For You have been a strength to the poor, A strength to the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, A shade from the heat; For the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. Isaiah 25:4

Global food crisis ‘silent tsunami’ threatening over 100 million people, warns UN
(*from the United Nations News Centere)

22 April 2008 – The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today called for urgent action to tackle the “silent tsunami” of rising food prices which threatens to push more than 100 million people worldwide into hunger.

“This is the new face of hunger – the millions of people who were not in the urgent hunger category six months ago but now are, ” said WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran...

She said...the food price crisis – the biggest challenge WFP has faced in its 45-year history – requires a global response.

“The response calls for large-scale, high-level action by the global community, focused on emergency and longer-term solutions, ” she added.

’Silent Tsunami’: The Food Price Crisis--Millions of People Worldwide Face Starvation Because of Rising Food Prices
(abc WORLD NEWS with Charles Gibson)

"There is no doubt that there is enough food in the world to feed the global population...It’s access to that food that’s the real issue, it’s people who are going to shops, going to markets in the poorer countries, finding that they can’t afford to buy food. Frustration is building."

That is why...that perfect storm is continuing to grow.

World Food Program warns of ’silent tsunami’ of hunger
(*The Associated Press)

A "silent tsunami" of hunger is sweeping the world’s most desperate nations, said Josette Sheeran, the WFP’s executive director, speaking Tuesday at a London summit on the crisis.

The skyrocketing cost of food staples...rising fuel prices, unpredictable weather...

The price of rice has more than doubled in the last five weeks...

"Tackling hunger is a moral challenge to each of us..."

"Now is not too soon to be thinking about the longer-term solutions..."

Assessing the global food crisis
(*BBC News)

"A silent tsunami which knows no borders sweeping the world".

That is how the head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) summed up the global food shortages…It is certainly a storm that has hit with little warning and has plunged an extra 100 million people into poverty.

The crisis has triggered riots in Haiti, Cameroon, Indonesia and Egypt and is deemed a dangerous threat to stability.

The WFP’s biggest concern is for the people living on 50 cents a day who have nothing to fall back on.

We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father… 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3

These Things…

These things; this storm, should not concern us—God is bigger than any tsunami. What should concern us is if the church; the Body of Christ is going to be obedient to the will of the Father. Rescue will come when those who consider themselves to be blessed by God will desire to become a blessing to others in desperate need.

Be a Blessing to One Child



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