B.J. Murrey - World Orphans, Central America

So many times I am asked why I moved from the USA to Guatemala in service with World Orphans. So many times I am asked why I quit my job, gave away my businesses, and gave away everything I owned to move to a 3rd world country that most people can't locate on a map. So many times I wonder how I can best make people understand the need for me to ask them to donate money to me, through World Orphans, because I am doing a task that I can't get a "real job" and be paid for. So many times I am asked why I don't help the "poor people" here in the United States instead of going to Guatemala to do it. It's my hope that this very short (5 min.), Pulitzer prize winning video will give you a better idea of why. I depend on people like you to donate $5, $10, $20, monthly or even every now and then, in order to be able to be the means by which World Orphans can help prevent the eventual orphaning of these children by meeting their family's needs NOW through God's strong hand, the local churches around the world.

Everyone is aware of the global economic crisis. Everyone is affected, no doubt. But we have to ask ourselves "Do I look at myself as a victim of this economic crisis, (lamenting over a $4 cappuccino) or do I see myself as a means to minimize the life-threatening affects of those truly impacted world wide?"