grandma's underground....

went to training tonight to volunteer with Grandma's Ireland, which provides simple practical care and babbysitting for families dealing with aids.

This nights training stuck me in a differnt couple of ways, i am gonna rant about each one cause i dont want to forget my current emotions or what God has been saying.

1. There are 6000 people diagnosed hiv positive every day, 60 million have died so far. but stop thinking third world this is happening in the uk and irelnad. right now there are huge numbers of people living with Hiv, like on the bus, only reason we dont know is because, funnily enough they dont shout about it. Stop thinking gay the biggest growing spreader of the disease is unprotected heterosexual sex. To parapharse the Rev Jesse Jackson, heavily involved in the movement that won black people equal rights, this is our generations challenge, this is our great injustice this is our world war II.

2. Where are Jesus' ppl in this? it was His people abandoned to Him who listened to the whisper and began education for children, built hosiptals when they didnt exist and generally shaped the things in society we take forgranted. How can the ruined church of europe recover from sex scandals and totally loss of relivance to the average person? could it be by loving the people the world wont touch? could it be by returning to the concept that church is listening to God's heart beat and meeting ppl where they are with the Love of Christ?

3. There were about 10 people in the training tonight, there are 30 families on this charities waiting list, a charity which by any statistical assement is working in with less than 1% of the people affected by aids in ireland. where is the army?
but most worrying is that i was the sole male there. Where are the guys? Although you might say that child care comes easier to females, I would be tempted to say there are MANY fatherless familes crying out for a father figure(which there are) BUT instead i ask you where is the equivalent ministry going on that guys do easier? There isnt one!

The simple fact is the guys arent doing anything.

In every church i have ever been to guys walk in the pale shadow of thier sisters, they might preach and lead worship but when it comes to getting hands dirty, getting creative, serving, they are no where to be seen. What sort of a body are we if one half is carrying the other?
WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP.
The God who dreamt up this universe has a destiny for you that is an adventure beyond your wildest dreams with higher hights and lower depths than you will experience outside of Him.
and we miss it, one day at a time, sitting on a sofa scratching.
we dont have to have this dream or big plan, God is waiting to give it to us, all we have to do is listen...