Mike Mennard-A Charitable Minstrel by Jonathan Watts Mike Mennard, a writer and editor at the public relations office, is at home in many environments. When he's not typing insightful feature articles and dreaming up goofy advertisments in his cell-sized cubical at the rear of the public relations office, Mike is on the road with his guitar, cheering up senior citizens, performing in churches, and raising money for needy people around the world. Working half-time at the public relations office gives Mike time for his music, and he uses every moment he can get. He did 120 concerts in six states and Canada in the last year and a half. Mike is a Christian songwriter as well as a singer, and his weekend concerts generally feature songs which he has written himself.
People are more interesting than concepts.
Mike's interest in people has led him to promote World Vision, the world's largest Christian relief organization and highest-rated private charity. The biggest reason that 800 million people go to bed hungry every night is not that people don't give. It's that the money and food do not make it to the people who need it. The neat thing about World Vision is that it helps needy people and poor cities become self-sufficient. Everyone who works on one of its projects is a local, so American relief workers are not needed to keep the projects running after they are completed.