worldwide poverty.\u00a0 (Some half the world populace lives on $2 a day, or less.)\u00a0 During this time, I also interviewed Bluffton University’s Professor Paul Neufeld Weaver.\u00a0 He is the director of the university’s Cross Cultural Program<\/strong>.\u00a0 He, for instance, takes students to a tough metro-neighborhood in the country of Columbia.\u00a0 They distribute food to the homeless, to drug addicts, to gang members, to prostitutes…\u00a0 The professor refers to it as a “Mathew 25 moment” for many of the students.\u00a0 What’s more, hopefully, just as many of the students come back with a much clearer understanding of the face of abject poverty, and such, in some of these countries.\u00a0 And by extension with this one, they then also get behind more non-profit and governmental initiatives to help in these poorer countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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