Americans throw away enough food in a year to feed over 50,000,000 people. Besides education we can change some of our own eating habits, or at least think about them. One of the best ways to stay thin and healthy and maintain empathy with the world's needy is to make a practice of eating one helping and never eating between meals. We should think hard about how often we eat out since you can usually eat for several days on what you pay for one meal at a restaurant. If fasting was ever in order it is today.
Prayer is enlivened and deepened by fasting.
Fasting unites us to God in the dependence of hunger and it unites us to Uganda in the fellowship of hunger. And so our love and our prayers are more fervent and effectual. Some of you should go . Any inclination you have, young or old, to cut loose and fly into an adventure with God should be pursued. There are opportunities for all kinds of professions as well as the traditional missionary.