Send A Better World

There are 140 nations in the world who watch the United States and listen for our weather reports and harvest predictions with almost more interest than we do. Because, whether they survive through another year, depends upon what happens in the richest food belt in the world!

Two‑thirds of the world's family is hungry all the time. Lack of food and malnutrition causes children to grow up mentally retarded! This is the bleak story coming out of our troubled world. And we, on this planet earth are doing very little about it...spending over $400 billion for militarism each year, and not over $5 billion to overcome mankind's most threatening problem.

Gift buying can create problems...or it can be a moment of promise! A tie for Uncle George or new dishes for the newly‑weds tell them at special times that we remember them and love them. Why not send something everybody can use? Send them a better world! Rather than a frying pan or fancy bed sheets, send them life for a starving child in Asia, education for a promising youth in India, a better community for a family in an urban slum. Send them a better world!

Next time Aunt Mabel has a birthday, why not send her a card saying you are sending her a better world by your gift of $10 to take care of a child for one month in India. Or, when you begin to make out your Christmas list, why not simplify it by sending cards to three different persons, saying you have sent $10 apiece in their names to buy farm machinery on the island of Sumatra to help raise food for the hungry.

Wouldn't your friends appreciate the gift of a better world? We like to send flowers now and then...why not "say it with flour?" "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me", (Matt. 25:40) said Jesus.