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AFRICA
ASIA
LATIN AMERICA
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Congo, Africa The beautiful sunset over large expanses of water greeted me as I flipped open the airplane shade. We were home! The sights, sounds and smells of Africa seemed like a million years away. Just recently I had received an E-mail from a friend in Boston. The result of meeting her and hearing about the needs of thousands of hungry children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formally Zaire, had motivated us to ship a container with 40,000 lbs of food to that particular region. As she is a local now living in the USA, she made a special trip back to the Congo to oversee the distribution of the food we had sent. Unfortunately due to the many complications associated with shipping food to Africa, the container did not arrive until she had left the country. This is some of her story…."the crisis is rampant, children are dying everyday, many of the kids are paralyzed, cannot use their legs due to malnutrition and lack of medical treatment. Africa is being destroyed by AIDS, hunger, and war. There are teams of teachers and trainers who are going to schools, the work place, communities, villages, etc. They call young people to purity and chastity, they call the rest of the people to only having one partner. The only problem is they have no finances to help them get to these places." She goes on to say…."I somehow know that God has positioned you at this time as Joseph who went before his brothers in Egypt, just to be able to rescue them during a bad time." Dear supporters, how we wish this could be true. We would love nothing more than to be able to feed, clothe, bathe, and rescue every hurting and dying person. All we can do though is what God allows and enables us to do through you. We know Africa's needs are never ending but we still feel constrained to answer the pleas we receive for help.
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