That number is equivalent to the populations of New York, Paris, and Bangkok, combined.
"I believe that this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation. I look at my parents and ask, where were they during the civil rights movement? I look at my grandparents and ask, what were they doing when the holocaust in Europe was occurring with regard to the Jews, and why didn't they speak up? And when we think of our great, great, great-grandparents, we think how could they have sat by and allowed slavery to exist? And I believe that our children and their children, 40 or 50 years from now, are going to ask me, what did you do while 40 million children became orphans in Africa?"
--Rich Stearns, President of World Vision
5 comments:
jana, thanks for posting this as well as a link to the other blog. Such a good post she wrote! I didn't know today was world AIDS orphan day. I feel like a shallow schmuck for posting a shallow blog today.
I'm using if you don't mind- really good information to get out there.
Thanks!
Jana,
Thank you so much for this. Heart wrenching...and that's just the clip you posted. :)
I will follow the link and hope you don't mind if I reference it from our blog also.
Hope you 3 are well...
Ashleigh
Sobering!
Jana, Did you read Richard Stearns book, The Hole in Our Gospel? I just happened into it, I'm reading it now. It's very very good.
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