The Justice Mission - IDT Track, Final Paper (please read)

Hilary Clark
The Justice Mission
IDT 2006
26 July 2006

The Number One Way Hilary Clark Can Help Fight Injustice

Throughout this track, what I saw, read, or heard about simply broke my heart. However, when I prayed about it, what God impressed upon my heart wasn't what I had in mind. It wasn't "give lots and lots of money to help release children" or "I want you to go right now to Uganda, Congo, or Darfur." It was "research injustice until I send you to the place I want you to go." I do believe that this track has helped open my eyes to see the crime going on around us. It makes me very thankful that God has blessed America with the safety, security, and hope that we have. On the other hand, it made me realize how selfish most of us are, to think that we can do little to help the massive discrimination going on in other countries, to consider that just because it is not here that it doesn't exist, or to be so insensitive that once we hear about it, we forget it and go on about ourselves, and finish "eating our dinners" as quoted in the movie Hotel Rwanda.

This is where I would like to step in. I feel it is my call to duty as impressed by God, for now, to research and make the news known. There is injustice going on in the world, and I will be the one to let people know that. I want people to know what is going on in their "living quarters," the planet that they live on. More so, I want people to want to do something about it and I want to give someone a place (or organization) to learn how. In that place, I want to give them the truth of what is going on, not the Americanized, over-exaggerated "T.V. news pressroom" point of view. Similar to IJM, my vision is to create somewhat of an organization that others can get involved with to help make a difference towards injustice. My hopes are that it will be just as great as IJM, possibly sending students to certain places of injustice, or much like The Invisible Children, with wristbands and videos to help us remember to pray or keep updated with the news. It would be completely volunteer work, so there will be no obligation to join or give money. I'm extremely excited to attempt to begin this, as I feel it would be a gigantic step for NXT. If certain events in other countries lighten up a bit, we could even possibly send a missions team to one of these places, eventually.

When I was given this project, I had mixed feelings. Just like when I was told about many of these injustices, so many ideas and concepts and plans and this and that were swimming around in my head, it was overwhelming! Then, I thought, "Man, there is no way I'm going to be able to pick just one example from the 31 I was given, and then set up a project about it!" That was what my mindset was until I actually sat down and typed "news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world" into my address bar. Then it was, "Whoa, do I have to pick one country?!" Well, I didn't. I just wrote. I wrote my thoughts, my feelings, and my reasons. I know that I am called to be a missionary some day, and this paper isn't even the tip of the iceberg. It's just one and a half pages with a slight proposal of what I could do to fight injustice. It's the mere beginning. And with it, I ask for accountability. I ask for my track leaders to ask me about the development, to call me and see if I'm working on the organization of this, to bug me and bother me until I am irritated to get this proposal going. My number one way to fight injustice isn't to just pray, research, and tell people. It's to develop a well thought-out program that we can begin in our youth group together to involve everyone in our fight for justice.

~*~*~*~*~*~* :: FiN :: *~*~*~*~*~*~

What do you think? Is it worth reading? I think it's barely satisfactory, but sure, I like it.

On life::

'Tis good, 'tis good.
I wish that my back, which was weirded out by some uknown thing, would stop throbbing.
It hurts really badly. But that's about it in terms of bad things. Josh is wonderful, I could not ask for a better boyfriend and if something were to happen to us, I don't think I could ever love or date anyone again. Never could top his love, besides Jesus'. Man, I love him.

And that's that.