Despite the risks, women and children in developing countries invest two hundred million hours a day fetching water. 12 That’s equal to a full-time workforce of twenty-five million people fetching water eight hours a day, seven days a week! The men, as unremittingly ill as their wives and children, become less productive in their work, often reducing the agricultural output and food supply of the whole community. Those whose immune systems have been weakened by AIDS or tuberculosis are further ravaged by waterborne illnesses, and it is estimated that as many as one-half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by people with a water-related illness. ~ Richard Stearns, The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? (This, like hunger and unemployment, is a problem that we, the people of Jehovah, can help resolve, one that is not that expensive or complicated. We can continue to wring our hands or we can pray harder and put feet to our prayers. If we are truly blessed to be a blessing, if God has blessed the children of Abraham -us- so that He can bless the nations through us, then we need to act now. - Dusty)
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:12:30 +0000
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