"Race Against Time" by Stephen Lewis. "I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, humanitarian Stephen Lewis begins his personal, often searing insider's account of Africa's plight and the wealthy world's betrayal. Lewis recounts how in 2000, global leaders agreed to eight Millennium Development Goals, promising the poor such essentials as primary education, basic health and a reversal of AIDS by 2015. In audacious prose, alive with anecdotes ranging from maddening to hilarious to heart-breaking, Lewis shows why and how the promises can't be kept. Race Against Time probes the appalling gap between vision and current reality, but also offers bracingly attainable solutions.


"Irresistable Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical"  Author Shane Cliborne invites you into a movement of the Spirit that begins in the heart and extends through our hands into a broken world. This book will challenge you to live out an authentic Christian faith, will comfort the disturbed, disturb the comfortable and invite  believers to change the world with Christ's radical love.

For Kids: "If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World's People"  Author David J. Smith invites young readers to imagine the world as a village of just 100 people. How many of its 100 villagers get enough to eat? How many children can afford to go to school? Smith brings global statistics down to size, enabling children to visualize the differences between the world's haves and have-nots. (ages 6-10)

For Kids: "Ryan and Jimmy and the Well in Africa that Brought Them Together"  Author Herb Shoveller tells the story of  six year old Ryan Hreljac who raised money to build a well to supply safe, clean water in Africa, the village this well changed, and of a young orphan named Akana Jimmy  who longed for a chance to thank Ryan in person. A true story of friendship and compassion  in which a simple wish to help others brings focus to the necessities that unite us all. (ages 8-11)