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January 11, 2008

Jesse Reporting to Nepal

A guy that has become one of my good friends here in St. Louis will be boarding a plane tomorrow on his way to Kathmandu, Nepal. He will be working with 'Word Made Flesh,' an organization that is working to proserve dignity in human beings.

He'll be joining a group of people who run two homes, one for older people, mostly women, who have been abandoned by their families. The other home is for children, mostly girls, who have been left on the streets along the way. I can't imagine where Jesse's desire came from to go and work in an emotionally tough condition as this must be, but I know that his beliefs that our world should not be as it is was part of his motivation.
We've all been effected by the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, but I don't even realize a lot of the time how far gone the human race really is. The fact that there is a need for people to form a place that would provide the necessities such as food and shelter for those that can't care for themselves is evidence that we live in a harsh world. The fact that Jesse wants to go and be a servant for people in hurting conditions such as those he'll be caring for, and abandon a life of wealth as we have in this great nation of ours is incredible. Jesse, I'm proud to call you my friend. Thank you!

| By Nathan Gemayel | 4:21 PM

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