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It’s Your Choice: Going All In or Not?

by Elisa | Jan 18, 2018 | Fully Alive, Human Trafficking, Productivity | 0 |

It is easy to notice when a child goes all in or not. Especially toddlers and preschoolers. They...

How To Know If You Are A Baby-Lover & Operation Baby Rescue

by Elisa | Oct 31, 2015 | Children-in-Need, Global Health, Good Charities, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

How To Know If You Are a Baby-Lover I am proud to announce I have a perfect way for you to...

United Mothers: Childbirth Hurts Like Heck (But The Baby is Bliss)

by Elisa | Aug 29, 2014 | Busy Moms, Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Global Health, Ways to Make a Difference, Women's Empowerment | 2 |

I Hate Childbirth, But There Is That Bliss After my first darling was born, I think I went into a form of emotional shock. I was convinced I would have to have years of therapy before I could ever have another child....

When Avilynne Turned Five (And Others Didn’t)

by Elisa | Aug 20, 2012 | Art of Advocacy, Children-in-Need, Create Awareness, Global Health, Poverty | 0 |

Avilynne Achieved the Awesome Age of Five! Yesterday my daughter, Avi,turned five years old. She had a birthday party, but because a 20% chance of precipitation is such a very high likelihood, we got rained out before the party...

Action: Blogust (Where Your Words Are Worth $20 to a Kid)

by Elisa | Aug 14, 2012 | Children-in-Need, Global Health, Good Charities | 0 |

Comments: Easy Button Activism Have you ever raised $300 for charity by pretty much doing nothing? In the first 1/2 of Blogust you could raise that much money. And, as the month of August is only 1/2 way through, you can raise...

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

by Elisa | Nov 15, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Poverty, United States | 1 |

The author of this guest post is Katie, who believes that she has experienced grace by knowing...

Book Review: Fast Living

by Elisa | Nov 5, 2011 | Ethical Fashion, Fair Trade Products, Good Charities, Poverty, Women's Empowerment | 4 |

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...

Art of Advocacy: Where You Are Planted

by Elisa | Oct 27, 2011 | Art of Advocacy, Good Charities, Spiritual Discipleship | 1 |

Where You Are Planted Do you ever read about someone doing something so awesome, or extraordinary, and then think to yourself…what am I doing with my life? I felt that way when I read about Katie Davis. At the age of...

Parents and Advocacy: Teaching Children to Celebrate Diversity

by Elisa | Sep 22, 2011 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Art of Advocacy, Community, United States | 0 |

Maybe its no surprise, but I was one of those kids whose parents thrust them into multicultural settings, hoping that I would think it was normal. I guess it worked. Racism is actually very hard for me to grasp, although I think...

Hoops of Hope

by Elisa | Aug 25, 2011 | Global Health, Good Charities, Ways to Make a Difference | 1 |

One of the things we like most at the Average Advocate is when we hear a great story of an average person who begins to care then act, even when they don’t really know how to make a difference. This one kid, Austin...

Kefilwe’s Story: A Girl With HIV (For World AIDS Day)

by Elisa | Dec 5, 2010 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Global Health, Poverty | 1 |

“My momma’s got AIDS” the little girl whispered. It was one of those whispers that is so quiet that it knocks your breath away, like a sonic boom. Her skin was like copper, hardened, darkened, but smoother than silk. She had a pock-mark on the corner of her forehead, near where her coarse, black hair began to embrace her head. I couldn’t help but think that she looked beautiful.

Soundtracks: Changing the World in Humility

by Elisa | Oct 18, 2010 | Art of Advocacy, Spiritual Discipleship | 0 |

Sometimes I am pretty sure the only reason our lives are so dull is because we don’t have the appropriate music playing in the background constantly. I am convinced my life would be amazing as any Oscar-winning movie if some D.J. in the sky always had a perfect soundtrack going for me.