Fighting Poverty with Marriage

I found a cool article on the St. Louis Today website about a Pastor who is fighting poverty by teaching and preparing neighborhood young adults about the values of marriage. He is fighting with a mission to help the African American population, who is suffering from the lowest marriage rates. There are so many single families out there, because of people having babies who should not. Check out a clip of the article below:

With African-American marriage rates registering well below those of other
races and fears that too many of its young are being lost to poverty and crime,
not the altar, they have come to Crumpton to learn how to find and love the
right person forever. Last year, two St. Louis nonprofits, Better Family Life
and St. Louis Healthy Marriage Coalition, were awarded more than $11 million in
grants from the federal Healthy Marriage Initiative to build a rank of marriage
educators such as Crumpton to conduct ongoing courses on healthy relationships.
The courses are targeted at residents of the city and poor, inner-ring
suburbs.

Click here for the full article. There are many ways to fight poverty. All it takes is someone with a mission, and a desire to make it happen. Please support your local nonprofits helping in your local communities. All of us nonprofits need your support. There are many ways you can help. You can volunteer, talk to your friends and family about local organizations, and donate funds. Every organization needs financial support to help them accomplish their mission. If everyone person gave a little bit of their time, funds, and energy to local nonprofit organizations, we can help make the world a better place for everyone! Poverty is the root to many of the World’s challenges such as, disease, cancer, obesity, illiteracy, domestic violence, homelessness, and many other challenges people all over the world face every day. You can make a difference! Don’t make it your mission to fight poverty in 2008. There are still 12 days left in 2007 to make a difference! Start today helping serve others, and living a life with a purpose!

“To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success” – Henry Ford

Chris G.
Rock for Hunger