Reaching Souls International

We went last night to the annual banquest of Reaching Souls International (formerly Jimmy Hodges Ministries International), which is a ministry that we have been involved with for a long time. (They are the one's that I was able to go to Zimbawe with when I was in college.) They do a lot of neat things, and you can check them out at http://www.reachingsoulsinternational.com/.

Every year it is a powerful reminder of how blessed we are here in America and how much we take for granted. One of the things that they do is support African pastors, so that they can work full-time in the ministry. The pastors are paid $60 a month...this supports they and their family. It is going up to $65 a month in 2009 due to inflation around the world. They had one of the supported pastors from Rwanda speak last night, and he said how wonderful it was to have that support from Reaching Souls, because most churches there did not have that kind of money to support a pastor and it is hard to do God's work when you and your family are starving. Wow! Really puts some things in perspective. $60 a month!