Living Like A Champion- Kelly Clark

From Bangledesh...with regret

I just got this email:

I regret to inform you that I've just gottn a spot of vomit on my treasured BK2 shirt. I think it'll come out, we shall see!

Don't know what I ate here in Bangladesh but it wasn't good for me...

I'll be ok...:-)

Matt

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Matt Wilkie is a great friend and a great Convoy of Hope missionary. He wears The Original Burger King shirt from Mattoon, IL all over the world. And he has pics to prove it.

I guess the shirt now has some battle scars...now that a Bangladesh meal didn't like Matt.

Meet Matt Here

Here's Matt with Karl Rove in an airport.

He blogged about this story here.

SOLD

It was a total impromptu purchase in the San Pedro Sula, Honduras Airport.

It wasn't a flag, hat, soccer jersey, or machete. It was a book in a tiny airport bookstore.

And it was about a girl named Lakshmi from Nepal. And it was called, Sold.

"Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like raising her black-and-white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family’s crops, Lakshmi’s stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family."

My heart was gripped on every page I read. I finished the entire book on the plane.

I knew it existed. But I never read it in a free-verse, journal-like perspective as I did that day.

The sex slave industry is haunting. It's brutal. It's very real.

1 million – Number of children exploited by the global commercial sex trade, every year.

Read Sold.

Discuss it.

Pass it along.

Then realize we live in a world full of opportunities where we need to step in and make an impact in someone's life.

Acoustic Rock for Haiti

Let's raise some money for Haiti!

Let's listen to some great local musicians.

Let's drink some great coffee.

Check out the Facebook event site.

Thanks for giving toward Haiti

Thank you to all the people who gave to Haiti as part of my Facebook birthday wish.
You can still give through my Facebook birthday wish.

The link is HERE

All funds will be used by Convoy of Hope who has disaster relief teams on the ground now in Haiti.

Full-page coverage in the news

The Fields Church at Common Grounds made full-page coverage in a feature's section of The Journal Gazette. The feature's section is not available online, so here's an overview look at the coverage.

We meet every Saturday at 7:07PM at Common Grounds in Mattoon.

RIP Villa Pizza

photo By:Jim Filipiak

My favorite pizza place in Mattoon burnt down late last night.

Crazy fire in single-digit temperatures.