Multiply the number of poor and disenfranchised that are in your community by millions and you will have a more accurate picture of our world. Today, well over a billion people in the world are deprived of what they need to meet their basic needs. Far more lack clean water, adequate sanitation, housing, or health services. They use whatever limited options are available to them in their daily struggle to survive.
Thousands die daily.
Children often have no option but to labor under unjust conditions to provide for themselves and their families. Political struggles, militarism, and warfare add to this travesty displacing masses of people from their homes. We tend to view economic life by how it affects us personally. The cross of Christ challenges Christians to view this arena through the experience of those of us who are impoverished, suffering, broken, betrayed, left out without hope. Commit your congregation to look at the public policy issues that are a part of the social services you support.