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Rise-Up: The Poway Shooting From a Local’s Perspective

by Elisa | Apr 28, 2019 | Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Create Awareness, Seeking Justice, United States | 0 |

Poway Poway is my stomping grounds, a small town on the outskirts of San Diego that sees...

Why Do We Ignore Suffering Children?

by Elisa | Sep 29, 2016 | Children-in-Need, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Create Awareness, Good Charities, Human Rights, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

We want to care. We should care. So why do we Ignore the children? We Ignore When We Are...

The American Saftey Bubble–How The Sandy Hook Shooting Can Awaken Us

by Elisa | Dec 21, 2012 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Seeking Justice, United States | 0 |

Sandy Hook Shooting A week ago there was a horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary where first graders and kindergartners were brutally murdered. Little tiny, punchy, learning-their-words Kindergartners? There is no...

Poverty vs. Indifference: An Advocate’s Hope

by Elisa | Aug 31, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Good Charities, Poverty, Spiritual Discipleship, Ways to Make a Difference | 1 |

My name is Katie. I believe that I have experienced grace by knowing Jesus, trusting in Him as my ultimate hope. I am a nurse and a mom who loves the orphaned, abandoned, and those looked down upon in our society. These are...

Action: Only Drinking Water (No Coffee!)

by Elisa | Feb 21, 2011 | Clean Water, Poverty, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

But there are people out there, people like me, who HAVE to have their coffee or ____ (insert drink of choice here) every morning. For some people it is sweet tea, for others it is jasmine green herbal goodness tea. Orange Juice, V8 Juice, or, yes, I am serious- morning shot of Mountain Dew. I know, right!? Mountain Dew?! That is disgusting! Yet a vice is a vice, no matter what it may be . . . It comes down to challenging yourself to give up everything but water, to give up something you love, even something you think you need.