Quote of the Month: November 2017
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"My momma didn't send me to school to learn. She sent me to school to eat. I watched as people passed on their way to church as I dug through garbage cans for food."-Kevin BrownKevin Brown was born to a 15-year old girl and lived in an unheated hovel. His mother would have him sit on a milk crate with a "table" of a cardboard box in front of him an say "God will provide." But most of the time Kevin starved. "I would eat paper," he said, "and I'd eat dirt and try to imagine it was food. At night I would dream of eating."Against all odds, Kevin is now successful. He has dual master's degrees and is a teacher. But tears run down his cheeks and he can barely speak of the days when he could feel his stomach eating itself every day.We are all the hands and feet of Christ and there are Kevins all around us. In neighborhoods where poverty is rampant the church has the demanding and difficult burden of caring for those in need. Let us never pass...
"My momma didn't send me to school to learn. She sent me to school to eat. I watched as people passed on their way to church as I dug through garbage cans for food."
-Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown was born to a 15-year old girl and lived in an unheated hovel. His mother would have him sit on a milk crate with a "table" of a cardboard box in front of him an say "God will provide." But most of the time Kevin starved. "I would eat paper," he said, "and I'd eat dirt and try to imagine it was food. At night I would dream of eating."
Against all odds, Kevin is now successful. He has dual master's degrees and is a teacher. But tears run down his cheeks and he can barely speak of the days when he could feel his stomach eating itself every day.
We are all the hands and feet of Christ and there are Kevins all around us. In neighborhoods where poverty is rampant the church has the demanding and difficult burden of caring for those in need. Let us never pass another Kevin without finding out what we can do. And let us all do what we can to assist those churches and ministries on the front lines of this important work. Children should not go hungry anywhere, certainly not in Indianapolis.
Unite Indy is connecting those who can help with those who are missionaries in our own city. Join us in this important work.
God Bless,
Jim
"...With God, all things are possible" - Matthew 19:26
About Jim Cotterill
Jim Cotterill co-founded 2nd Chance Indiana (as UNITE INDY) in late 2016. After a decade as the founding president of National Christian Foundation Indiana following several years developing a chain of Business Journals across the country, he and his wife, Nancy, were led to serve those coming out of long term incarceration by helping them find and keep jobs that pay a living wage. Jim and Nancy believe that, through the dignity of work, reentrants' lives can be changed and their families can be lifted out of poverty.
