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Name: jordan
Location: Savannah, Georgia, United States
Birthday: 4/12/1989
Gender: Female
Interests: Jesusizzle, my family and my beautiful sister, my extended family (AKA smallgroup- what up Unleaded!!), painting, drawing, creativity in general, old movies, Savannah Georgia.... I could go on.
Occupation: Government
Industry: Research
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  jorddi44
Member Since:
5/19/2005
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| Let’s Make Some Noise:
Imagine you are a woman. You are hard- working, family-oriented, and happy. You have a loving husband and three beautiful children. Life is good. Then one morning, shortly before dawn, you are startled awake by gunshots and the panicked screams of men and women all around you.
Now, fast-forward twenty-four hours. Two of your children have been shot and killed, the other thrown into a fire and burned alive. Your husband has been killed - decapitated right in front of your eyes. You attempt to escape, but you are caught and taken with hundreds of other women to be gang raped, mutilated, and humiliated before being driven into the desert, far from your village, cut off from food, water, and any source of life. You find yourself joining hundreds of thousands of others just like yourself - wounded, hungry, and displaced from their homes.
Dead bodies have been thrown into the wells to poison the water supply that is so essential to your survival. The little livestock you have to live on must to be cooked in order to feed everyone, but in order to gather firewood you must leave the camp and risk almost certain rape.
Should you stay and slowly starve with the others around you, or should you leave the camp, risking your life daily in order to barely stay alive? You could go to the government or the police, but these are the same men who have put you here in the first place, the same men who killed your family. There is no safe place to turn.
How can something like this be happening in America? Simple - it isn’t. But it is happening in Africa. The people of Darfur, Sudan have been facing these conditions under the rule of a corrupt government for years, simply because they are a non-Arab people. They are the victims of a mass genocide that is taking place today, right now, in front of our eyes, if we would only look to see it.
People are being brutally killed, raped, and displaced from their homes by the tens of thousands. Various rebel groups against the government have formed to fight back, but they have been severely outnumbered and forced into submission. The government’s army is made up primarily of Darfurian men who have been captured and forced to fight against and kill their own people.
There is no question that the Darfurians need our help. The question we need to be asking is …what can we do to help? We can try to bring aid to these people - food, water, and other necessities. However, the Sudanese government is blocking most humanitarian aid from entering the country, using the excuse that it is a security threat. This is not internal conflict; it is brutal ethnic cleansing.
We can try to help the thousands of people who are starving, injured, and displaced - and we must take action now to prevent another person from being starved, injured, and displaced.
There’s only one way, and that is if our government takes action. The Bush administration has been trying to organize a peace treaty between northern and southern Sudan. Unfortunately, past treaties have proven to be useless pieces of paper, disregarded by the government as soon as they were made.
Our country needs to take action against the genocide in Darfur - real action. The only way this will happen is if the American people cry out, and continue to cry out until something is done.
The U.S. government is aware of the issue, but our citizens are allowing them to ignore it. If enough people stand up and make themselves heard, the leaders of our country will be forced to act, and countless lives will be saved.
Are you moved? Good. Angry? You should be. But sympathy alone will not change this situation, and feelings of anger will not save these people.
Fortunately, there is good news as well. More and more people are becoming aware of the mass atrocities that are being committed in Darfur and are making the decision to do something to stop them. You can do something as well.
Join the movement today, by writing a letter to your congressmen urging them to put a stop to the genocide in Darfur. Or simply go to www.enoughproject.org and email your concerns to our political leaders. If enough people speak out, our government will be forced to make this massive crime against humanity a top priority. They will be forced to take action.
Could the Holocaust have been prevented had more people known about it and spoken out? Maybe. What about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that took over 800,000 innocent lives?
Please do not let Darfur be added to the list of tragedies that could have been avoided. Do not remain silent. Do not allow genocide to continue. Let’s prove that we are not a nation that will stand by and watch as something like this occurs. Let’s make some noise.
If you would like to do even more to help, go to www.enoughproject.org to get informed, speak out to our nation’s key leaders, or make a contribution.
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| I don't know if anyone even reads this anymore, but I have a request for you all. I need your help. In 3 months I will be going on a missions trip to Nepal. I've gone once before, and since my last trip God has grown my heart for these people and this cause in HUGE ways. I want to go in order to help people. These people need love and medicine and love and food and LOVE. In order to go I will need to raise around $4,000 completely on my own. So what I need is for you guys to pray- A LOT. I have complete faith that God will provide and that He is more than able to make something out of nothing (think bread and fish). So please be praying- as much as you can remember to. I need prayer not only for financial support, but that God will prepare my heart for the work He's going to have me do. I know how God responds to prayer. Thank you so so much! And feel free to copy this or send it to people- the more prayers the better!
James 5:16 --> The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. | | |
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The Holiday
By Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach, Rufus Sewell, Edward Burns, Nobel Chen, Adam Richman (II), Steven Bruns, Emma Pritchard, Ed Aristone, Jon Prescott, Ryan Van Denburgh, Christina Leigh, Miffy Englefield, Lydia Blanco, Shannyn Sossamon, Nikki Novak, Meena Kumari (III)
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So I've figured out what I'm going to do with the rest of my life....... kind of. I've figured out that I don't have it all figured out right now, and that's okay. I realize now that the plans I have for myself aren't necessarily going to happen right away or in the way I expect them to. (Patience Jordan.) I have this idea of the kind of person I want to be and the kind of things I want to do with my life. But I can't sit around and wait until circumstances fall into place for me to start being that person. I want to start loving people right now- everyone. Because it's not just the starving or the poor or the homeless that need compassion. It's just not always as obvious in the people we see every day. Sometimes lately I feel like all I'm doing is messing up, getting things wrong. I'm not the person I want to be yet. But God doesn't look for perfect people, He looks for willing people. If you have a minute, pray that God will use me to love, and that what He wants for me and what i want for me will line up. | | |
| I can never make things easy on myself. I'm confused. I don't want to make a decision right now. I don't expect you to comment on this post, because it probably makes no sense to you. I won't stop you if you really want to though. | | |
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