End Extreme Poverty in 2005?
Check out the editorial on poverty from Christianity Today written last week. It quotes Jason Fileta, a recent Calvin College graduate and fantastic BFW activist.
Bring on the white wristbands, the rock concerts, and the Brad Pitt commercials. Bring on the new generation of Christians who support social justice.
One of them is Jason Fileta, who headed the Social Justice Coalition at Calvin College until he graduated in May. Bread for the World chose Fileta to attend the G-8 Summit as part of an American delegation. This fall, Fileta will begin working for the Christian Reformed Church's Office of Social Justice and Hunger Action and promote the Micah Challenge, a Christian campaign to, more modestly, "halve absolute global poverty by 2015."
So Fileta believes in ending poverty. He lives it and breathes it. It's a natural outgrowth of his faith. But in light of his passion, does he believe we can end poverty as soon as some celebrities and Sachs say we can?
Jason led Calvin's Social Justice Coalition, which held weekly letter writing sessions for all students interested - they wrote letters on various social justice themes including BFW's legislative campaign. The Coalition last May was awarded student organization of the year at Calvin and best event of the year at their schools Presidential banquet! Calvin students signed up over 400 people for the ONE Campaign raised $1000 for BFW and wrote 75 letters on BFW’s Make Hunger History campaign. It's nice to see BFW student activists (or recently graduated student activists in this case), ONE and poverty getting publicized in influential Christian magazines.
Hat tip to Adam Phillips of Promenade.
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