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Know this song?
"Me and all my friends
We're all misunderstood
They say we stand for nothing and
There's no way we ever could
Now we see everything that's going wrong
With the world and those who lead it
We just feel like we don't have the means
To rise above and beat it
So we keep on waiting, waiting for the world to
change..."
I love this song. I have it on my iPod. Maybe
one day I'll learn to play it on my guitar. (Maybe not.) But the lyrics are
painful in their powerlessness... And if everyone is waiting, I wonder, WHO
IS DOING THE CHANGING? Consider this instead: Social Change happens
though Social Movements. Maybe that isn't profound, isn't as poetic, may
not make a great song. But it is true. And maybe it brings up questions that
beckon you... What moves you? How to change the world? Where to
start?
"It's hard to beat the system
When we're standing at a distance..."*
True enough. So, is it time to get close? You
have more power than you may realize, and you can begin to see for yourself in a
poverty immersion event, open to high school through adult. We're
already thinking about 2010, and maybe you are, too.
College Students...
looking for an alternative spring break?
College Week 2010 is your chance to meet
other students and experience our poverty simulation surrounded by variety
of perspectives. If our spring break and yours don't match, you can choose
your own week...
and don't
leave your middle-schoolers behind...
Nurture their vision of a better world through
SoJust, our half-week social
justice camp. This is offered twice in July 2010 to
break the ice of
awareness and compassion! (Or you can gather 25-40 youth and we'll set dates
that work for you.) Prefer a Fall or Winter event? Check out these
off-season rates...
Wanna talk about your UrbanSpirit experience?
You can do that, on our facebook page.
Tell others what you loved and
why you'd go back... or what you hated and why it mattered...
Look who else is talking...
Check out this story in the Fall 2009 edition of
Disciples'
Advocate from Disciples Home Missions!
*Waiting on the world to change" lyrics by John Mayer. copyright info
unavailable.
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