Where does the name come from?
Our name comes from the Message translation of the Bible. It was further inspired from a passage of Max Lucado's book "Cure for the Common Life."
If you are not a Christian please don't be scared off by this. I don't consider this to be a Christian organization and I don't believe you have to be a Christian to love and help people. This is another one of the problems that keep people from making a difference. In order to truly change the world it will take all of us.
On the other hand, if you are a Christian and you aren't loving and helping people at every opportunity then you must reconsider what it means to live and love like Jesus.
This is one of my favorite quotes from Steve Brown:
"When a Christian sees someone who is physically hungry, a Christian feeds the hungry person. Why? Because hungry people can't understand the plan of salvation? No. Simply because that person is hungry. That's what Christians do. And if a person is spiritually hungry, a Christian becomes 'one beggar telling another beggar where he or she found bread.' Why? Because that's what Christians do."
Matthew 25:37-40 (The Message)
"When did we ever see you hungry and feed you, thirsty and give you a drink? And when did we ever see you sick or in prison and come to you?? Then the King will say, 'Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me - you did it to me."
From Max Lucado's Cure For The Common Life
"Love the overlooked."
Jesus sits in your classroom, wearing the thick glasses, outdated clothing, and a sad face. You've seen him. He's Jesus.
Jesus works in your office. Pregnant again, she shows up to work late and tired. No one knows the father. According to water-cooler rumors, even she doesn't know the father. You've seen her. She's Jesus.
When you talk to the lonely student, befriend the weary mom, you love Jesus. He dresses in the garb of the overlooked and ignored.
You can do that.
Even if your sweet spot has nothing to do with encouraging others, the cure for the common life involves loving the overlooked."