60 Minute Lunch Break

Here are some staggering stats that I ran across today.  While enjoying that tasty fast-food meal during your 60-minute lunch break, here's what took place around God's globe:

2,738 people died from starvation

342 people died from malaria

76 mothers died from childbirth issues

9,582 babies died from induced abortion

8,898 infants and children were abandoned

4,650 rural poor people migrated to cities

2,088,751,996 personal income was earned by church members

2,737,851 was given to global foreign missions (about .01 % of church member's income

2,966,005 was embezzled by trusted church leaders (nearly 250 thousand more than was given to global foreign missions)

20 Christians were martyred

Kinda puts the rest of my life in perspective.  We have a great task, and a greater God.

From Mission Maker magazine 2009