Action: Little Black Dress Pt.2 (The How)

by Elisa | Jan 16, 2012 | Fair Trade Products, Ways to Make a Difference

Last week I posted on the new action I will be trying out for you in February. Afterwords I will review it, describing every gory detail. Although I know you like me to go first, I am hoping we can grow our influence by having some of you join me in wearing the same...

Action: Little Black Dress

by Elisa | Jan 9, 2012 | Fair Trade Products, Good Charities, Poverty, Ways to Make a Difference

I’m getting excited. I always get excited when I am anticipating something I don’t want to do, but have finally embraced I am going to do anyway. AND, even better, I’m hoping I don’t have to do it alone, that I will be able to convince at least a few of you to join...

Book Review: More Than Rice

by Elisa | Dec 31, 2011 | Human Trafficking, Seeking Justice, Women's Empowerment

Book Review More Than Rice: A Journey Through the Underworld of Human Trafficking is written by Pamela Kennedy Chestnut. It was released in September of 2010 and has 189 pages. It is a novel about a seventeen year-old girl, Gabriela, who was abducted from her teenage...

How To Do a Sole Hope Shoe-Cutting Party

by Elisa | Dec 8, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Children-in-Need, Global Health, Good Charities, Ways to Make a Difference

Sole Hope is an organization whose goal is to give hope to widows, orphans and other children by using a sustainable approach in foot care (never underestimate the power of feet!). A few months ago guest blogger, Steph from Encouraged in Heart, posted all about Sole...

AIDS/HIV 101: Why Should I Care?

by Elisa | Dec 1, 2011 | Global Health

Why should we care about AIDS? I was trying to figure out when I started caring about AIDS. I think I knew someone with AIDS briefly, as a kid, before he passed on. I definitely didn't care about that person. But I've never really known someone with the disease. Most...

Art of Advocacy: Supporting the Causes of Others to be World Changers

by Elisa | Nov 22, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Helping that Doesn't Hurt, Poverty, United States

Moving Beyond Expectations When I talk about sports, I sound like an idiot. I choose teams based on the colors I like, unless I have some sort of vague attachment to a team, like through extended family. Or that I lived in Spain. So, by plain luck, in the past twelve...

Art of Advocacy: Being Thankful When I’ve Never Been Without

by Elisa | Nov 15, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Poverty, United States

The author of this guest post is Katie, who believes that she has experienced grace by knowing Jesus, trusting in Him as her ultimate hope. She is also a nurse and a mom who loves the orphaned, abandoned, and those looked down upon in our society. Being...

Inspiring: Breathing Life into Advocacy

by Elisa | Nov 10, 2011 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Community, Spiritual Discipleship, United States

Breathing Life into Advocacy I’ve been thinking about the word “inspired” a lot recently, in thanks to the people who voted this into the Average Advocate’s new tag phrase. According to Merriam-Webster, one of the definitions of the verb inspire is “to breathe . . ....

Book Review: Fast Living

by Elisa | Nov 5, 2011 | Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Good Charities, Poverty, Women's Empowerment

This review is on the book Fast Living by Scott C. Todd (September 2011). This book was released along with the Live 58 Movement and 58: The Film. If you are interested in figuring out what these are, check out Average Advocate's review and explanation by clicking...

Adventure

Swamp Wisdom: An Ecclesiastes on Human Rights

Ever heard of ancient King Solomon? He was said to be the wisest of them all as he philosophized...

Busy Moms, Community, Family & Relationships, Raising Kids

Storm Chaser; Change Chaser: On Saying Goodbye

How Can Anyone Say Goodbye? I’m starting to feel all panicky that I am leaving all my...

Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Mental Health, Recovery, Safe Spaces

Understanding Terms for Poor Nations vs. Rich Nations

Terms of Poverty Whether in public political addresses or in pleas from non-profits, we have all heard some of these terms thrown around at some point or another. But just because we can infer their general meaning, I...