Dirt is all we have to eat.

by Jim on 15 February 2008

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Feeding the hungry.  Helping the sick.  These posts – some almost unbelievable – scream out the question – how can we help?

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  • The Bad With the GoodAs I took the taxi home last night, I realized that I had just witnessed not a few of Ghana’s social problems in one toxic pot. We have a depressed father, out of work, without money to care for his family. We have a mother with five hungry children. She is doing what she can to provide for her family, which isn’t ever enough, and feeling like Isaac’s a burden, even a curse to their family…
  • displaced - I’ve been to a few of these camps over the years. In Congo, hidden in the lush green of the Ituri forrest. The smell of smoke and palm oil and humanity numbering tens of thousands. In Sudan; humid, naked, dark. In Mozambique; wet. All of them hungry.
  • Back to the Blog…a Sunday to noteShe’s been sick for some time and really should have been in bed all week but while raising a family alone she has mouths to feed and rent and bills to pay and missed work means going hungry and maybe losing their small apartment…
  • Ebola wrapping up . . .Two six year old kids on the ward with severe malnutrition, peeling skin and puffy eyes and the listless faces of the hungry. But there are joys too…
  • Feeding Starving ChildrenThey get volunteers to come in and pack food for children throughout the world who need it. They even go to churches and get the entire church involved in “hands on ministry” to pack food…
  • My hero… my sister“Hungry, will work for food.” What is your first thought when you see someone holding a sign like this on the street? Homeless? Dirty? Worthless? or Friend?
  • haiti update – february 1, 2008Food prices are continuing to rise and people are asking the Haitian government to help bring food prices down. There is not much the government can do to control the inflation. It is difficult for parents to hear hungry children crying so they give them “dirt cookies”…
  • How to Prove God ExistsShe told us that for 76 years she did not know if God existed or not, but that today she knew. She was convinced of God’s existence and goodness by…

Hungry child

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