ACTIVISM

The fullest life leads us toward concern for others and a deeper connection to something beyond ourselves. What really matters - if we are people of faith - are lives of love and service. "Ubuntu" is an African idea that means I am a human being because I belong. I participate. I share. I cannot be who I am meant to be without other people. As Christians, we are to act in such a way that the nature of God becomes visible. As a band we support several charitable organizations by tithing from our proceeds and by participating in their work.

Philippines Flood Video (big 90 Mb wmv file) by Olma Garibay, music by Johnathan and Tiffany Sherman

ALS Association - Fighting Lou Gehrig's Disease

Bergton/Criders Community Ministry Food Pantry - Providing assistance in our home community

Individually we also support and participate in other organizations including:

Compassion - Sponsor a needy child

The ONE Campaign - Join the fight against extreme poverty

Amnesty International - Working to protect human rights

Data - Debt Aids Trade Africa

(RED) - Fight Aids in Africa

Music Rising - Preserve the musical culture of the central gulf

Save Darfur - Intervention in the Darfur conflict

United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (UMVIM) - Christian love in action

Edun - Fashion with a mission to drive sustainable employment in developing economies

Thoughts :

Bishop Desmond Tutu says that "God calls on us to be his partners to work for a new kind of society where people count; where people matter more than things, more than possessions; where human life is not just respected but positively revered; where people will be secure and not suffer from the fear of hunger, from ignorance, from disease; where there will be more gentleness, more caring, more sharing, more compassion, more laughter, where there is peace and not war."