what is poverty???

  Write a short definition of the risk.

What is poverty?

Standard of poverty definition is someone who can’t earn money enough for live.

It is very difficult to say that how much money is that enough for live.

What is influence to poverty?

Because of weather, prices, custom and traditional, education, health and the span of life, population increase, no free trade, ulcer…etc

What is happening to poverty?

Because of poverty:

Low standard education, harsh work and children need to work, deterioration of order, induce terrorism…etc

news about poverty

Today I searched about poverty news...   

Thousands of Oxford children living in poverty

An estimated 5,800 children were thought to be living in poverty in Oxford in 2008

This is the link for the news...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-12119269

Questions…

1.    How did you feel after read the article?

2.    Why people became poor even they are live in advanced country?

3.    What is the big problem for children?

4.    What is the government’s responsibility for poverty?

5.    What is parent’s responsibility for their own children?

6.    How we can get out from poverty?

7.    If your family is poor, what will you do?

8.    If your neighbor is poor what will you do?

9.    What can we do to prevent children from being in poverty?

My future ministry statement...and the reason...

Hello, today I want to share my heart for my future ministry

Ministry Summary( What I do)

My personal mission statement:

I want to be a vessel of God. Without His love and words, I can’t do any great mission.

And I will love and respect every child like God loves them.  And I’ll invite them to come to God and I want to tell them about how God loves them.

Now I’m not involved any mission and I don’t have any ministry history.

But I have a vision and goal at present. My vision is to build up homes for street children (especially for girls) and help to heal their wounded hearts. Also I would help with reconciliation of the family. Still I don’t know when and where but I’ll keep on seeking to God.

Ministry purpose (Why you do it)-This is where you tell others why you do what you do and what impact you want to make on the lives of the people you are ministering to. Describe your vision for the future.

2years ago, before I went to Brazil, I prayed about street children in Brazil. And that time I remind about the news which was talking about street children were killed by police. And suddenly my heart was broke. I couldn’t understand why I was crying. But I felt that God is also crying for them. From that time I had an interested in street children. And I went to Brazil and I met many street children. They were smiling but they hold drug in pet bottle. Again my heart was broke. They are so precious children for God and precious brother and sister for me but they don’t know their own true value.

That time I felt that I want to work for street children and tell them about God’s love for them and their true value in God. I want to impact on them about how God thinking about them and they can know their true value.  This is reason why I want to work for street children and what I want to impact on them. And this is also my vision for future.

2week lecture

2^nd week speaker: Steve Bartel

~Street Children, Botega, Columbia~

・Introduce the speaker and the topic

Mr. Steve came from Columbia and he taught us about street children. And he has many experience and story. I loved to listen his story. Through his experience and his story I learned a lot.

・2 or 3 main concepts that you took out of lectures.

Consept1 Relationship is not thing but time!

Consept2 When we start ministry, unseen part( intersession, waiting/ dying(of course not physically) and calling of the visionary) is more important than seen part( money, research, team, house and support team)

Consept3 we need to put God in our center always.

the role/authority of the church, government, family, media, science, art, education, and business as it concerns the risk

What can we do for them??

For example, church can open the door and invite (also reach out to) children and tell them about God. And we can give them food.

  Media can inform about their life to many people more and more. (Actually when I got to know about street children first time was through document TV) 

On the business, Nike handed out shoes to street children.  I expect that government can give education to street children.

We can do something for them. Let’s thinking about it !

One boy's story ...

3years ago I was in Brazil. And I met a boy who was a street child before. I want to introduce about his experience… 

He was born in rich family but his parents are divorce and he lived with her mother and his boyfriend. Mother’s boyfriend abused him by fiscally and mother didn’t help him.

So one day he decided to run away to street. He didn’t have anything. And He became a prostitute for men. Because this was only way to live. He was so tired.

But one day, when he sat on the street, one Lady came to him and they went to a home for street children. At the time he get to know God. He is living at the home now and study at school and healing his heart through God’s love.

Millennium Development Goals for street children

Goal 1: End poverty and hunger

Goal 2: Universal primary education

Goal 3: Gender equality

Goal 4: Reduce childhood mortality

Goal 5: Maternal health

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS

Goal 7: Environmental sustainability

Here is the link for them which are decided at NY in 2010.

http://streetchildworldcup.org/blog/street-children-failed-by-millennium-development-goals/