I am exhausted!
It's been another long and challenging day here in Waco but instead of physically being challenged like we were yesterday when we had to be out all day in the farm, I was challenged in a very different way today - I was challenged to actually do something about hunger injustice in Texas. The gang and I went to visit the Texas Hunger Initiative at Baylor University
and they told us about poverty in America and we took a step back and looked at why Texas is still one of the top U.S. states suffering with hunger-related poverty; Who is to blame for this ongoing trial? Who is responsible? Who should fix it? The answer to each questions is 'myself, my community, my local city and state government representatives, and the federal government - everybody'. And we all have to work together in order to end hunger in Texas and we need to start by going to the people who live in hunger everyday, we need to get to know them and to care about them, we need to listen to them and get to know their stories - that's the best place to start and I feel like this is what we're going to set out to do on this trip. We've been on a farm working and getting to learn more about growing our own food and more about local farmers and farmers markets and about how important it is to actually know where your food came from, then we went to the Texas Hunger Initiative and go to see what they have been planning in order to help meet the needs of the hungry and get a behind-the-scenes look at all of the people that are teaming together in the effort to end the problem of hunger in Texas then we went to a local church in Waco and got to meet kids that are on the Texas summer feeding programs and the people who open up their doors and participate in feeding these people who otherwise wouldn't have anything to eat.
It's one thing to walk up to someone and tell them about Jesus - it's another to serve these people and build relationships with them and let them know that I and the rest of us here on this trip because of Jesus, because He first loved us and because He first served us; in our calling to be more like Christ I feel that there is no better way to show Christ's love to others than to serve them.

To learn more go to:
http://www.baylor.edu/texashunger/
http://www.worldhungerrelief.org/
http://netx.squaremeals.com/SNP/summerfood/index.html

-Sarah