Tiny Houses

Interesting approach to housing the homeless that I came across today.


Tiny houses help address nation's homeless problem

The Business of Missions

From "The Poor Will Be Glad" by Peter Greer and Phil Smith

I thought this was inciteful and worth noting:

Churches and ministries never have sufficient time, talent, and money to accomplish all they wish.  However, additional resources already exist in the form of businesspeople within the church who are an essential and underutilized part of fighting physical and spiritual poverty.  You can see one of the most obvious reasons business is important if you glance at your calendar, especially if it looks like mine...The simple fact is that, for most of us, we spend far more time developing relationships and interacting with those in the world or work than we do in the world of church.

The church I attend demonstrates another advantage of involving businesspeople in the mission of alleviating spiritual and physical poverty.  On a typical Sunday, we have over a thousand Christians enter our doors.  That is certainly something to celebrate.  But we seldom have many non-Christians pop in for a visit and, despite our best efforts, many of those infrequent visitors find it difficult to follow the terminology or get meaningfully engaged.  Business offers an environment where non-Christians can watch the behavior of committed Christians and learn about Christianity at their own pace and in their own way.  Business is a window through which the people who most need the gospel can watch Christ at work in the everyday lives of Christians.