Posted on 04/02/2008 8:36:30 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
CHESTERFIELD — A youth group from a suburban mega-church traveled to inner-city St. Louis for a ministry trip which confirmed their preconceptions about urban poverty.
"It’s even grosser than I thought down here," said Emma Fahe, 15, after performing in a human video. "I better not get a disease. I never want to come back, even for ministry."
"Why don’t people move out?" one boy wondered aloud as he picked up trash around the neighborhood. He was wearing arm-length rubber gloves, a clear visor and mask and using tongs. "I’m sorry I even know this place exists."
"Ick," said another girl as she handed out brown-bag lunches to homeless people. "What’s wrong with you? Don’t you ever shower?"
"Only when I can find a hose," said a man who gave his name as "Bart."
As the kids passed around bottles of Purell later, their youth pastor asked about the compassion they were feeling. One girl responded, "I feel compassion for myself for having to be here right now." Others murmured in agreement.
The youths said the trip gave them healthy appreciation for their "vastly nicer" lifestyles, and most vowed never to return, except to show their own children how bad life could get if they make poor choices.
"Our youth pastor was right," said one youth. "This trip really opened our eyes."
Filth isn’t caused by poverty. I don’t care how poor they are, they can be clean. The inner cities have more problems than ‘poverty’.
PLEASE tell me this is satire!
LOL...I know this is a Lark parody, but this is the kind of truthful response that a lot of teens would give their yoot leaders if they had the courage to buck the PC tide.
I spent a couple of weeks in Monrovia, Liberia back in February.
That is an example of poverty. The poorest of our poor have it better than the poor in Africa. I saw naked street people, whereas even our street people have clothes.
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