Love One Another

Tonight I had the privilege of seeing the Watoto Children's Choir perform. The group is comprised of Ugandan children who have lost at least one parent to HIV/AIDS.

The mission of Watoto is to raise the next generation of Ugandan leaders by placing parentless children in families where the necessary love, care, spiritual discipleship and physical needs are provided. Our goal is to equip these precious children with the essential moral values and life skills that will enable them to make a significant and lasting impact.

During the concert, someone read James 1:27 - "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."

And what do I think it means to be polluted by the world? Living with a laptop, cameras, an ipod, and more clothes, movies, cds, books, and junk that I'll ever need, while 2 million children live orphaned in Uganda alone. And thinking that it's ok.