God’s love embraces people living with poverty, hunger and HIV/AIDS

Ryan White –

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so should God’s people. God’s love embraces people living with poverty, hunger and HIV/AIDS

You have

By giving to this year’s WORLD HUNGER CAMPAIGN 2006 KEEP THE PROMISE

THANK YOU.

Christian Reformed World Relief Committee continue to Your love and generosity helps the

care for the sick

break down the stigma

teach AIDS-inflicted communities the importance of good nutrition and how to grow nutritious food

get orphans in school

spread awareness

help adoptive parents earn more to care for orphans.

“Learn to do good. Work for justice. Help the down-and-out. Stand up for the homeless. Go to bat for the defenseless.” – Isaiah 1:17, The Message

Don’t be immobilized by AIDS

You CAN continue to make a difference.

PRAY

Pray for the hungry who suffer with HIV/AIDS. Pray for a break down of the stigma. Pray for how you can best serve those with HIV/AIDS.

“We don’t have to guess what’s on God’s mind here. It bewilders me that anyone can call themselves followers of Christ and not see that AIDS is the leprosy spoken about in the New Testament. God is at work here.” –Bono, lead singer of U2 and global advocate to end HIV/AIDS in Africa

GIVE

Continue your support for HIV/AIDS beyond World Hunger Give to CRWRC’s Keep the Promise campaign.

Help a family in an AIDS-affected area by becoming a Free A Family ™ sponsor

"Africa has great sophistication in its ability to deal with the myriad of issues connected to AIDS. It's not a lack of knowledge on their part — it is a lack of resources." – Stephen Lewis, special envoy to the UN for HIV/AIDS in Africa

SPEAK UP

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Credit: World Vision, Australia

Send a letter to your federal representative asking for a bold national commitment to ending the AIDS crisis. Visit

“Silence is not an option. Nor is inaction. Injustice and suffering demand our advocacy in a world that desperately needs people of faith creatively working together for change.” - Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance

KNOW MORE

ASSUME LESS

“My experience is that there's corruption everywhere: in the U.S., in Europe, in Asia, and in Africa… But what happens is that everyone's wringing their hands about corruption without trying to solve practical problems…

And right now, we're not even helping the well-governed places, the places where we are capable of finding absolutely practical and effective approaches to turning help into real success on the ground.” - Jeffrey Sachs, world’s leading economist and author of The End of Poverty

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY

Invite a CRWRC staff person to speak to your church about hunger and HIV/AIDS

Take a Discovery Tour to see CRWRC’s ongoing work firsthand.

KEEP THE PROMISE WORLD HUNGER CAMPAIGN 2006 CONTINUE TO

And embrace those with HIV/AIDS as God has embraced you.

“We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing when people are dying.” - Nelson Mandela

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