Welcome 2012!

Most of us are taking time to reflect on the old year and to decide what we want to accomplish in the new year. For a lighter post, we’ve put together a list of 8 things that anyone can do to help fight world poverty! So here we go:

1.) Find a ministry that you are passionate about and commit to either praying for that ministry or writing them letters of support.

2.) Learn about a world problem—slavery for example– and start reading about it and tell your friends what you’re learning.

3.) Gather a group of your favorite people and challenge yourselves to see how much you can accomplish as a group using only your talents to raise funds or help a specific ministry.

4.) Use your blog to fight poverty. Visit our blog page www.blogger.mediachange.org to sign up and learn more.

5.) Dedicate one Facebook / Twitter post a week for raising awareness about world poverty. (We welcome you reposting one of ours!)

6.) Clean out your clutter—recycle and sell extra goods and use the money to benefit a ministry.

7.) Volunteer your time—there’s lot of work that can be done at non-profits, churches and soup kitchen.

8.) You knew this one was coming—but there’s a reason we chose $10 a month as our suggested donation, we wanted everybody to be able to participate.

So there’s our list. I hope that this year you’ll take some time to make some intentional decisions about how you serve others in 2012. Small changes and small steps and yield huge changes.