"According to several different resources, there are an average of 147 million orphaned children in the world today (this statistic includes children who have lost only one parent as well), 11 million children starve to death each year or die from preventable, treatable illness. 8.5 million children work as child slaves, prostitutes, or in other horrific conditions, 2.3 million children world wide are living with HIV.
That is 168.8 million needy children. Seems like a big number, huh? It shouldn't, because there are 2.1 BILLION people on this earth who profess to be Christians. Jesus followers. Servants. Gospel live-ers. And id only 8 percent of those Christians would care for just ONE of these needy children, they would all be taken care of." ~ www.kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com
What in the heck are we doing thinking about ourselves all the time? Just thought it was a good quote and something to think about.
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Devin did the math on that too and wound up with a similar number. It is completely nuts how easy it would be to stop this crisis. Actually... it is crazy how easy it would be to stop most problems like this (hunger, lack of clean water, etc). And yet...that would mean living on less and sharing more and sadly, most "Christians" aren't willing to do that.
I'm feeling overwhelmed. And sick to my stomach.
But still, one person at a time can make a huge difference.
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