A Powerful Prayer

(Just a snippett of a new poem called "A Powerful Prayer"... you'll have to come to our next event to see the whole thing... we'll let you know when that is:)

If you've seen

The poverty of the poor

Or the petitions of the powerless

Don’t. hold. Back. Your.

Prayers.

Just because you don't seem to have the

Time.

Cause maybe

Just possibly

Maybe the poor are

Just one prayer away

And maybe the past is just

One prayer away

And maybe the imprisoned are just one prayer away

One prayer away

From freedom.

So look at your clock

a'tickin'

Look at the time

a'going

Look at the world around you

a'moving

But when you look- is it moving enough?

Does this clock represent

Something more than spent time and spent cents?

Does it wreak of something particularly prayerful?

can't wait to see you all at the next event! let us know what you think! and if you want us to come to your church, email us at odetotheforgotten@yahoo.com

love!

Looking for a picture!

So we are looking for a picture to put on the front of a postcard we are making... and we need your help! This postcard will be a general information postcard about what Ode to the Forgotten is and how people can get involved.

Likewise, the picture could be of anything that relates to an emotional or physical poverty, or just a nice background picture (brick, dilapidated wood, whatever catches your eye really... :) Send it in and we'll see what we get and put one on the post card! We'd love to have all the pictures in to choose from by October 20th so we can get these cards out into the world to tell people about Ode!

Thanks for your help and if you have any questions or need further explanation, feel free to email us at odetotheforgotten@yahoo.com

Grace and Peace,
Sarah and Amyra

ODE is on the Northview blog!!! PTL!

So an awesome woman named Robyn Rickel attended the Ode event and wrote a blog about Ode and it's founding for the Northview Church blog! Here's a snippet:
"The Ode to the Forgotten team is writing a completely comprised of submissions from people like you. They want everyone to participate; you don’t have to be a C.S. Lewis to submit. They believe all writings are amazing and have a purpose....It can be about how you thought of poverty before and after you started serving, how serving has changed your life or anything else you want to express. 
 beautiful wording:)

to read the rest, go to:
http://thenorthviewblog.us/2010/09/13/serving-brings-darkness-to-light/

praise the Lord for spreading the news!