Small People, Big Vision

From "Letters From Kamp Krusty"

I was in this hotel suite, where they were having this reception for some leaders from African governments. The suite had one of those lunchmeat-n-crackers-type spreads out. It was pretty good. It is kinda hard to fold the meat right to fit the cracker sometimes.
Anyway, I overheard this one lady, who was going from Government Leader Guy to Government Leader Guy, explaining what God told her to do, which was to save the world. That was her mandate, and she told them she was going to start with Africa. She had a Big Vision, and she was going to do this and that, and then this other thing, and then this would happen, and she had it pretty much mapped out. It was awesome.
I like people who can rescue everybody, so I thought to myself, "That's cool," and then noticed they had those fancy Pepperidge Farm cookie-stix things. She moved on to the next guy, and talked a lot again about what she was fixing to do. She has some big plans that involve her doing some significant stuff. Pretty neat.
It was lunchtime, so I made my way to this big lunch area downstairs, where they had some more crackers on each table. The lunch organizers arranged a couple speakers, this young married couple. The guy never spoke, actually. His wife said he was more of the computer-nerd type, and she was nervous, but she'd talk since they asked.
She is a Jesus-follower who went to Africa (Africa, again?) awhile back for a few weeks. She made some friends there who didn't have much of anything. She came back, and asked God to help her help them. So she and her husband scanned their wedding list into their computer, and asked those folks to loan their African friends some money.
She didn't know what else to do. She was heartbroken for a few families, and she knew God loved them. She had no Big Vision, just love for a few people she knew, so they could start businesses and have some way to live.
Her husband set up a website so their wedding friends could loan the money and make contact with the people they were giving to. God blessed it.
It's now called kiva.org.
So far, 30,000 businesses -- families and communities! -- have profited from it. She says they didn't know what they were doing -- they just loved a few people. She doesn't understand how this happened, except she thinks God made it happen.

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