I got a chance to watch Invisible Children at House Blend Cafe in Ocoee last night. My heart has really begun to wrap itself around the poor, impoverished and forsaken people all around us and this movie is doing its part to help. I know that this is what Jesus really had in store for the church not the institutional monster that it has become.

Invisible Children is an amazing story of three American guys that traveled to the Southern Sudan to learn about the genocide and atrocities that are happening there and found another truly amazing story that needed to be told. How children were traveling each night (they called them night commuters) from a rural village to sleep under verandas any where they could find to keep safe from a rebel army, the LRA, that is abducting 8 to I think 12 or 14 years to brainwash them and turn them in to murderers that will fight their war against the Ugandan Government.

People there are stories out there that we are not even hearing about. Why is that? Because they don’t think you will stomach this kind of news and all you want to hear about this the silly bickering over the War in Iraqi and Global Warming. People are dying all over the world and we can help but we have to get up off our couches and do something about it. I’m planning a city wide rally in DeLand to show the Invisible Children documentary as many places and to as many people will listen so I can get the word out and tell their story.

Get involved where you are and find a worth cause that you can serve and try and make the world really a better place one person at a time.

Tonight in 15 cities around the US there are people voluntary deciding to live in a Displacement Camp like those that the Ugandan government has decided to make the people of Northern Uganda live in as a way to keep them safe from the LRA, but these camps are making the situation worse for the people and are not a viable means to end this situation there. Here is a link to a news story about the group closet to me that camped at UCF.

[tags]Invisible Children, Social Justice, DeLand, Get Involved, House Blend Cafe, Displace Me, UCF[/tags]

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