Jay Bakker, the son of PTL founders Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, is still stirring up controversy. This time back in his home state of North Carolina. Yesterday, he participated in the Pride festival and parade at Duke University and was the honored guest at a reception last night in Raleigh. Bakker established Revolution Church in 1994 in Arizona in an attempt to reach people that have basically been snubbed by “the church.” Much like he was at the height of his parents collapse. The question is, was participating in the Pride march helpful or harmful to Christianity?
It amazing what can happen when you actually SEE the world. Former “Amazing Race” contestant, Blake Mycoskie, discovered this as he was traveling through Argentina. After witnessing the countless amounts of children without shoes in all of the villages plagued with poverty, he came up with the simple idea that is TOMSHOES. For every pair of shoes bought, a pair will be given to one of these children. Check out the video below to get a better idea.
Sometimes it seems that nothing would make a difference to communities like this. What Mycoskie has proven is that even the most simple of ideas can make a WORLD of difference. You just have to get off your butt and act on them. Thank you Blake for answering that age-old excuse, I mean question “What can I do about it?”
Please visit TomShoes.com to get their full story of just how much they’re making a difference.
I’m not a big fan of televangelists. From Pat Robertson praying for Hurricanes to miss his hometown, (so it will hit someone else’.) To Rod Parsley telling me to send him $2008, not for any specific need, but because God wants to bless me. To the morons that will probably appear in Bill Maher’s new movie “Religulous” parading around, spouting less than intellectual truth(?) No wonder so many think we’re just a bunch of hayseed rednecks. And then there’s the man from Madras.