Randy Alcorn's Blog: poverty

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Mon, Nov 02, 2009
Randy Alcorn
Missions
action international, children, doug nichols, giving, missions, money, orphans, poverty, sex slave industry, street children, world missions

Children in Crisis Worldwide

Earlier this year, my friend Doug Nichols, founder and director of ACTION International Ministries, a great missions organization, sent these humbling statistics about needy children worldwide. As you and I pray and consider what to do with our lives and resources, I hope God will use these facts to touch our hearts. (By the way, this Sunday, November 8, is Orphan Sunday, an opportunity to rouse your church, community and friends to God’s call to care for the orphan. Learn more at www.orphansunday.org)

HIV/AIDS and Disease

Over 38 million people live with HIV/AIDS worldwide, with ...

Wed, Oct 10, 2012
Randy Alcorn
Politics
2012, barack obama, conservative, democrat, election, liberal, martin luther king, mitt romney, national debt, politics, poor, poverty, president, republican, robert f. kennedy, tax revenues

Election 2012, Part 1: Racial Issues, Helping the Poor and Financial Responsibility

Obama and Romney I have postponed writing about this election because I feel at a loss as to what to say or how best to say it. Reluctantly, now that the election is only four weeks away, I’ve decided to give it a try. (I may regret it, and you may too.)

Wed, Jan 02, 2013
Randy Alcorn
Missions
clean water, diseases, drinking, gospel, missions, poverty, sanitation, the least of these, video

The Least of These: Those without Clean Water and Sanitation

Girl drinking In today’s blog we ask the question again: how can we as Christians help the most vulnerable people in the world? (See my previous blogs in the series we’re calling The Least of These.) This post focuses on those who lack access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation.