It is too much to bear to think about slavery. It grieves my heart and God’s heart to see people enslaved.  I am tired of seeing people mistreat others. I would like to see the world be free and like to be free.

I want people to realize what they are doing to themselves and toward others.  So many people are harming themselves with drugs or commiting suicide or harming themselves with beer and alcohol.  It is not the answer to your life problem and it will make things worse in your own life. The only answer is Jesus and God. True freedom lies in this.

Jesus reveals God’s heart for us in Matthew when He tells us about the most important command.

“Jesus said, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.’ This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ These two commands are pegs; everything in God’s Law and the Prophets hangs from them.”  - Matthew 22:34-36

“So, since we’re out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we’re free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind? Hardly. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it’s your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives you’ve let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you’ve started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!” – Romans 6:15-18

*Ian Hamp volunteers every week at Sower if Seeds International

He is a guest writer on the SOS blog. He likes expressing God’s heart.

Follow Ian on twitter – www.twitter.com/theianster

To volunteer, give Amanda a call at 817.898.0262.

If you can’t run, give us a shout. We’ll let you in on the action – Jailbreak needs your help!

The following information is from from the jailbreak web site:  http://www.runthejailbreak.com/info…

“September 18-19th, 2010. Pass it on.  Keep your voice down.  The frickin’ sofa can’t hold us forever… we’re bustin’ out of here!

Here’s the plan: from our rendezvous point in Roanoke, Texas, we’ll make a break for it – if all go at the same time, we’ll have a better chance for success.

It won’t be easy – we’ll be going for 3.8 miles before we’re in the clear. We’ll probably get chased by the Law. The terrain will be on our side, though it’ll be rough – mud, sludge, low wire, river crossings, and who knows what else. This isn’t for prison wives. But I think you’ve got what it takes to do the Jailbreak with me. Mark it on your calendar, and don’t be late.

Spread the word. Success is in numbers, my friend.

When you run through muddy water at the Jailbreak, you’re insuring kids in India don’t have to drink something similar. The Jailbreak run is directly benefiting Sower of Seeds, a non-profit ministry with compassion outreaches to India.

Sower of Seeds has a focus on social development, and they are committed to searching for and developing not only sustainable life-saving solutions, but also truly life-changing ones to the problems the poor face every day.

Our goal is to drill as many clean water wells in India as we possibly can. For every 1,000 participants, we can dig one well in India. Every 15 seconds one child in India dies from water-related causes. You can help drill water wells in communities without safe,clean drinking water.”

*The Jailbreak Run is an independent fundraising event. It is not organized by Sower of Seeds International Ministries.

The high rate and extremely high number of malnourished children in India continues to challenge us to make a difference.

Feeding forms a crucial part of S.O.S.’s Destiny India Project, a project from SOS working to improve the prospects of children living in the slums of Mumbai India. India’s most populous city.

Read more here…

“Train up a child in the way he should go [and in keeping with his individual gift or bent], and when he is old he will not depart from it. “ - Proverbs 22:6  Amplified Bible

If your child is so gifted with ability and finds his or her class that suit them best,  you’ll see your own child achieving their own dreams.

“A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.”  - Luke 6:40 - New International Version

Let God be with you always.

*Ian Hamp volunteers every week at Sower if Seeds International
He is a guest writer on the SOS blog. He likes expressing God’s heart.

Follow Ian on twitter – www.twitter.com/theianster

The quality of early childhood education available to us affects us our entire lives.  It has also been shown that our diet directly affects our ability to learn. This is of extreme importance in the developing world.

Childhood Malnutrition affects about 195 million children worldwide. It is even more shocking to note that one third of all these malnourished and undernourished children are found in a single country, India.

S.O.S.’s Destiny India Schools offer free education and an effective nutritional program for 3-6 year-olds in Mumbai India, where more than 50% of the city’s estimated 20 million inhabitants live in slums.

Children are our most valuable resource. By providing a comprehensive package that brings education and proper nutrition to poor communities, especially in slums, entire communities are transformed and we believe we can see the cycle of poverty broken.

Destiny India Schools unlock the doors to a brighter future for slum children, helping to redeem their tomorrow by providing basic needs: Education, Food, Clothing, Medical Care, and Mentoring.

$10,000 can support a school of 50 children for 1 year

$1,000 can support a school of 50 children for 1 month

$500 can support 25 children for 1 month

$100 can support 5 children for 1 month

$20 per month can support 1 child in a Destiny India School for as long as you want to!

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by Ian Hamp
Honorary Volunteer Director and Guest Blogger

“The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike!” – John 4:36 (New Living Translation)

God has helped me to overcome many life issues.  Some things have been defeated and I am still trying to change. God has helped me change many things.  I place my hope in Him and put my entire life, being, body, soul and mind into His hands.

As I was growing up I did not realize that I was in the middle of spiritual warfare. Only after many years, I realized that God really wanted to change me from my old self into a new self… I realized that He wanted to shape my character.  That is when I decided to change.

All of us have something to overcome.  The good news is that God wants to shape us in His image.

God helps people to change.  It’s His heart to restore you from all your mistakes in your life and with His help you can truly be restored and He wants to help you improve your life.

I want to see people changed by God’s power as He has helped me to change my character for the better.  It’s His heart to see lives changed by His power, not by human hands and not by us. It is not our job to fix people. It is God’s job to fix people. that is how God deals with us here on this earth. And He rejoices with us when we celebrate each other’s victories.

It is God’s desire to see this world restored and redeemed by His power.

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God has sobered me from my dirty rapping into a new fresh gospel rhyming rap. That is all he wanted me to do.  He gave me a new identity which is named Ianster, to give a good message to people to be changed by God to be loved and to love in their own terms.

*Ian Hamp volunteers every week at Sower if Seeds International
He is a guest writer on the SOS blog.

Follow Ian on twitter – www.twitter.com/theianster

Today, August 12, 2010 the U.N. observes International Youth Day.  The theme they have decided on this year is “Dialogue and Mutual Understanding.”

We know for a fact that technology and social media enable cross-cultural dialogue. This happens every day, and it is easier than ever before. This furthered communication is helping to foster greater understanding across cultural and national borders. The question that arises in me is, “For what purpose?”

Dwayne Weehunt, the president and founder of S.O.S. often remarks that, “Awareness without action is inoculation.” American youth are becoming more aware of other cultures and worldviews, but to what end?  We live in the richest and most powerful country on earth. Our youth are afforded more opportunities as individuals than entire communities of young people will ever see in other parts of the world. In slums in India and other countries, a concept like the “American Dream,” has never even been considered. Their concern is their next meal.

I don’t think it appropriate to come down on American youth because we have more opportunities, influence and resources than most… I want to celebrate and thank the Lord for our country. However, I know that it is not by mere coincidence that I or anyone else was born or came to this great country.

My desire is that our youth would learn to steward the blessings with which we have been entrusted. It is not hard to draw a parallel between our lives and the story of the Talents in Matthew 25. Jesus explains the principle and outcome of stewarding that that has been entrusted to us. Jesus also tells us in Luke 12:48, “For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required.”

I believe it goes without saying that we are blessed so that we can be a blessing. We are doing our youth a disservice if we encourage awareness without teaching them how we the church can be the solution to the world’s greatest problems. No more should we allow any young people in our sphere of influence to believe that it is the role of any government to provide for the needs of our generation’s poor and marginalized.  Governments alone cannot succeed.

With the Lord, we will always have a majority. The bible says that through Him, “all things are possible.” On this International Youth Day, I challenge you to pray not only for the world’s youth but also for our youth while considering how you can call and empower them to accomplish greater things.

If we forsake our youth, we forsake the future of the church and the future of the world.

*From the jailbreak web site:  http://www.runthejailbreak.com/info…

“September 18th, 2010. Pass it on.  Keep your voice down.  The frickin’ sofa can’t hold us forever… we’re bustin’ out of here!

Here’s the plan: from our rendezvous point in Roanoke, Texas, we’ll make a break for it – if all go at the same time, we’ll have a better chance for success.

It won’t be easy – we’ll be going for 3.8 miles before we’re in the clear. We’ll probably get chased by the Law. The terrain will be on our side, though it’ll be rough – mud, sludge, low wire, river crossings, and who knows what else. This isn’t for prison wives. But I think you’ve got what it takes to do the Jailbreak with me. Mark it on your calendar, and don’t be late.

Spread the word. Success is in numbers, my friend.

When you run through muddy water at the Jailbreak, you’re insuring kids in India don’t have to drink something similar. The Jailbreak run is directly benefiting Sower of Seeds, a non-profit ministry with compassion outreaches to India.

Sower of Seeds has a focus on social development, and they are committed to searching for and developing not only sustainable life-saving solutions, but also truly life-changing ones to the problems the poor face every day.

Our goal is to drill as many clean water wells in India as we possibly can. For every 1,000 participants, we can dig one well in India. Every 15 seconds one child in India dies from water-related causes. You can help drill water wells in communities without safe,clean drinking water.”

Register Today!

*The Jailbreak Run is an independent fundraising event. It is not organized by Sower of Seeds International Ministries.

… 1 in every 3 of the World’s Malnourished Children live in India.

Malnutrition is a nationwide problem , but there are solutions to diminish it’s occurrence.

S.O.S. feeds all the children in our Destiny India Schools a balanced meal during the school week. While the program is highly successful for children in the program, there are still many children who do not have access to food or education.

Please help support this program as well as S.O.S.’s emergency feeding programs in the slums in around Mumbai. Children count on it! For more information go to www.sowerofseeds.org/destiny