I'm a World Vision artist.

True religion is this: that we look after the orphan and the widow in their distress... James 1:27

World Vision is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty. Sponsorship provides resources which go into a program, usually 10 to 15 years in length, custom-designed in collaboration with community leaders to address key spiritual and physical needs in the community. Programs are child-focused but also benefit non-sponsored children and families. I've seen it first-hand - it works.

Sponsor a child and begin to help make everything sad come untrue by being part of God's redemptive plan for their life

For years, serving the poor has been regarded as a matter of charity. In recent history Bono of U2 and others have helped us to understand it as a matter of justice and equality. In this song, I'm suggesting that service to the poor is also a matter of worship.

If one of the chief goals of worship is to bring God pleasure, and if Jesus tells us that the care we give to the poor is received by him, then our understanding of worship can be invigorated and transformed as we begin to understand that our care for the least of these is a vital component of the worship we are called and privileged to offer.