Thursday, July 28, 2011

Famine in the Horn of Africa

One of my favorite blog writers noted that a few years ago, he heard of a crisis in Africa, and bought a plane ticket and simply "went there." He felt that the alternative, of doing nothing, was insufficient. I have to believe that he was following the Lord's leading in his heart when he did so.

Which brings me to today's news story that Kenya is opening a NEW refugee center for the starving people of Somalia that will house 150000 people. They have 4 centers that already house nearly 200,000 each. This boggles my mind. That is more than the population of Painesville, Madison, Ashtabula, and Mentor COMBINED. A sea of faces filled my mind's eye as I thought of the countless starving and hungry who would be open to hearing the Gospel.

I even checked the air-fares online.