Inner City vs Suburbia

I've been pondering the whole 'inner city' Salvation Army thing recently. And I've decided that maybe I've gone as far as I can go by myself... maybe I need some input! So I'm adding this post to StreetWar instead of my personal blog. Partly because this blog gets more traffic... and partly because I think it's a worldwide issue.

Perhaps Australia is unique. But over the years, our 'dodgy suburbs' are becoming - more and more - 'yuppy suburbs'. While they still contain a number of homeless people, drug addicts, etc... the people who we'd class as 'disadvantaged' (ie. having incredibly difficult lives, high family violence rates, kids classed as 'high risk')? They're out in the suburbs. Here in Brisbane we have a particular grouping of 3-4 suburbs a way out of the city where no-one in their right mind tries to live. Only those with no money to live elsewhere get stuck there. I'd be far happier wandering the inner-city streets at night than those suburbs. So I'm wondering... if I join the current SA trend and try to move into the inner-city... am I moving AWAY from where God's heart really is?

New Blog

Check out one of the newest additions to the Salvation Army blogworld - Shika Mkono. It's about Human Rights violations worldwide... and what we can do about it. I think God might just do some great stuff through this blog.

Hop on over and give a blog-newbie some encouragement!