High fuel cost not only effects us

I Read the below article just days before receiving a call from my dear friend Pamela about how her family and so many others are struggling in Kenya/Uganda due to higher fuel cost, making food cost sky rocket, then was at my cousins talking and inquiring about her sister-in-law and fam... who are Missionaries in Guinea and how rice went from being 2.00 a bag to over 5.00. It made me stop and think of how I complain about what it's done to my families budget......then I think about what it does to a family who has no budget...due to already having no money. I urge you to read the article and prayerfully seek the Lords will in how you may be of help to these poverty stricken people who are now even more stricken.


Africa food crisis worsens
Africa (MNN) -- "It is actually getting worse." That's Jacob Kramer with the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee talking about the global food crisis in East Africa. War, missed planting seasons, drought, flooding, and high fuel costs are all reasons for the crisis. In some places, food prices have increased 500-percent. All of this means more pressure on aid groups like CRWRC. "At this moment we are looking at 250,000 people in Ethiopia and Uganda and Kenya who are being help by us on a daily basis today. So, you are looking at about tripling the number of cases." An estimated 9 to 13 million people in the region are desperate. This has put great financial pressure on the CRWRC, and you can help. Answering the financial call is an answer to prayer. Also, Kramer says, "That gives us as northern Christians an enormous opportunity to witness to our brothers and sisters and the whole world out there." Go to our website to help.
Full story: http://www.MNNonline.org/article/11483

I am going to be sending over some money to help with Pamela and her family in Kenya; if you would also like to donate please contact me via email. (hope.4.africa@hotmail.com) I would like to have all monies collected by next week. And remember even the littliest amount goes so far in Africa.....

"He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and He will reward him for what he has done" 2 Cor. 9:9