FLASH UPDATE:
As of March 7, 2008, FTN has shipped two containers with over 87,000 pounds of food, planting seed and supplies. Zimbabwe desperately needs additional food. We need your continued support to make this happen.
ZIMBABWE
URGENT NEED
DON'T STOP! Please read the entire article. The future of Zimbabwe depends upon it.
The nation of Zimbabwe urgently needs our prayers and help. I have been receiving calls, e-mails and visits regarding the humanitarian disaster in this country. All reports say that millions of people are fleeing Zimbabwe in mass exodus to South Africa and surrounding nations, hoping to find a means to survive the economic downfall of the country! Of the nation's 12 million people, 3 million could face starvation in the next few months.
Zimbabwe has the world's highest inflation rate of over 11,000 percent with an 80 percent unemployment rate. Those who do work receive an average of a dollar a day wages - only enough to buy two loaves of bread a day.
The country hurtles towards economic and social collapse as hyperinflation leaves 60 percent of all store shelves empty. Prices rise so rapidly that when food can be found at a store, the price increases from the time it is taken from the shelf to the register! Rice, beef, chicken, cooking oil, and sugar are almost impossible to find. In desperation, people have scavenged the land for animals and plant roots, causing even those makeshift meals to become scarce.
Time is running out. If we cannot help, then God needs to forgive us if the nation of Zimbabwe has not crossed our lips at least in prayer. Matthew 25:40 tells us, "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me." Now is the time to act on behalf of the least of these.
A hard message, yes - I could barely believe the startling facts that a Christian brother from Zimbabwe gave me as he stood before me on behalf of the people of Zimbabwe, trying to save the lives of his own Christian sisters and brothers. Those lives will soon end without our help because as of 2006, Zimbabwe has the lowest life expectancy in the world with just 35 years for men and 34 for women.
We can not shut our eyes and ears to their desperate cries for help. In the movie, "Schindler's List" and during the time of the holocaust, people were ambivalent to the horror that was going on around them. Schindler did everything he could to keep on trying to save one more - to give one more family hope. He did not stop as long as there was one more out there that was in his ability to save.
Having just learned of the dire circumstances, Feeding The Nations has stepped up to help. Working with Logos Rhema Ministry International and through their feeding program, the Joseph Project, in Harare, Zimbabwe, we are urgently assembling supplies to send to this nation. We have no time to spare and we must act quickly so the lives of many may be spared.
Your gift to Feeding The Nations will provide the following:
$25.00 - 85 pounds of food
$50.00 - 170 pounds of food
$100.00 - 344 pounds of food
$250.00 - 850 pounds of food
Or more
We need your help, plain and simple. Will you prayerfully consider what God would have you do to help reach these people as soon as possible?