Korah: A repost

Our friends the Nordstroms are adopting from Ethiopia and have a blog, too.
They posted about Korah today and I'm reposting here on our blog because it is so so powerful and moving.
http://nordstromsadopt.blogspot.com/2010/08/korah.html

Korah is a community outside of Addis Ababa where the outcasts of society live.  (Read more about Korah by clicking here.)  Korah is located at the Addis trash dump.  The outcasts who live there are the lepers, the poor, the orphans, and the widows.  When you stop to think of what a trash dump must be like in a 3rd world country, it is staggering.  And to think of people living there, trying to have their physical needs met by what they can scavenge day after day, it is difficult to contemplate. 

The videos included below are both about Korah.  They both show the sobering need among these people.  They also raise a lot of questions.  How can we meet the needs of so many people?  What about their spiritual needs too?  Do we just try and meet their physical needs first, then work towards meeting their spiritual needs?   How do we balance all of this?  What would Jesus do?  What does Jesus want us to do?  These are the questions that roll around in our minds.



Ordinary Hero~ A day in the trash dump in Ethiopia from Kelly Putty on Vimeo.

HT: R Nordstrom