The spiritual before the social is the way it works.

We have it pretty good, even if we complain some, we fare better than the rest of the world. Over 1.1 billion people live on less than a dollar a day. 500 million people are hungry right now and another 500 million get too little to eat to be productive. Every day 25,000 people die of hunger, with many of them women, children and the elderly. Most of them perish not just because of food but dirty

drinking water. Add 35,000 children to deaths due to no health care or unchecked diseases. The camps are full. 47 million refugees and displaced people. Of the 27 countries that are in the greatest need, 20 are in Africa, 6 in Asia and the little western country of Haiti. The U.N. reports that 1 million children enter the trade of child prostitution every year. If the current trend continues, the Sub-Saharan African countries will increase from 25 million to 165 million in starvation.There are over 100 million street children in our world today but estimates of 800 million by 2020. Can you imagine how a loving Heavenly Father looks to these people? Oh, that's right, no one has told them about Christ love. Is this any of our business? I am afraid so, because when they cry out, God hears, touches us and we go to help. I watch with most amusement that our biggest issue is too much food and too little walking, as infomercials try to sells us the magic medicine and machine. While researching this I realized if we could reach these people with the gospel God would be their Father and take care of them. Really, it has always worked that way. The spiritual before the social is the way it works. Start praying, now. I have more to share later. Br.L