::only 8%::

"The truth is that there are children...all over the world,sick, starving, dying, unloved, and uncared for. 

The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases and the 8.5 million who work as child slaves, prostitutes, or under other horrific conditions and the 2.3 million who live with HIV add up to 164.8 million needy children.  And though at first glance that looks like a big number, *2.1 billion people on this earth proclaim to be Christians. 

The truth is that if only 8 percent of the [professing] Christians would care for one more child, there would not be any statistics left.

This is the Truth. I have the freedom to believe it.  The freedom, the opportunity to do something about it.  The truth is that He loves these children just as much as He loves me and now that I know, I am responsible."


-Katie Davis, Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption, pgs. 91-92.

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*We all realize "professing" Christians does not mean true, regenerate followers of Christ.  But even if you cut that number in HALF, the percentage of people needed to care for one child is still a mere fraction of the total number of believers in Christ. 
Now you know. 
Now I know. 
Now we are responsible.