Take a minute to feed your soul and impact your world!
Toma un minuto para alimentar tu alma e impactar tu mundo!

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PARA COMER ~ FOOD FOR THE SOUL

I was hungry and you gave me something to eat…34,000 children die every day of hunger and preventable diseases. That's 24 a minute. Real children with names, dreams, hopes, kids who never see adulthood because they struggle with hunger.

Christians today have a total annual income of over $10 trillion dollars. And it's estimated, the cost to feed the world annually is only $30 to $40 billion dollars.

I was thirsty and you gave me a drink…1.1 billion People in our world lack access to clean water. In most developed countries, if you want an abundant, clean water supply of water, you just turn your faucet on. But in other countries people often travel, walk half a day or more just to fill a jug of water.

I was a stranger and you invited me in…The U.S. Committee for Refugees estimates that there are 13.6 million or more refugees in dire need of protection and provisions. There are at least 200 million street children (orphans) in the world today! This is almost as many people that live in the United States.

I was naked and you clothed me…Thousands around the world are killed each year and left homeless because of hurricanes, earthquakes, drought, and floods. As a nation we just experienced what happens frequently around the world. And most of these people are left with nothing, no clothes, no material possession and recovery from a disaster can take years.

I was sick and you cared for me…Millions of people die every year from infection and parasitic diseases we know how to prevent. The most common diseases are typhoid, cholera, tuberculosis, pneumonia, measles, smallpox, chicken pox - preventable in many countries and a killer in others.

I was in prison and you came to visit me…More Christians are persecuted and martyred for their faith in this century than all previous centuries combined.

And how can they hear without someone preaching to them…Over two billion people in the world claim to be Christians but 4.5 billion have not heard or made a decision to follow Jesus Christ. There are still billions of people who don't know Jesus and thousands of people die a day without ever hearing of the love of Jesus Christ.

When we respond to human need, or fail to respond, we are in fact responding or failing to respond to Jesus Christ. The bottom line, what we really believe in, we do. If we love Jesus and follow him we serve him by serving others, by meeting the needs of others. Everything else is just religious rhetoric-James said in chapter 2:14-17, "What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead."

Words mean nothing, actions speak louder than words…serving others, meeting peoples' needs-physical and spiritual is the lifestyle of a follower of Jesus Christ.…God never intended for believers to sit idle in church or on campus while others struggle just to survive physically and spiritually.

Jesus said, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

Pastor Alex Garcia

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PARA LLEVAR - IMPACT YOUR WORLD          

What are some ways your Destino movement or Bible study can serve those on your campus & or in your community?

Here’s a list of 10 things that may spark some ideas in your local group:

1. Become a mentor or tutor to young kids in your community. How? Go to the school and ask in the admin. office how you can help. Or check to see if there are local groups that organize volunteers to the schools with the biggest needs.

2. Invite international students on your campus over for dinner – they rarely get to see inside American’s homes.

3. Take a group to the hard hit places from Hurricane Katrina – check with local churches for groups going.

4. Do a clothing/food drive on your campus to collect for those in need from the Hurricane or those in your community.

5. Take out student’s trash in the dorms for a semester.

6. Have a prayer table up on campus – take prayer requests, pray for people and see how you can minister further to people in need.

7. Visit a children’s floor in a hospital and put on a puppet show or other ways you can encourage the kids.

8. Volunteer for a Global Aid Network (formally Operation Carelift) project with a group from your campus. http://www.gainusa.org/

9. Visit a Cancer center in your area and see how your group can volunteer to help encourage cancer patients in treatment.

10. If you aren’t already involved…see how you can serve in some area of your local Destino ministry & or church with the talents the Lord has given you. If you’d like to start a Destino movement, email us back…we’ll help you.

Serving brings glory to God and may give you an opportunity to share about the hope you have within you.

Imagine the impact and glory to God if all of us took some time to serve others in some way this semester!

WHATS NEW?:

Updates to www.DestinoMovement.com

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