Thousands of people are headed to Washington D.C. next Saturday, November 17, to put pressure on 10 world leaders to create a definitive policy regarding the arrest and trial of Joseph Kony. My close friend Kelsey is a roadie for Invisible Children, the organization behind this event. She came to Buffalo recently with her team and I got an interesting glimpse of what true desperation for social change looks like. The four people that are a part of Kelsey's team care so much about stopping the Lord's Resistance Army and the atrocities that are being committed daily in Uganda, that they have committed to going for months without any pay, driving all day in a 15-passenger van, setting up for film screenings, sleeping on someone's couch, and repeating the whole process every day. Their deadline is next Saturday, and they're going non-stop until then to see how many people they can motivate to head to Washington.
It's intense, and awe-inspiring. There is a sense of urgency to their presentation, their speech, their energy, their movements. They firmly and completely believe in what they are doing. And they are doing it in the face of immense apathy, doubt and even hostility. They are a great model for what Christians should be doing all the time. Shouldn't it be the other way around?
