God's World

Consider, please, these staggering statistics (many of them were new to me!!):

*The USA is only 4.5% of the world's population. We are NOT the epi-center of the universe....there's a whole other world out there and it's BIG!
*The USA consumes over 30% of the world's resources.   
*In Africa, the average annual income of a "blue-collar" (middle-class) worker is $350/year.  That is LESS THAN $1 a day!
*Africans are not alone...1.2 billion people live on less than a dollar a day and 2 billion others live on less than $2 a day.
*If you earn $10,000/year you are earning more than 84% of the world.
*If you earn$50,000/year you are earning more than 99% of the world
*Pets in America receive better medical care, more food, and access to clean water than 95% of the children around the world.
*55 countries with almost 1 billion people do not have access to safe water.
*1 out of 6 human beings do not have access to any form of health care.
*Only 30% of females in the developing world (3rd world countries) receive any level of education
*over 250 milion children will be working instead of being in school
*30% of the world's population is under the age of 15
*Preventable diseases kill more people every year than natual disasters
*Each night over 800 million people goto bed hungry (most of them women and children)
*Over 11 million children under 5 years die every year from preventable causes
*Women are 70% of the world's poor and two-thirds of the world's illiterate
*There is enough food produced in the world to feed everyone!!!!!
*As many people in the western world (that's us in USA) are now malnourished from eating too much of the wrong things (unhealthy junk food) as are undernourished in the developing world (3rd world) from not getting enough to eat at all!!!
*15 children die every minute.
*Over 22,000 children die worldwide every single day.
*About 8 million children die every year.
*More than 1 billion children do not have access to one or more of the basic necessities of life and 90 percent of these children suffer from long-term malnourishment and micro-nutrient deficiencies.
*About 2.5 million children die every year because they are not immunized.
*Only 57% of African children are enrolled in primary education, and one in three of those does not complete school. For the price of one missile, a school of hungry children could eat lunch every single day for the next 5 years.

All the above statistics were taken from the following:
*"Exploring World Mission", a book by Bryant L. Myers (published by World Vision)
*"Radical", a book by David Platt
*UNICEF website
*"Through Their Eyes" artical on cozay.com