If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

We were both very moved by the ending of the movie "Schindler's List" where the lead character realizes how much more he could have done to save people. At the end of our lives, we want to know we really gave God everything we had to reach others for Jesus. We want to save them from their immediate needs of hunger and shelter and preach the Good News of Jesus.

The Lord has blessed us and we now live a comfortable life in Canada. We are not rich by any standard in our country. However, our wealth is significant if applied to a country like Uganda. 

There, we CAN make a difference...to a few. We will give what we have, to help who we can, all to God's glory.

Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before he began his work. Early one morning, he was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and found the vast beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in both directions. 

Off in the distance, the old man noticed a small boy approaching.  As the boy walked, he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that he was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea.  The boy came closer still and the man called out, “Good morning!  May I ask what it is that you are doing?”

The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”

The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”

The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”

Have a question or want to learn more about how you can get involved in our goal? Contact us today at scott@sciu.ca