Week 3 Introduction by Amber Van Schooneveld
God doesn't ask us to have a Ph.D. in poverty before we can reach out to help others. Phew! He's gracious enough to use any one of us to serve him. But understanding what poverty is and how it affects a person can be key in determining how we want to respond to the need we see around us. One of the biggest things that I've learned about poverty isn't some abstract academic concept or anything to do about statistics. It's about people. Instead of getting bogged down in all the numbers and theories, remember, poverty is about people who are suffering. People whom God loves, and people whom God calls us to love too!
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Poverty really is about people, people not unlike me but in vastly different situations. I was jolted just this past week with an update from our mortgage company. We'll need to pay hundreds of dollars extra each month into our escrow because out property taxes doubled. "Oh my gosh," we thought, "how can we do this?!" And I'm reminded that people who have "nothing" live with far, far greater cries of anguish every day.
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