Touching The Rainbow Ground

The ideas in this book may be hazardous to your health! “When I feed hungry children they call me a saint. When I ask ‘Why are children hungry’ they call me a communist” said Brazilian Bishop Dom Helder Camara. Bringing change to the world is a risky business. In his memoir visionary missionary and award-winning videographer Paul Weiss describes learning that feeding poor hungry children would alienate friends and family and find even less welcome among those whose power and wealth kept children poor.When 18000 children die from poverty every day the result is profound hopelessness. Creating hope the author believes is how we begin to end this human tragedy.The 8 Steps To Hope slowly became clear as he traveled from his affluent hometown of Santa Barbara to a leper colony in the Philippines and the streets of Manila then to indígena children in Guatemala and later to the ghettos of Washington DC. Decades of rescuing orphanages in Tijuana and reaching out to families living in the city’s garbage dump proved that hope could be created by anyone willing to accept the risks of acting (Step 6) and act (Step 8). This book is a life plan for dreamers and activists on how to create hope and realize their dreams of creating a better world. It’s risky business but the payoff for the 18000 children who die from poverty every day is life itself and for the world redemption.