Spirituality & Practice calls Our Day to End Poverty a, "Handy and Helpful Volume"

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat at Spirituality & Practice recently reviewed Our Day to End Poverty, and offered it to readers of their site as a great way to promote Justice and to connect their daily lives to the UN Millennium Development goals.

Like Fredric and Mary Ann, we encourage you to, "act now on the treasure trove of information described in this paperback."

Jeffrey Keenan discusses Our Day at Freemont Place Books in Seattle

Jeff joined a group of readers at Freemont Place Books to discuss the book and talk about their interest in ending poverty.

Money. Purpose. Joy. offers Our Day to End Poverty as a Resource

Matt Bell is a personal finance writer and speaker who leads workshops designed to help people manage their money in ways that help give their lives meaning. His website, Money. Purpose. Joy. documents his work and collects various resources. Matt offers Our Day to End Poverty as recommended reading and asks his readers the following question:

"Did you do anything to help eliminate poverty today? It's a ridiculous question, isn't it?"

Our Day in Dallas and the Raiser's Razor

Central Dallas Ministries has responded very positively to Our Day to End Poverty. They decided that the book aligns so well with their work, that they are ordering copies to give to their sponsors at a their annual, "A Night to Remember" concert event featuring LeAnn Rimes this fall. Jeremy Gregg, Director of Development for CDM, discusses their decision on his blog, Riaser's Razor here.

Our Day is embraced by local parishes in Vermont

Using the “Guide for Places of Worship” at the end of Our Day to End Poverty, parishes in Vermont, and around the U.S. are finding it a useful resource for classes, discussion groups, forums, and mission outreach, locally and abroad. Christ Church, Bethel, VT under the leadership of The Rev. Diane Root, arranged for every family in the parish to have a copy of the book. Throughout the summer, parishioners speak from their own perspectives on various global as well as local poverty issues at the Offertory time in a worship feature called “Poverty-Plenty Moments.” Conversation groups then meet following the service to further the particular emphasis of that Sunday. A film series-discussion will be hosted in various homes later in the fall to share individual actions taken as well as to decide which actions to take as a group.

St. John’s in Randolph, VT has also provided twenty copies of the book for people to use in a series of forums coming up later this year around the topic of “Water” (Chapter 22: Improve Access to Clean Water). According to The Rev. Tim Eberhardt, “Many of our parishioners are closely involved with Randolph’s “Clean Source”, formerly “Vermont Pure” water purification and bottling plant. We want to involve local government officials and others to explore how we consume water, our plastic bottle usage, as well as what clean water means to Vermonters. And our local students will be invited to enter a writing contest around the issues of water and poverty.” St. John’s began seriously looking at poverty issues as their Lenten focus this year, and were introduced to the book even before it published. They decided which organizations would receive a portion of their Easter Offering ($800) in a very unique way. At Pentecost, they voted by placing 800 pennies into labeled six containers. The result, in descending order: Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (CHABHA), Medical volunteers on St. Lucia, ERD, Theological Education in Sudan (through Bishop Ely), Latin American Missionary and Bible Institute (LAMB) and Global Aids Interfaith Alliance (GAIA). In addition, individual St. John members have pledged to meet the target .07% of their income for global relief.

Our Day now available from Raincoast Books

Raincoast is a Canadian bookseller committed to being ancient forest friendly Our Day is available now from this nifty Vancouver based company.

Our Day for Sale in Iowa, Europe, The Middle East & Africa, Australia, New Zealand

Available for purchase through Vista Book Gallery, an independent full-service bookstore in Boise, Iowa.

Our Day is also now available for purchase through McGraw Hill Education Europe, Middle East & Africa, with a nice one-paragraph review highlighting the book's, "clever and creative approach."

Finally, Woodslane, Australia and New Zealand's premier distributor of technical, business and lifestyle books has a really wonderful short review and the book available for purchase. In a paragraph they sum up the positive spirit of the book and encourage their customers to do their part in ending poverty.